10617. 'And proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah, God, merciful and gracious' means the Divine itself, the Divine Human, and the Divine proceeding, the Source of everything good. This is clear from the meaning of 'proclaiming Jehovah' as worship of the Lord, dealt with in 440, 2724, whose Divinity consists in the Trinity of the Divine itself (called the Father), the Divine Human (called the Son), and the Divine proceeding (called the Holy Spirit), which explains the occurrence of the declaration here 'Jehovah, Jehovah, God' (the reason why 'Jehovah, Jehovah' refers to the Divine itself or the Father and to the Divine Human or the Son, while 'God' refers to the Divine proceeding, is that in respect of the Divine itself and the Divine Human the Lord is Divine Good, while in respect of the Divine proceeding He is Divine Truth; and this is why in references in the Word to Divine Good the Lord is called Jehovah, and in references to Divine Truth He is called God, see 2769, 2807, 2822, 3921(end), 4402, 9167, 10158); and from the meaning of 'merciful and gracious' as His being the Source of everything good. For 'showing mercy' means endowing with celestial good, and 'being gracious' endowing with spiritual good, both of which are dealt with in 10577. What celestial good is and what spiritual good is, see again in 10577.