2663. 'God said to Abraham' means the Lord's perception from the Divine. This is clear from the meaning of 'saying' in historical parts of the Word as perceiving, often dealt with already. And since the perception came from the Divine the words 'God said to Abraham' occur here. Both of these - God and Abraham - are used to mean the Lord. The fact that historical descriptions which belong to the sense of the letter divide things into separate ideas, whereas the internal sense makes them one, is evident from the following considerations: In the historical sense of the letter two are described as talking to each other, namely God and Abraham; but in the internal sense there is only one, namely the Lord in respect to the Divine. From this it is also evident that those who are three in the sense of the letter are one in the internal sense, as it is with Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, who are not three Gods, but one God; and that the whole Trinity exists complete within the Lord, that is to say, the Father is within Him, as He Himself says, and that the Holy Spirit proceeds from Him, as again He Himself says.