2673. 'In the morning Abraham rose up early' means the Lord's clear perception from the Divine. This is clear from the meaning of 'morning' and of 'rising up in the early morning' as perceiving clearly, dealt with in 2540, where the same words occur, and from the representation of 'Abraham' as the Lord's Divine, often dealt with already. The Lord had a clear perception from the Divine regarding the state of His spiritual kingdom, that is to say, what those who belong to that kingdom or Church are like at the beginning, what they are like in the consecutive stages after that, and what they at length come to be like. For every one of their states is described exactly and completely in the internal sense of verses 13-21 of this chapter.