6402. 'I Wait for Your salvation, O Jehovah' means unless the Lord brings them aid. This is clear from the meaning here of 'waiting for salvation' as bringing aid, 'Jehovah' being the Lord, see 1343, 1736, 2156, 2329, 2447, 2921, 3023, 3035, 5663, 6303. As regards the aid that the Lord brings to those who are guided by truth but not as yet by good when they recede from truth - meant by 'the rider will fall backwards; I wait for Your salvation, O Jehovah' - it should be recognized that they are people who look downwards and outwards since they are not as yet guided by good. But those who are guided by good, as those who have been regenerated are, are ones who look upwards and inwards; for when a person is being regenerated order is turned around in the process.
[2] Since those who are guided by truth but not as yet by good look downwards and outwards they are also some of those who in the Grand Man belong to the province of the outward skin; for the outward skin looks outwards, away from the internal parts of the body, and the sense of touch is aroused by things on the outside of it. No such feeling is aroused from the inside. From this it is evident that these people are in the Lord's kingdom, since they are in the Grand Man, though in its last and outermost parts. Regarding those who constitute the skin, see 5552-5559.
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