'Behold, I send an angel before you' means the Lord's Divine Human. 'To keep you safe on the way' means His providence and protection from falsities arising from evil. 'To bring you to the place which I have prepared' means being brought into heaven by Him according to goodness of life and of faith. 'Take notice of his face' means holy fear. 'And hear his voice' means obedience to the commandments received from Him. 'Lest you provoke him' means turning away from Him through falsities arising from evil. 'For he will not bear your transgression' means because those falsities are repugnant to truths springing from good. 'For My name is in the middle of him' means that from Him comes all the good of love and truth of faith. 'For if you indeed hear his voice' means learning and accepting the commandments of faith. 'And do all that I speak' means an obedience springing from faith and love. 'I will act as enemy to your enemies' means that the Lord will turn away all falsities arising from evil. 'And will act as adversary to your adversaries' means that He will turn away all evils from which falsities arise. 'When My angel goes before you' means a life in keeping with the Lord's commandments. 'And brings you to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, and I cut them off' means when the Lord provides protection against the evils and falsities molesting the Church, and removes them. 'You shall not bow down to their gods' means that falsities arising from evil must not be worshipped. 'Nor serve them' means that neither must they be obeyed. 'Nor do according to their works' means that evils of life must not be pursued. 'For you shall utterly destroy them' means that evils must be completely removed. 'And completely break to pieces their pillars' means that the same must be done to falsities of worship. 'And you shall serve Jehovah your God' means worship of the Lord alone. 'And He will bless your bread and your water' means the increase of the good of love and of the truth of faith. 'And I will remove sickness from the midst of you' means protection from falsifications of truth and adulterations of good. 'None will suffer miscarriage or be barren in your land' means that forms of good and truths will develop in their proper order, in continuous progression. 'I will fulfill the number of your days' means all the way to a state of completeness. 'I will send My terror before you' means the terror felt, on account of truths springing from good, by those immersed in evils arising from falsity. 'And throw into confusion all the people' means the dismay of all falsities. 'To whom you come' means because of the Lord's presence. 'And I will make all your enemies turn their necks towards you' means the flight of falsities and their damnation. 'And I will send the hornet before you' means the dread felt by those who are steeped in falsities arising from evil. 'And it will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before you' means the flight of falsities arising from evils. 'I will not drive them out from before you in one year' means no hurried flight or removal of them. 'Lest perhaps the land becomes desolate' means a deficiency in that case, and little spiritual life. 'And the wild animal of the field multiplies against you' means an inrush of falsities arising from the delights of self-love and love of the world. 'Little by little I will drive them out from before you' means a removal effected gradually according to order. 'Until you become fruitful' means in keeping with the increase of good. 'And inherit the land' means when governed by good, thus when regenerated.

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