9815. 'For glorious adornment' means in order to display Divine Truth as it exists in its inward form and its outward form in the spiritual kingdom lying adjacent to the celestial kingdom. This is clear from the meaning of 'glory' as Divine Truth, dealt with in the Preface to Genesis 18, and in 5922, 9429; and from the meaning of 'adornment' too as Divine Truth, but as it exists in its outward form. For the splendour and beauty of Divine Truth as they appear in outward things are meant by 'adornment'. So it is that the Word as to its internal sense is described as 'glory', but as to its external sense, in respect of the splendour and beauty which the internal imparts to it, is described as 'adornment'. Consequently the spiritual heaven, meant here by the holy garments that were 'for glorious adornment', is the glory, insofar as Divine Truth in its inward form is present there; and it is the adornment too, insofar as Divine Truth in its outward form is also present there.
[2] Something similar is meant by 'adornment' in the following places: In Jeremiah,
In His anger the Lord covers the daughter of Zion with a cloud. He has cast down from heaven to earth the adornment of Israel, and does not remember His footstool. Lam 2:1.
'The daughter of Zion' stands for the celestial Church, 'the adornment of Israel' for the spiritual Church, which is called 'the adornment' by virtue of the splendour and beauty of truth. Something similar occurs in Isaiah,
I have caused My righteousness to draw near, it is not far off, and My salvation will not delay. I will give salvation in Zion, My adornment to Israel. Isa 46:13.
In the same prophet,
Look out from heaven, from the dwelling-place of Your holiness and of Your adornment. Isa 63:15.
'The dwelling-place of holiness' stands for the celestial kingdom, and 'the dwelling-place of adornment' for the spiritual kingdom. In Daniel,
There came out one small-sized horn, and it grew exceedingly towards the south, and towards the east, and towards the adornment.a Dan 8:9.
And elsewhere in the same prophet,
The king of the north too will stand in the land of adornmenta with destruction in his hand;b and when he comes into the land of adornmenta many will collapse. Dan 11:16, 41.
'The land of adornment' stands for the Lord's Church where God's truth or the Word is.
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