SERMON III.
THE FIRST COMMANDMENT: SPIRITUAL SENSE.
"I am Jehovah, thy God, who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of servants. Thou shalt not have other gods before my face. Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven thing, nor any likeness of anything which is in the heavens above, or which is in the earth beneath, or which is in the waters under the earth: thou shalt not bow thyself down to them nor serve them. For I, Jehovah, thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons, upon the thirds and upon the fourths with those that hate me, and showing mercy, to thousands, with those that love me and keep my commandments."—Exodus xx. 2—6.
Having given, in the previous discourse, a general view of this Commandment in its literal sense, I now proceed to consider it in its internal or spiritual sense.
"The spiritual sense of this Commandment," says the Doctrine of the New Church, "is, that no other God than the Lord Jesus Christ is to be worshiped; for he is Jehovah, who came into the world and effected the redemption, without which neither man nor angel could have been saved. All who acknowledge and worship any other God than the Lord the Savior, Jesus Christ, who is Himself Jehovah God in the human form, sin against this Commandment. So also do those who per-
