People may say the Bible is holy, but that does not make it so. People might say that it is holy because it was written by God and so is the Word of God. Take it a bit further, though. If God Himself dictated His Word, then there must be something about it that is holy. What God dictates has to be special, very special, in some way. There are some wonderful things said in the Word of course. There are, though. many things that seem so ordinary, and, in some cases, completely irrelevant to the reader of today. There are accounts of battles. Quite a lot of space is devoted to the result of a census taken of the tribes of Israel. There are many other examples. Why is God dictating such things? Why are they holy? And they surely must be holy if they are part of God’s Holy Word. Let’s quote something from the very beginning of the very first theological book published by Swedenborg.
“From the mere letter of the Word of the Old Testament no one would ever discern the fact that this part of the Word contains deep secrets of heaven, and that everything within it both in general and in particular bears reference to the Lord, to His heaven, to the church, to religious belief, and to all things connected therewith; for from the letter or sense of the letter all that anyone can see is that-to speak generally-everything therein has reference merely to the external rites and ordinances of the Jewish Church. Yet the truth is that everywhere in that Word there are internal things which never appear at all in the external things except a very few which the Lord revealed and explained to the Apostles; such as that the sacrifices mean the Lord; that the land of Canaan and Jerusalem mean heaven,”
Heasvenly Secrets. #1