The Foundation

How lovely upon the mountains are / the feet of the messengers who
proclaim peace : Who bring a good message : Who
reveal salvation : Who say to Zion : Your God is King : Your
watchmen cry aloud with their voice. Isaiah 52 v. 7.

I will create the fruit of the lips / which shall proclaim:
Peace / peace / both to those who are far and those who are near / says the
LORD : Cry with a full throat and do not hold back : Lift up
your voice like a trumpet / and proclaim to my people their
transgression. Isaiah 57 v. 19 and 58 v. 1.

Let your pictorial eyes original: "bildliche Augen"; this refers to the "eye of the senses" or the imagination, which creates mental images (pictures) of worldly things rather than perceiving spiritual truth directly.; which always look outside your human
essence; through God's essential light The word "essential" (wesentlich) is a technical term in radical pietism meaning something that belongs to the very "being" or "substance" of God, rather than being merely symbolic. become dark in their
sight / so that you may see into your human essence with the spiritual eyes of Christ : For there you will find God's
essential nature ; living or dead. Deuteronomy 30. 1 Corinthians
3:6. 2 Corinthians 6. Ephesians 3. 2 Thessalonians 1. Luke 17. Romans 10:15.
1 Timothy 3.

We are the circumcision who serve GOD in the Spirit :
and boast in JESUS Christ : and do not rely on flesh and
blood. Philippians 3 v. 3.

Hear / my people / my law / and bow the ear of your heart
to the speech of my mouth : I will open my mouth in parables /
and speak of ancient things / which our fathers have told
us / and are not hidden from their children who have come after
them : And proclaim the praise or glory and majesty
of the LORD / in his strength (power) and wonders
that He has done. He established a testimony in Jacob / and gave
a law in Israel / which He commanded our fathers to make
known to their children / so that the descendants might also know it :
And that also the children / who were yet to be born (when
they grew up) then should proclaim it again to their children /
so that they might set their hope in God and might not forget
the great deeds of God. Psalm 78.

The vocabulary below highlights the key concepts the author wishes the reader to focus on, emphasizing the continuity between the biblical Israel and the "internal" spiritual life of the believer.

Zion, Watchmen, Peace, Trumpet, Transgression, Human Essence, Spiritual Eyes of Christ, Circumcision, Jesus Christ, Jacob, Israel, Psalm 78