1023、“我，看哪，我要坚立我的约”表示主在仁爱中的同在，这从前面（666节）所论述的“约”的含义清楚可知。那里说明，“约”表示重生，尤表主通过爱与重生之人的结合；那里还说明，天堂的婚姻是真正的约本身，因此天堂的婚姻与每一个重生之人同在。该婚姻或约的性质也在前面（155，162，252节）说明。
对上古教会成员来说，天堂的婚姻存在于他自己的意愿部分；而对古教会成员来说，天堂的婚姻则在他自己的理解力部分产生。事实上，当人心智的意愿部分全然败坏时，主就以奇迹般的方式将他自己的理解力部分与已败坏的意愿部分分离，并在他自己的理解力部分里面形成一个新意愿，也就是良心。主将仁爱注入良心，将纯真注入仁爱，以这种方式与人结合，或也可说，与他立约。
人自己的意愿部分能与这理解力部分分离到何等程度，主就能与他同在，也就是与他结合，或与他立约到何等程度。试探和类似的重生手段会使人自己的意愿部分变得不活跃，以至于似乎消失，可以说死去。在这种事发生的程度内，主能通过植入人自己的理解力部分的良心在仁爱里面运作。这就是此处所说的“约”。
New Century Edition
Cooper(2008,2013)
[NCE]1023. The symbolism of And I — yes, I — am setting up my pact as the presence of the Lord in charity can be seen from the symbolism of a pact, given in [665,] 666. That section showed that a pact symbolizes rebirth, and more especially the Lord's close connection with a regenerate person through love. It also showed that the heavenly marriage is the most genuine compact, and in consequence that the heavenly marriage inside everyone who has regenerated is such a covenant too.
The nature of this marriage — this covenant — has also been shown before [155, 162, 252].
[2] For the people of the earliest church, the heavenly marriage existed within the sensation that they had their own power of will. For the people of the ancient church, however, the heavenly marriage developed within the sensation that their power of understanding was their own. When the human race's willpower had become thoroughly corrupt, you see, the Lord split our intellectual sense of self off from that corrupted voluntary sense of self in a miraculous way. Within our intellectual selfhood he formed a new will, which is conscience, and into conscience he injected charity, and into charity innocence. In this way he joined himself to us or, to put it another way, entered into a compact with us.
[3] To the extent that our self-will can be detached from this sense of intellectual autonomy, the Lord can be present with us, or bind himself to us, or enter into a pact with us.
Times of trial and other similar means of regeneration suppress our self-will to the point where it seems to disappear and almost die out. To the extent that this happens, the Lord can work through the conscience implanted in charity within our intellectual selfhood. This, then, is what is being called a pact in the present verse.
Potts(1905-1910) 1023
1023. And I, behold, I establish My covenant. That this signifies the presence of the Lord in charity, is evident from the signification of "covenant" as shown above (n. 666), where it was shown that a "covenant" signifies regeneration, and indeed the conjunction of the Lord with the regenerate man by love; and that the heavenly marriage is that veriest covenant itself, and consequently so is the heavenly marriage with every regenerate man. This marriage or covenant has been treated of before. With the man of the Most Ancient Church the heavenly marriage was in the Own of his will part, but with the man of the Ancient Church the heavenly marriage was effected in the Own of his intellectual part. For when man's will part had become wholly corrupt, the Lord miraculously separated the Own of his intellectual part from that corrupt Own of his will part, and in the Own of his intellectual part He formed a new will, which is conscience, and into the conscience insinuated charity, and into the charity innocence, and thus conjoined Himself with man, or what is the same, made a covenant with him. So far as the Own of man's will part can be separated from this Own of the intellectual part, the Lord can be present with him, or conjoin Himself, or enter into a covenant with him. Temptations and the like means of regeneration cause the Own of man's will part to be quiescent, to become as nothing, and as it were to die. So far as this is done the Lord through conscience implanted in the Own of man's intellectual part can work in charity. And this is what is here called a "covenant."
Elliott(1983-1999) 1023
1023. That 'and I, behold I am establishing My covenant' means the Lord's presence in charity becomes clear from the meaning of 'a covenant', dealt with in 666, where it was shown that 'a covenant' means regeneration, and in particular the conjunction of the Lord with a regenerate person by means of love. It was also shown there that the heavenly marriage is the actual covenant itself, and that consequently the heavenly marriage exists with every regenerate person. The nature of this marriage or covenant has also been shown already.
[2] The heavenly marriage with the member of the Most Ancient Church existed in the area of his own will, but the heavenly marriage with the member of the Ancient Church came into existence in the area of his own understanding. Actually when the will part of man's mind had become utterly corrupted, the Lord in miraculous fashion separated the area of his own understanding from that corrupted will part, and within the area of man's own understanding He formed a new will, which is conscience. Into conscience He infused charity, and into charity innocence, and in this manner joined Himself to man, or what amounts to the same, established a covenant with him.
[3] To the extent that the area of a person's own will can be separated from this understanding part the Lord is able to be present with him, that is, to join Himself or establish a covenant with him. Temptations and similar means of regeneration render inactive the area of a person's own will, so that it is reduced to nothing and so to speak dies. To the extent that this happens the Lord can operate within charity by means of conscience implanted in the area of a person's own understanding. This is what is called 'a covenant' here.
Latin(1748-1756) 1023
1023. 'Et Ego, ecce Ego erigo foedus Meum': quod significet Domini praesentiam in charitate, constare potest a significatione 'foederis,' de qua n. 666, ubi ostensum, quod foedus significet regenerationem, et quidem conjunctionem Domini cum homine regenerato per amorem; et quod conjugium caeleste sit ipsissimum foedus; proinde conjugium caeleste apud unumquemvis hominem regeneratum: quomodo hoc conjugium seu foedus se habet, prius quoque ostensum est; conjugium caeleste apud hominem Antiquissimae Ecclesiae luit in ejus proprio voluntario; [2] at conjugium caeleste apud hominem Antiquae Ecclesiae factum est in ejus proprio intellectuali; quando enim voluntarium hominis prorsus corruptum factum est, tunc Dominus miraculose separavit proprium ejus intellectuale a proprio isto corrupto voluntario, et in proprio ejus intellectuali formavit novam voluntatem, quae est conscientia, et conscientiae insinuavit charitatem, et charitati innocentiam, ac ita conjunxit se, seu quod idem est, iniit foedus, cum homine. [3] Quantum proprium voluntarium hominis separari potest a proprio hoc intellectuali, tantum Dominus praesens apud eum esse, seu se conjungere aut foedus inire cum eo, potest: tentationes et similia media regenerationis efficiunt ut proprium voluntarium hominis quiescat, sicut nullum fiat et quasi moriatur; quantum hoc, tantum Dominus per conscientiam proprio intellectuali hominis implantatam in charitate operari potest; hoc nunc est quod hic vocatur foedus.