173. (v. 25) Nevertheless, that which ye have, hold fast until I come. That this signifies continuance in a state of the good even to visitation is evident from the signification of that which ye have, hold fast, as denoting to continue in a state of love and faith, thus in a state of conjunction of the external with the internal, in which they are capable of being so far as they resist the delights of the loves of self and of the world. For in proportion as man removes those delights from himself, in the same proportion the internal is conjoined with the external, thus more in one and less in another; and from the signification of until I come, as denoting visitation (concerning, which see above, n. 144).