Monday, December 17, 2007

AC 5041, 5042 - the Divine was in Him for the salvation of mankind

AC 5041
That the Divine was in Him may be seen by every one within the church
from the fact that He was conceived of Jehovah,
for which reason He so frequently calls Him His "Father."
The very being of a person, and so the inmost of his life, is from the father;
the clothings or exteriors are from the mother;
therefore the Lord's being, and so the inmost of His life,
was Divine, because it was Jehovah Himself;
and the clothings or exteriors made the human
which He took from the mother by birth.
This human was such that it could be tempted...
but because the inmost was Divine,
He was able by His own power to cast out that evil heredity...
which was done successively by means of temptations,
and finally by the last, that of the cross,
when he fully glorified His Human, that is, made it Divine.

AC 5042
The Divine being itself, understood in the supreme sense,
is love utterly incomprehensible to mankind;
and from this love through truth all things come forth and subsist,
both those which have life and those which have not.
This Divine love from the very being through the inmost of life in the Lord,
flowed into everything He did from the Human taken from the mother,
and directed all to ends,
and these ends to the ultimate end that mankind might be saved.

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