Thursday, December 18, 2008

AC 10052 & 10053 - "the King of Glory"

AC 10052 [2]
The Divine Itself is the Divine good of the Divine love;
and as the Lord united His Human with this,
and thus made His Human also Divine,
therefore it cannot be said that His Human was regenerated,
but glorified,
for "to glorify" is to make Divine.

AC 10053
. . . when the Lord was in the world
He made His Human Divine truth,
and successively also by unition with the Divine good
which was in Him and was the being of His life,
He made His Human Divine good,
thus one with Jehovah.

[2] That where the Lord is treated of "glorification"
denotes the unition of His Human with the Divine Itself
which was in Him, thus with Jehovah His Father,
by which unition He made His Human also the Divine good,
is manifest from the passages in the Word
where mention is made of "glory," and "glorification,"
when spoken of Jehovah or the Lord, as in these passages:

The glory of Jehovah shall be revealed,
and all flesh shall see it together,
for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

(Isaiah 40:5).

I Jehovah have called thee in righteousness,
to open the blind eyes,
to bring forth from the prison him that is bound;
I am Jehovah;
this is My name,
and My glory will I not give to another.

(Isaiah 42:6-8).

These passages treat of the Lord,
and by "the glory of Jehovah" is meant the Lord as to Divine truth,
for the Divine truth proceeding from the Lord is the "glory of Jehovah".

[3] Hence also it is that the Lord is called the "King of glory," as in David:

Lift up your heads, O ye gates,
and be ye lifted up, ye doors of the world,
and the King of glory shall come in.
Who is this King of glory?
Jehovah strong and a Hero, Jehovah a Hero of war.

(Psalms 24:7-10).

The Lord is here called the "King of glory"
from the Divine truth from which He fought, conquered, and subdued the hells;
that this was done from His Human when He was in the world;
hence it is that He is called
"Jehovah strong and a Hero of war,"
and a "Hero" also in Isaiah:

Unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given,
and His name is God, Hero, the Father of Eternity.

(Isaiah 9:6).

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