Wednesday, February 11, 2009

AC 10738 - body & soul

AC 10738 [4-6]
The body is the instrumental
by which the will, which is the principal, acts;
and in acting the instrumental
and the principal are together a one.
And so it is with the soul and the body.
The angels in heaven have such an idea about the soul and the body;
and from this they know
that the Lord made His Human Divine from the Divine in Himself,
which was His soul from the Father.
Moreover, the faith everywhere received in the Christian world
does not dissent from this, for it teaches,
"As the body and soul are one man,
so also in the Lord, God and Man are one Christ."

As such was the union, or such the one, in the Lord,
He therefore rose again not only as to the soul;
but, differently from any man, as to the body which He glorified in the world.
He also instructed the disciples about this, saying,
"Feel Me and see, for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see Me have."

From this it is
that the church acknowledges
the omnipresence of His Human in the Sacrament of the Supper,
which could not be acknowledged unless His Human also was Divine.
These things were well understood by these spirits;
for such things fall into the understanding of angelic spirits;
and they said that the Lord alone has power in the heavens,
and that the heavens are His.
To this it was given to reply that the church also knows this
from the mouth of the Lord Himself
before He ascended into heaven,
for He then said,
"All power has been given to Me in heaven and on earth."

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