Monday, June 21, 2010

AE 41, 52 - the Alpha & Omega, the Divine Human

AE 41 - Revelation 1:8
I am the Alpha and the Omega, Beginning and End,
signifies that He governs all things from firsts through ultimates,
and thus all things of heaven to eternity. . ..
These things are said of the Lord's Divine Human,
for they are said of Jesus Christ,
by which name His Divine Human is meant.
By means of this the Lord is in firsts and in ultimates.

AE 52 - Revelation 1:9
And for the testimony of Jesus Christ,
signifies that the Lord's Divine Human may be acknowledged.
This is evident from the signification of "testimony,"
as being acknowledgment in heart;
and from the signification of the names "Jesus" and "Christ,"
as being the Lord in respect to His Divine Human.
These things are said concerning the church of the Gentiles,
which is about to receive Divine truth
and acknowledge the Lord's Divine Human.
The Christian church indeed, acknowledges the Lord's Divine,
but not His Divine Human;
when, therefore, they think and speak about the Lord from doctrine,
they separate His Human from the Divine,
and make His Human like the human of another man;
when yet the Divine is in His Human as the soul is in the body.

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