AC 1607 - all power given to the Son of man

AC 1607 [2,3]
As regards all power being given unto the Son of man
in the heavens and on earth,
it is to be known that the Lord had power over all things
in the heavens and on earth
before He came into the world;
for He was God from eternity and Jehovah . . .
for He was Jehovah and God to the Most Ancient Church
that was before the flood, and was seen by them.
He was also Jehovah and God to the Ancient Church
that was after the flood.
And it was He who has represented by all the rites of the Jewish Church,
and whom they worshiped.
But the reason He says
that all power was given unto Him in heaven and on earth,
as if it were then His for the first time,
is that by "the Son of man" is meant His Human Essence;
and this, when united to His Divine Essence, was also Jehovah,
and at the same time had power;
and this could not be the case until He had been glorified,
that is, until by unition with the Divine Essence
His Human Essence also had life in itself,
and so became in like manner Divine and Jehovah;
as He says in John:

As the Father has life in Himself,
so has He given to the Son to have life in Himself
(John 5:26)


. . . His Human Essence had been united to His Divine Essence,
which was united when He had overcome the devil and hell,
that is, when by His own power and His own might
He had expelled all evil,
which alone disunites.