Sunday, June 03, 2012

AC 2768 - temptations and permission; AC 2769 - "God", "Jehovah"

AC 2768
. . . it is according to the internal sense that God tempts no one;
but in the time of temptations
is continually liberating from them, as far as possible,
or as far as the liberation does not do harm,
and is continually looking to the good
into which He is leading him who is in the temptations;
for God never takes part in temptations in any other manner;
and though it is predicated of Him that He permits,
still it is not according to the idea
which a person has of permission,
namely, that by permitting He concurs.
A person cannot comprehend it in any other manner
than that he who permits is also willing;
but it is the evil within the person which causes,
and even leads into the temptation;
and no cause of this is in God
- as the cause is not in the king or in the judge,
when a person does evil and therefore suffers punishment.
For he who separates himself from the laws of Divine order,
all of which are the laws of good and consequently of truth,
casts himself into the laws that are opposite to Divine order,
which are those of evil and falsity,
and consequently of punishments and torments.

AC 2769
. . . the representation of Abraham, as being the Lord.
That the perception was from Divine truth,
may be seen from the fact that "God" is named, and not "Jehovah;"
for where truth is treated of in the Word, there "God" is named;
but where good is treated of, there "Jehovah" is named . . ..

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