AE 365 - peace

AE 365 [11]

The disciples praised God, saying,
Blessed is the King that comes in the name of the Lord;
peace in heaven and glory in the highest.
(Luke 19:37-38)

These things were said by the disciples
when the Lord went to Jerusalem,
that He might there,
by the passion of the cross,
which was His last temptation,
wholly unite His Human to His Divine,
and might also entirely subjugate the hells;
and as all Divine good and truth
would then proceed from Him, they say,
"Blessed is the King that comes in the name of the Lord,"
which signified acknowledgment, glorification,
and thanksgiving that these things were from Him;
"peace in heaven and glory in the highest"
signifies that the things meant by "peace"
are from the union
of the Divine Itself and the Divine Human,
and that from this union
the angels and men have peace
by conjunction with the Lord;
for when the hells had been subjugated by the Lord,
peace was established in heaven,
and then those who were there
had Divine truth from the Lord,
which is "glory in the highest."
As "peace" in the internal sense of the Word
signifies the Lord, and from Him, heaven and eternal life,
and in particular,
the delight of heaven
arising from conjunction with the Lord,
so the Lord after the resurrection,
when He appeared to the disciples,
said to them:

Peace be unto you.
(Luke 24:36, 37; John 20:19, 21, 26)