AC 2033 - Thou shalt keep My covenant

AC 2033

Thou shalt keep My covenant.
Genesis 17:9)

That this signifies still closer union,
is evident from the signification of a "covenant,"
as being union and conjunction
The repeated mention here of "covenant,"
so frequently mentioned before,
denotes a closer union.
In the historical sense, which relates to Abraham,
nothing else can be said
than that he is to keep the covenant;
but in the internal sense,
in which the Lord is treated of,
what is historical vanishes,
and the things that can be predicated of Him
succeed in its place,
which relate to a closer union.
The union of the Lord's Human Essence
with His Divine Essence was not effected all at once,
but through the whole course of His life,
from infancy to the last of His life in the world.
Thus He ascended continuously to glorification,
that is, to union;
according to what is said in John:

Jesus said, Father glorify Thy name;
there came a voice from heaven:
I have both glorified and will glorify it again.
(John 12:28)