AC 2965 - The Lord's Divine Makes the Church With a Person

AC 2965 [2, 3]

. . . it is the Lord's Divine
which makes the church with man;
for nothing is called the church
that is not the Lord's own;
for it is the good which is of love and charity,
and it is the truth which is of faith,
which make that which is called the church.

With those who believe
all good and all truth to be from the Lord,
the price of redemption is signified by "forty,"
and in a higher degree by "four hundred."