AC 5335 - Thirty

AC 5335 [2-3]

. . . as man cannot be regenerated,
that is, be admitted to the spiritual combats
through which regeneration is effected,
until he has received remains to the full,
it was ordained that the Levites
should not do any work in the tent of meeting
until they had completed thirty years . . ..
The like is involved in David's being thirty years old
when he began to reign (2 Sam. 5:4).

From all this it is now plain
why the Lord did not manifest Himself
until He was thirty years of age (Luke 3:23);
for He was then in the fullness of remains.
But the remains the Lord had
He Himself procured for Himself,
and they were of the Divine;
and by means of them
He united the Human essence to the Divine essence,
and made the Human essence Divine.
From Him then it is that "thirty years"
signify a full state as to remains,
and that the priests the Levites
entered upon their functions
when they were thirty years old,
and that David, because he was to represent the Lord
as to the royalty,
did not begin to reign until he was thirty;
for every representative is derived from the Lord,
and therefore every representative looks to the Lord.