AC 5536 - To Bereave; AC 5551 - The Grave

AC 5536 [2]

That "to bereave"
denotes to deprive the church of its truths,
is because the church is compared to a marriage,
its good to the husband,
and its truth to the wife,
and the truths born of this marriage to sons,
and the goods to daughters, and so on.
When therefore "bereavement,"
or "bereaving" is spoken of,
it signifies that the church is deprived of its truths,
and that thereby it becomes no church.

AC 5551

It appears strange that the "grave"
should denote resuscitation,
but this is because of man's idea concerning it;
for he does not separate the grave from death,
nor even from the dead body in the grave.
Yet the angels in heaven
cannot have such an idea of the grave,
but one entirely different from man's,
namely, an idea of resurrection or resuscitation.
For when man's dead body is committed to the grave
he is resuscitated into the other life;
and therefore the idea angels have about the grave
is not an idea of death,
but of life, consequently of resuscitation.