Friday, August 24, 2018

AC 8882 - Taking the Lord's Name in Vain; AC 8884, AC 8889, AC 8891 - Remember the Sabbath Day

AC 8882

Thou shalt not take
the name of Jehovah thy God in vain.

(Exodus 20:7)

That this signifies profanations and blasphemings
of the truth and good of faith,
is evident from the signification of "the name of God,"
as being all in the complex
by which the Lord is worshiped,
thus all the truth and good of faith;
and from the signification of "taking in vain,"
as being to profane and blaspheme.
By "taking the name of God in vain"
is properly signified to turn truth into evil,
that is, to believe that it is truth,
and nevertheless to live in evil;
and it also denotes to turn good into falsity,
that is, to live holily, and yet not to believe.
Both are profanation,
for believing is of the understanding,
and living is of the will;
and therefore in those
who believe otherwise than they live,
the thought and will are divided.

AC 8884

Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.
Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work.
And the seventh day
is the Sabbath to Jehovah thy God;

thou shalt not do any work, thou,
and thy son, and thy daughter,
thy manservant, and thy maidservant,
and thy beast, and thy sojourner who is in thy gates.
For in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth,
the sea, and all that is in them,
and rested in the seventh day;
wherefore Jehovah blessed the Sabbath day
and hallowed it. 
(Exodus 20:8-11)

"Remember," signifies what is perpetual in the thought;
"the Sabbath day,"
-- signifies in the supreme sense
the union of the Divine Itself
and the Divine Human of the Lord,
in the internal sense the conjunction
of the Divine Human with the heavens, thus heaven,
and so the marriage of good and truth there;
"to keep it holy,"
-- signifies no violation in any manner;
"Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work,"
-- signifies the combat
which precedes and prepares for this marriage;
"and the seventh day
is the Sabbath to Jehovah thy God,"
-- signifies good implanted and thus the marriage;
"thou shalt not do any work, thou,
and thy son, and thy daughter,
thy manservant, and thy maidservant,
and thy beast, and thy sojourner who is in thy gates,"
-- signifies that in this case
heaven and blessedness are in each and all things
in the internal and in the external of man;
"for in six days
Jehovah made heaven and earth, the sea,"
-- signifies the regeneration and vivification
of those things
which are in the internal and in the external man;
"and all that is in them,"
-- signifies of all things therein;
"and rested in the seventh day,"
-- signifies that then
there are peace and the good of love;
"wherefore Jehovah blessed the Sabbath day,"
signifies that then is the heavenly marriage
from the Lord;
"and hallowed it,"
-- signifies that it cannot in any wise be violated.

AC 8889

. . .  the good with man is not spiritual good
until it has been formed by truths;
and when it has been so formed,
there is then the heavenly marriage;
for this is the conjunction of good and truth,
and is heaven itself with a person.

AC 8891

. . . the signification of "six days,"
as being states of combat,
and when predicated of Jehovah, that is, the Lord,
they signify His labor with a person
before he is regenerated . . ..




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