AC 10730, 10731 - A Sabbath of Sabbath, and the Keeping of the Sabbath

AC 10730 [1-2]

And on the seventh day there shall be to you holiness,
a Sabbath of Sabbath to Jehovah.
(Exodus 35:2)

. . . when the Lord was in the world,
He first made His Human Divine truth;
but when He went out from the world,
He made His Human Divine good
through a union with the Divine Itself that was in Him.
In the supreme sense this is represented by the Sabbath,
and therefore it is called
"a Sabbath of Sabbath to Jehovah."
The Lord does the like
with the man whom He is regenerating.
He first imbues him with truths,
and afterward by means of the truths
He conjoins him with good, thus with Himself.
This is represented by the Sabbath
in the relative sense;
for the regeneration of man is an image
of the glorification of the Lord;
that is, as the Lord glorified His Human,
so He regenerates man. 

By the "Sabbath" in its proper sense
is signified rest and peace,
because when the Lord
united His Human to the Divine Itself
He had peace,
for the combats then ceased,
and all things in the heavens and in the hells
had been reduced into order.
And accordingly there was peace not for Him only;
but also for the angels in the heavens,
and for men on earth,
there were peace and salvation. 

AC 10731
Everyone doing work therein shall die.
(Exodus 35:2)

That this signifies spiritual death
for those who are led by themselves and their own loves,
and not by the Lord,
is evident from the signification of
"doing works on the Sabbath day,"
as being to be led by self and one's own loves,
and not by the Lord.