TCR 126 - Our Salvation Required the Redemption and Glorification of His Human; TCR 130 - The Lord as The Prophet and His Passion

TCR 126

There are two things
for which the Lord came into the world,
and by means of which He effected
the salvation of men and angels,
namely, redemption and the glorification of His Human.
These two are distinct from each other,
but yet they make one with regard to salvation.
It has been shown in the preceding articles
that redemption was a combat with the hells,
their subjugation,
and afterwards
the orderly arrangement of the heavens;
but glorification was the uniting
of the Lord's Human with the Divine of His Father,
which was effected gradually,
and fully completed by the passion of the cross.
For every man, on his part,
ought to approach God;
and as man approaches,
so God on His part, enters.

TCR 130 [3]

The Lord as The Prophet represented
the state of the Jewish Church with respect to the Word,
as is evident from the particulars of His passion:
as that He was betrayed by Judas,
and was taken and condemned
by the chief priests and elders;
that they buffeted Him,
smote His head with a reed,
and put on Him a crown of thorns;
that they divided His garments
and cast lots upon His vesture;
that they crucified Him,
gave Him vinegar to drink,
and pierced His side;
that He was buried,
and on the third day rose again.

-- His betrayal by Judas signified
that He was betrayed by the Jewish nation,
which at that time possessed the Word
and which was represented by Judas.
-- His being taken and condemned
by the chief priests and elders signified
that it was done by the whole of that Church.
-- Their buffeting Him, spitting upon His face,
scourging Him, and smiting His head with a reed,
signified that they acted in like manner
toward the Word, with respect to its Divine truths;
-- and their putting a crown of thorns upon Him
signified that they had falsified
and adulterated those truths.
-- Their dividing His garments
and casting lots upon His vesture
signified that they had dissipated
all the truths of the Word,
but had not injured its spiritual sense,
which the Lord's vesture represented.
-- His crucifixion signified
that they had destroyed and profaned the whole Word.
-- Their offering Him vinegar to drink
signified that the truths of the Word
were altogether falsified,
and therefore He did not drink it.
-- Their piercing His side signified
that they had totally extinguished
all the truth and all the good of the Word.
-- His burial signified
the removal of what yet remained from the mother,
-- and His rising again the third day
signified the glorification, or union
of His Human with the Divine of the Father.
So it is clear that to bear iniquities
does not mean to take them away:
it represents the profanation of the truths of the Word.