AE 328 - The Lord Our Redeemer

AE 328 [6-7, 12, 19-20]

The primary thing is to acknowledge the Lord,
to acknowledge His Divine in the Human,
and His omnipotence to save the human race;
for by that acknowledgment
a person is conjoined to the Divine,
since there is no Divine except in Him;
for the Father is there;
for the Father is in Him, and He in the Father,
as the Lord Himself teaches . . ..

Afterwards the Lord taught how they were to be saved,
namely, by receiving Divine truth from Him;
and truth is received when it is applied to the life
and implanted in it by doing it;
therefore the Lord so often said
that they should do His words.
From this it can be seen that these two things, namely,
believing in the Lord and doing His words, make one,
and can by no means be separated;
for he who does not do the Lord's words
does not believe in Him;
so also he who thinks that he believes in Him
and does not do His words
does not believe in Him,
for the Lord is in His words, that is, in His truths,
and by them He gives faith to a person.
From these few things it can be known
that conjunction with the Divine is effected through
the acknowledgment of the Lord
and the reception of Divine truth from Him.

That to redeem signifies to deliver from evils
and to free from falsities,
and also to deliver and free from hell, is,
because all the evils and falsities with a person
arise from hell;
and because they are removed
through reformation and regeneration by the Lord,
reformation and regeneration
are also signified by to redeem or by redemption.

In Matthew:

"What is a man profited,
 if he shall gain the whole world, but shall lose his soul?
or what shall a man give as a price sufficient
for the redemption of his soul?"
(Matthew xvi. 26; Mark viii. 36, 37)

Redemption here means deliverance from damnation.
From these considerations it is evident
what is signified by the Lord redeeming mankind,
namely, that He has delivered and freed them from hell,
and from the evils and falsities which from there
continually rise up and bring a person into condemnation,
and that He continually delivers them and frees them.
This deliverance and liberation was brought about by
His subjugating the hells;
and the continual deliverance and liberation,
by His having glorified His Human,
that is, having made it Divine,
for thereby He keeps the hells continually in subjection;
this, therefore, is what is signified
by His redeeming a person,
and by His being called in the Word a Redeemer.