AE 701 [27] - The Sabbath - The Covenant of An Age

  AE 701 [27]

The sons of Israel shall keep the Sabbath
in their generations, the covenant of an age.
(Exodus 31:16)

The Sabbath was called "the covenant of an age,"
because the "Sabbath" signified in the highest sense
the union of the Divine with the Human in the Lord,
and in a relative sense
the conjunction of the Lord with heaven and the church,
and in a universal sense
the conjunction of good and truth,
which conjunction is called the heavenly marriage.
Therefore "the rest on the Sabbath day"
meant the state of that union and of that conjunction,
since by that state there is peace and rest to the Lord,
and thereby peace and salvation
in the heavens and on the earth.