Sunday, February 20, 2022

AC 3023 - "Jehovah the God of Heaven and the God of the Earth"; AC 3023 - Affections and "the Daughter of Egypt"

AC 3023

I will make you swear by
Jehovah the God of heaven
and the God of the earth.
(Genesis 24:3)

That this signifies a most holy pledging to the Divine
which is in the highest . . ..
"Jehovah the God of the earth" in this case
means Jehovah who is called the Son,
thus His Human essence;
this came forth from the Divine essence
when the Lord made it also Divine.
Thus by "Jehovah the God of heaven"
is meant the Divine that is in the highest;
and by "Jehovah the God of the earth"
is meant the Divine that is in
that which is therefrom.
But the Lord is called "Jehovah the God of heaven"
from His Divine that is in the heavens;
and He is called the "God of the earth"
from His Divine that is on earth.
The Divine in the heavens
is also that which is with a person in his internals;
but the Divine on earth
is that which is in his externals;
for the internals of a person are his heaven,
because by them he is conjoined with the angels;
but his externals are his earth,
for by them he is conjoined with people.
When a person is regenerate,
the internals flow into the externals,
and the externals are from the internals.
So also it may be known
what the internals of the church are,
and what its externals.

AC 3024 [1, 4]

All conjunction of truth with good
is effected by means of affection;
for no truth can possibly enter into a person's rational
and be conjoined there,
except by means of affection;
for in affection is the good of love,
which alone conjoins);
as may also be known to anyone who reflects.

In Jeremiah:

Go up into Gilead, and take balm,
O virgin daughter of Egypt.
O thou daughter that dwells in Egypt,
make thee vessels of exile.
(Jeremiah 46:11, 19, 24)

The daughter of Egypt shall be put to shame,
she is delivered into
the hand of the people of the north.
The "daughter of Egypt" denotes
the affection of reasoning from memory-knowledges
concerning the truths of faith,
as to whether they be so;
thus she denotes the kind of religion
that arises from this,
which is such that nothing is believed
except that which is comprehended by the senses,
and thus nothing of the truth of faith.

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