AC 3382 - "My Charge, My Commandments, My Statutes, and My Laws"

AC 3382  [1-2]

And kept My charge, My commandments,
My statutes, and My laws.
(Genesis 26:5)

That this means
by means of continuous revelations from Himself --
that is to say, as by means of temptations,
so also by means of these revelations
the Lord united the Divine Essence to the Human --
is evident from the fact that these words,
"keeping His charge, commandments,
statutes, and laws,"
involve all things of the Word,
namely, "charge," all things of the Word in general;
"commandments," the internal things;
"statutes," the external things;
and "laws," all things specifically.
Inasmuch as this is predicated of the Lord,
who from eternity was the Word,
and from whom all these things are,
in the internal sense
it cannot be meant
that He observed these things,
but that He revealed them to Himself
when He was in a state of unition
of the Human with the Divine.

These things do indeed appear at first view
rather remote from the sense of the letter,
and even from the proximate internal sense;
but still when the words are read by a person,
this is their sense in heaven;
for, as occasionally before said,
and as may be seen from examples given,
in its ascent toward heaven
the sense of the letter is put off;
and instead of it
another heavenly sense comes into view,
so different that it cannot be known
to be from the same source.
For those who are in heaven
are in the idea that in the internal sense
all things of the Word treat of the Lord;
and also that all things of the Word are from the Lord;
likewise that when He was in the world
the Lord thought from the Divine
and thus from Himself,
and acquired for Himself all intelligence and wisdom
through continuous revelations from the Divine;
and therefore from the above words
they perceive nothing else.
For "keeping the charge, commandments,
statutes, and laws" is not predicable of the Lord,
because He Himself was the Word,
consequently He Himself was the charge,
He Himself was the commandment,
He Himself the statute,
and He Himself the law;
for all these things have respect to Him
as the First from whom they are derived,
and as the Last to whom they tend.
Therefore in the supreme sense by the above words
nothing else can be meant
than the unition of the Lord's Divine with the Human,
through continuous revelations from Himself.