AC 3441
For the sake of Abraham My servant.
(Genesis 26:24)
This means because of the Lord's Divine Human.
This is clear from the representation of 'Abraham'
as the Lord's Divine, and also His Divine Human,
and from the meaning of 'My servant',
when used in reference to the Lord,
as the Divine Human.
Not that the Divine Human is a servant,
for the Divine Human also is Jehovah,
but 'My servant' means the Divine Human
because by means of that Divine Human
the Lord serves the human race.
Indeed it is by means of the Divine Human
that a person is saved,
for unless the Lord had united
the Human to the Divine
so that a person could with his mind
behold and worship the Lord's Human,
and in so doing approach the Divine,
he could not possibly be saved.
The joining of a person
to the Divine Himself, called the Father,
is effected through the Divine Human, called the Son,
and so through the Lord,
by whom one who is spiritual
understands the Human,
but one who is celestial
understands the Divine Himself.
From these considerations it is evident
why the Divine Human is called a servant,
namely that it serves the Divine
for the purpose of giving a person access to Himself,
and it serves the human race in their salvation.
AC 3445
. . . doctrine itself from the literal sense of the Word
is one only, namely,
the doctrine of charity and love --
charity toward the neighbor and love to the Lord;
for this doctrine and life according to it
is the whole Word . . ..
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