AC 10360 - The Sabbath and the Divine Human of the Lord

AC 10360 [1-3, 6, 8]

And you shall keep the Sabbath.
(Exodus 31:13)

That this means that the Divine Human of the Lord
is to be worshiped,
is evident from the meaning of “keeping,”
when said of the Divine, as being to worship;
and from the meaning of “the Sabbath,”
as being in the supreme sense
the union of the Divine which is called the “Father”
and of the Divine Human which is called the “Son,”
thus the Divine Human in which is this union.
This union is signified by “the Sabbath,”
because by the six days of labor
which precede the seventh
is meant every state of combat;
for in the spiritual sense “labor”
does not mean such labor as there is in the world,
but such as those who are in the church endure
before they enter the church
and become the church,
which labor is combat against evils and falsities of evil.
A like “labor” (in the spiritual sense)
was endured by the Lord
when He was in the world;
for He then fought against the hells,
and reduced them and likewise the heavens into order,
and at the same time He glorified His Human,
that is, He united it to the Divine Itself
which He had from conception.

The time and state when the Lord was in combats
is meant by the six days of labor,
but the state when the union had been effected
is meant by the seventh day,
which is called “the Sabbath,”
from “rest,” because the Lord then had rest.
Consequently by “the Sabbath” is meant also
the conjunction of the Lord with heaven,
with the church, with an angel of heaven,
and with a person of the church.
The reason is that all who are to come into heaven
must first be in combats
against evils and the falsities of evil,
and when these have been separated
they enter heaven and are conjoined with the Lord,
and then they have rest.
It is similar with people in the world.
It is known that these must be in combats,
that is, that they must undergo temptations,
before the good and truth which make the church
have been implanted in them;
thus before they have been conjoined with the Lord,
consequently before they have rest.
From this it is evident where it is from
that a state of combat is meant by the six days of labor,
while rest and also conjunction
are meant by the seventh day or the Sabbath.

That the conjunction of good and truth also,
is meant by “the Sabbath,”
is because when a person is in combats
he is in truths;
but when truths have been conjoined with good,
thus when the person is in good,
he then has rest;
in like manner as the Lord,
when He was in the world,
and fought with the hells,
was in respect to His Human Divine truth;
and when He had united
His Human to the Divine Itself,
He then, even in respect to His Human,
became the Divine good, or Jehovah.

. . . that those who reverently worship
the Divine Human of the Lord
shall be in the Divine truths
of heaven and of the church . . ..

And therefore when the Lord was in the world,
and united His Human to the Divine Itself,
He abrogated the Sabbath
in respect to representative worship,
or in respect to its worship
such as was with the Israelitish people;
and made the Sabbath day a day of instruction
in the doctrine of faith and of love.