THE LORD (pt. 15)

The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
• Doctrinal Series •
THE LORD
(pt. 15)

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That the Lord subjugated the hells, He Himself teaches in John: when the passion of the cross was at hand, then Jesus said:
Now is the judgment of this world; now the prince of this world shall be cast out (12:27, 28, 31).

In the same:
Have confidence, I have overcome the world (16:33).

And in Isaiah:
Who is this that cometh from Edom, going on in the multitude of His strength, great to save? My own arm brought salvation to Me; so He became to them for a Saviour (63:1-19; 59:16-21).

That He glorified His Human, and that the passion of the cross was the last temptation and full victory, by which He glorified it, He teaches also in John:
After Judas went out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God will glorify Him in Himself, and will immediately glorify Him (13:31, 32).

In the same:
Father, the hour has come; glorify Thy Son, that Thy Son also may glorify Thee (17:1, 5).

In the same:
Now is my soul troubled; Father, glorify Thy name; and a voice came out from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again (12:27, 28).

And in Luke:
Ought not Christ to suffer this, and to enter into His glory? (24:26.)

These words were said in relation to His passion: "to glorify" is to make Divine. Hence, now, it is manifest, that, unless the Lord had come into the world, and been made Man, and in this manner had liberated from hell all those who believe in Him and love Him, no mortal could be saved; this is understood by the saying, that without the Lord there is no salvation.

(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 294)

THE LORD (pt. 14)

The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
• Doctrinal Series •
THE LORD
(pt. 14)

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The Lord came into the world that He might save the human race, which otherwise would have perished in eternal death; and He saved them by this, that He subjugated the hells, which infested every man coming into the world and going out of the world; and at the same time by this, that He glorified His Human: for thus He can keep the hells in subjugation to eternity. The subjugation of the hells, and the glorification of His Human at the same time, were effected by means of temptations admitted into the human which He had from the mother, and by continual victories therein. His passion on the cross was the last temptation and full victory.

(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 293)

THE LORD (pt. 13)

The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
• Doctrinal Series •
THE LORD
(pt. 13)

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They who make the Human of the Lord like the human of another man, do not think of His conception from the Divine itself, nor do they consider that the body of everyone is an effigy of his soul. Neither do they think of His resurrection with the whole body; nor of His appearance when He was transformed, that His face shone as the sun. Neither do they think, respecting those things which the Lord said concerning faith in Him, concerning His unity with the Father, concerning His glorification, and concerning His power over heaven and earth, that these are Divine, and were said of His Human. Neither do they remember that the Lord is omnipresent also as to His Human (Matt. 23:20); when yet the faith of His omnipresence in the Holy Supper is thence derived; omnipresence is Divine. Yea, perhaps they do not think that the Divine, which is called the Holy Spirit, proceeds from His Human; when yet it proceeds from His glorified Human, for it is said:

The Holy Spirit was not yet, because Jesus was not yet glorified (John 7:39).

(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 292)

THE LORD (pt. 12)

The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
• Doctrinal Series •
THE LORD
(pt. 12)

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Because all the Divine is in the Lord, therefore He has all power in the heavens and in the earths; which he also says in John:
The Father hath given all things into the hand of the Son (3:35).

In the same:
The Father hath given to the Son power over all flesh (17:2).

In Matthew:
All things are delivered to Me by the Father (11:27).

In the same
All power is given to Me in heaven and in earth (28:18).

Such power is Divine.

(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 291)

THE LORD (pt. 11)

The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
• Doctrinal Series •
THE LORD
(pt. 11)

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The idea of three in one Person is had, when it is thought that the Father is in the Lord, and that the Holy Spirit proceeds from Him; the Trinity is then in the Lord, the Divine itself which is called the Father, and the Divine Human which is called the Son, and the Divine proceeding which is called the Holy Spirit.

(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 290)

THE LORD (pt. 10)

The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
• Doctrinal Series •
THE LORD
(pt. 10)

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They who, concerning the Divinity, have the idea of three Persons, cannot have the idea of one God; if with the mouth they say one, still they think three; but they who, concerning the Divinity, have the idea of three in one Person, can have the idea of one God, and can say one God, and also think one God.

(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 289)

THE LORD (pt. 9)

The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Emanuel Swedenborg
• Doctrinal Series •
THE LORD
(pt. 9)

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That the Divine and Human of the Lord is one Person, is from the faith received in the whole Christian world, which is to this effect:

Although Christ is God and Man, still He is not two, but one Christ; yea, He is altogether one and a single Person; because as the body and the soul are one man, so also God and Man are one Christ.

This is from the Athanasian Creed.

(The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 288)