De Domino (On the Lord) · Emanuel Swedenborg
From Reason
4 of 820. FROM REASON Through this the Papists have claimed for themselves Divine authority.
21. The affection itself which is of the love, is from the father; and this is also a man's very life or soul; but the clothing is from the mother. Hence it is manifest of what quality the Lord was, as to the soul, or life - that He was the Divine love. And this could not be together with what was put on from the mother, without casting it off successively, for the mother was born into sins, as is every man. This was the infirm human which He assumed, so as to be able to admit into Himself temptations, and to conquer the hells, and to dispose into order all things in the heavens and the hells; when this was cast off, He united the Human to the Divine, or glorified the Human. It may be known that such as a man is as to affection which is of love, such is the man. Who does not value another according to his affection?
22. That the Lord executed a judgment when He was in the world, is plainly evident from many passages in the Word, as from all those in which is named "the day of Jehovah," which is said to be terrible, and which is called "the day of Zebaoth."
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