From the Word

37. FROM THE WORD From the Word that God is one; or "Beside me there is no God."

38. The Lord was conceived of the Divine Itself, which is named Jehovah and the Father. (Let Matt. 1:18-25 and Luke 1:35-37 be introduced.)

39. God Himself came into the world and put on the Human, and made this Divine (John 1:1, 3, 14), namely: God was the Word, and the Word was made Flesh (John 1:1, 14); thus God was made Flesh, that is, Man. He also was the Creator, for it is said: The world was made by Him (John 1:10). (See also Isa. 9:6; 7:14; Jer. 23:5, 6; 33:15, 16; Isa. 42:8; Mal. 3:1; Isa. 25:9.) Also, He was from eternity (from the Gospels).

40. It was His own Divine which assumed the Human, and this was the Divine which He called the Father, and not another Divine. Therefore He says: He that seeth Me, seeth the Father (John 14:7-11); He is in the Father and the Father in Him, and that they are One (John 10:30, 38)

41. He glorified His Human from the Divine in Himself. (See Index Biblicus, s. v. "to glorify.")

42. He no longer acknowledged the mother, nor David (let passages be quoted), and so He was not his son.

43. Wherefore the Divine Human is to be approached and worshiped from faith and love. (Let passages be introduced from New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine.)

44. They saw the Lord in Human form; and He was called Jehovah by Abraham (let this also be brought in). This was confirmed by the Lord, when He said that He was before Abraham.

45. He was also seen by the disciples; He was Man before their eyes, and He was also Man when He became invisible (Luke 24:31). Whence this was.

46. He is omnipresent "all the days" (Matt. 28:20); and in the Holy Supper He is omnipresent as to the Human; and omnipresence is Divine.

47. He has all authority in the heavens and in earth, as to the Human also.

48. He is to judge all; to him has been given judgment, also, in the last day.

49. He was united to His Divine by successive steps, for reasons that will be given below; and He was united [to it] through temptations and victories. Full unition was accomplished by the passion of the cross. (From passages in the Word.)

50. So far as He was united, so far He spoke with Himself; but so far as He was not yet united, so far He spoke as with another. The latter was His state of humiliation, but the former the state of glorification.

51. That He meant Himself when He named the Father, is plain from passages quoted above.

52. That for the sake of the internal sense He named the Divine good Father, and the Divine truth Christ, is plain from Matt. 23:9, 10 (which may be introduced), and from very many other passages.

53. To know and acknowledge its God is the first thing of the church, for the reason that without this there is no safety; as may be manifest from the Jews, that when they did not worship Jehovah, although they were steadfast in their other rites, they were accursed. (Passages from the Word.) Then that the Lord so often said, Because they believe, therefore it is done to them - for this was then the first thing, to believe in the Lord, and to believe that to Him was all authority; and because of their former faith, He said, "the Father" before them, but He meant Himself, as is plain from many passages. (Let the passages be quoted.) This knowledge and acknowledgment conjoin; and without them there is no conjunction, and thus no salvation.

54. (All the passages may perhaps be quoted in which it is said, "My Father," "your Father," "the Father who is in the heavens"; and it may be briefly told what they signify.)