93. 因為迦百列對瑪利亞說:"從你生出的聖者將被稱為上帝的兒子。"我現在就從聖言中列舉經句來說明, 以祂的人身顯現的主就是那所稱的"聖者":

我在異象觀看; 看, 一位守望者, 一位聖者, 從天而降(但以理書4:13, 23)。上帝從提幔而來, 聖者從巴蘭山臨到(哈巴穀書3:3)。我是耶和華聖者, 以色列的創造者, 你們的聖者(以賽亞書43:14-15)。以色列的救贖主, 他的聖者, 如此說(以賽亞書49:7)。我是耶和華你的上帝, 以色列的聖者, 你的救主(以賽亞書43:1, 3)。至於我們的救贖主, 萬軍之耶和華是祂的名, 以色列的聖者(以賽亞書47:4)。耶和華你的救贖主說, 以色列的聖者(以賽亞書43:14; 48:17)。萬軍之耶和華是祂的名, 你的救贖主是以色列的聖者(以賽亞書54:5)。他們試探上帝和以色列的聖者(詩篇78:41)。他們離棄耶和華, 藐視以色列的聖者(以賽亞書1:4)。他們說:"讓以色列的聖者離開我們的面"; 所以, 以色列的聖者如此說(以賽亞書30:11-12)。那些說:"讓趕快成就工作, 讓我們看看, 讓以色列聖者的目的臨近並出現"(以賽亞書5:19)。在那日, 他們必將依靠耶和華, 以色列的聖者, 真的(以賽亞書10:20)。揚聲歡樂吧, 錫安的居民, 因為在你們中間為大的是以色列的聖者(以賽亞書12:6)。以色列上帝的話:"在那日, 他的眼睛將必望向以色列的聖者"(以賽亞書17:6-7)。人中貧窮的必因以色列的聖者而快樂(以賽亞書29:19)。地充滿了違背以色列聖者的罪過(耶利米書51:5)。也可看以賽亞書55:5; 60:9 以及其它地方。

"以色列的聖者"表示在祂人身顯現的主, 因為天人對瑪利亞說:"從你生出的聖者將被稱為上帝的兒子"(路加福音1:35)。

儘管"耶和華"與"以色列的聖者"是分開提及, 但可明顯看出兩者是一,並且相同, 從以上列舉的經句中, 可證明以色列的聖者就是耶和華。

有許許多多的經句來說明主被稱為"以色列的上帝", 例如以賽亞書17:6; 21:10, 17; 24:15; 29:23;耶利米書7:3; 9:15; 11:3; 13:12; 16:9; 19:3, 15; 23:2; 24:5; 25:15, 27; 29:4, 8, 21, 25; 30:2; 31:23; 32:14-15, 36; 33:4; 34:2, 13; 35:13, 17-19; 37:7; 38:17; 39:16; 42:9, 15, 18; 43:10; 44:2, 7, 11, 25; 48:1; 50:18; 51:33;以西結書8:4; 9:3; 10:19-20; 11:22; 43:2; 44:2;撒迦利亞書2:9;詩篇41:13; 59:5; 68:8。

83. And I became dead, signifies that He was rejected. This is evident from this, that the Lord is said to be "dead" when faith in Him and love towards Him are no more; for with those who are in love towards Him and faith in Him the Lord lives, but with those who are not in love and in faith toward Him He does not live. With such He is said to be "dead" because He is rejected. This is what is here meant in the internal sense by the words "I became dead;" but in the sense of the letter it is meant that He was crucified. The Lord's being crucified has a like signification in the internal sense, namely, that He was rejected and treated thus by the Jews; for the Lord, when He was in the world, was Divine truth itself, and as Divine truth was altogether rejected by the Jews, therefore the Lord, who was Divine truth, suffered Himself to be crucified. Such things are signified by all that is related in the Evangelists concerning the Lord's passion; the particulars, even to every minutest particular, involve this. Whenever, therefore, the Lord speaks of His passion He calls Himself the Son of man, that is, Divine truth (See above, n. 63). That Divine truth was altogether rejected by the Jews is well known; for they accepted nothing that the Lord said, and not even that He was the Son of God. From this it may be known how those things that the Lord said to the disciples about the Jews' rejection of Him are to be understood. Thus in Luke:

The Son of man must suffer many things, and be repudiated by the elders and chief priests and scribes (Luke 9:22).

In the same:

The Son of man must suffer many things, and be repudiated by this generation (Luke 17:25).

In Mark:

It is written of the Son of man, that He should suffer many things and be set at naught (Mark 9:12).

In Luke:

Jesus took unto Him the twelve, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are foretold through the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished. For He shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and shamefully entreated, and spit upon; and after they have scourged Him, they shall put Him to death; but the third day He shall rise again (Luke 18:31-33).

The way in which the Jews treated Divine truth, which was from the Word, is signified by these particulars. "Jerusalem" here is the Jewish Church; "to be delivered unto the Gentiles, to be mocked, to be shamefully entreated, to be spit upon, to be scourged, to be put to death," are the wicked ways in which the Jews treated Divine truth; and as the Lord was Divine truth itself, because He was the Word (John 1:14), and as it was foretold in the prophets that Divine truth would be so dealt with in the end of the church, therefore it is said, "that all things may be accomplished that have been foretold through the prophets concerning the Son of man." So elsewhere in the same Gospel:

These are the words which I spoke unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must needs be fulfilled which are written in the law of Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the Psalms, concerning Me (Luke 24:44).

That all things were accomplished when Jesus was crucified He Himself said, when He was upon the cross:

Jesus, knowing that all things were accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, I thirst (John 19:28).

He then said, "I thirst," because He longed for a new church that would acknowledge Him. (That to "thirst," in the spiritual sense, signifies to long for, and that it is predicated of the truths of the church, see Arcana Coelestia 4958, 4976, 8568.) These are also the things that were predicted by Daniel concerning vastation and desolation:

After sixty and two weeks shall the Messiah be cut off, but not for Himself; then the people of the Prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary, so that its end shall be with a flood. At last upon the bird of abominations shall be desolation, and even to the consummation and decision it shall drop upon the devastation (Daniel 9:26-27).

"Desolation" and "vastation" signify repudiation and rejection of Divine truth with those that are of the church (See Arcana Coelestia 5360, 5376). That Divine truth, which is the Word, was so repudiated by the Jews, is also meant by these words in Matthew:

I say unto you that Elias is come already, and they have not acknowledged him, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Even so shall the Son of man suffer of them (Matthew 17:12).

By "Elias" the Word is signified (See Arcana Coelestia, preface to chapter 18 of Genesis, and in n. 2762, 5247), and also by "John the Baptist;" therefore he was called "Elias" (n. 7643, 9372). From this it can be seen what is signified by "Elias has come," and that "they have done to him whatsoever they listed," and that "the Son of man is to suffer of them." How the Jews explained and thus rejected the Word is clear from many passages in the Gospels, where the Lord makes this manifest. From this it can now be seen that "I became dead," signifies that He was rejected. Moreover, that the Lord, by the passion of the cross, also glorified His Human, that is, made it Divine, see New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine, n. 294-295, 302, 305.