2667. The subject in verses 1-7 of this chapter has been the Lord's Human existing united to His Divine, and His Divine united to His Human, and how from that union the Lord's Human was made Divine. For what each particular verse contains, see 2649. The subject after that was the merely human rational, that it was to be separated (verse 8), because it was not in agreement with the Divine Rational (verse 9), and could not possess the same life as the Divine Rational, neither as to truth nor as to good (verse 10); that at first that separation was something over which the Lord was to grieve (verse 11), but that from the Divine He perceived that there was no other way in which the human race could have been saved (verse 12). What follows next has to do with those who belonged to the spiritual Church and who are meant by Hagar's son after he had been sent away.