Title: Saving the Tree of Life

Topic: First Coming

Summary: The Lord's salvation takes two forms: an ongoing saving of individual souls that respond, but also a one-time rescuing of the whole human race from destruction and oblivion.

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References:
Isaiah 53:9
Matthew 20:25, 28
Luke 2:9-10; 3:2, 4-6
John 12:44, 47
Acts of the Apostles 13:47
Romans 5:18-19
1 Timothy 2:1-4, 6; 4:10
Hebrews 5:8-9
Genesis 1:27-28; 12:1, 3; 13:4; 15:5; 22:17; 28:12, 14
Deuteronomy 1:10
Genesis 47:27
Exodus 1:20
Jeremiah 33:25
Ezekiel 36:8
Acts of the Apostles 6:7
Matthew 1
Luke 3:23

271. Clothed in white garments. That this signifies all truths from good in the lower heavens, is evident from the signification of white garments as being truths clothing, which specifically are scientific truths (vera scientifica) and knowledges (cognitiones) (concerning which see above, n. 195, 196, 198); and because the lower heavens are in these truths, therefore they are signified. That white garments signify the lower heavens may appear strange to those who know nothing concerning appearances and representatives in heaven; yet all in the heavens are clothed according to their truths, and lower truths correspond to garments, and because the lower heavens are in these truths, therefore also the garments of the angels in the higher heavens correspond to these. (This arcanum may be more clearly comprehended from what is said and shown concerning the garments in which the angels are clothed, in the work, Heaven and Hell 177-182; as also from what was represented and signified by the garments of Aaron and his sons, explained in Arcana Coelestia 9814, 10068, and by the garments of the Lord when He was transfigured, as explained, n. 9212, 9216.)