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Hesekiel 2

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1 Und er sprach zu mir: Menschensohn, stelle dich auf deine Füße, und ich will mit dir reden.

2 Und als er zu mir redete, kam der Geist in mich und stellte mich auf meine Füße; und ich hörte den, der zu mir redete.

3 Und er sprach zu mir: Menschensohn, ich sende dich zu den Kindern Israel, zu den empörerischen Nationen, die sich wider mich empört haben; sie und ihre Väter sind von mir abgefallen bis auf diesen selbigen Tag.

4 Und diese Kinder sind schamlosen Angesichts und harten Herzens; zu ihnen sende ich dich, und du sollst zu ihnen sprechen: "So spricht der Herr, Jehova!"

5 Und sie, mögen sie hören oder es lassen (denn sie sind ein widerspenstiges Haus) sie sollen doch wissen, daß ein Prophet in ihrer Mitte war.

6 Und du, Menschensohn, fürchte dich nicht vor ihnen und fürchte dich nicht vor ihren Worten; denn Nesseln und Dornen sind bei dir, und bei Skorpionen wohnst du. Fürchte dich nicht vor ihren Worten, und erschrick nicht vor ihrem Angesicht; denn ein widerspenstiges Haus sind sie.

7 Und du sollst meine Worte zu ihnen reden, mögen sie hören oder es lassen; denn sie sind widerspenstig.

8 Und du, Menschensohn, höre, was ich zu dir rede; sei nicht widerspenstig wie das widerspenstige Haus; tue deinen Mund auf und iß, was ich dir gebe. -

9 Und ich sah: Und siehe, eine Hand war gegen mich ausgestreckt; und siehe, in derselben war eine Buchrolle.

10 Und er breitete sie vor mir aus, und sie war auf der Vorder-und auf der Hinterseite beschrieben; und es waren darauf geschrieben Klagen und Seufzer und Wehe. -

   

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Doctrine of the Lord # 29

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29. The Lord Made His Humanity Divine from the Divine in Him, and So Was United with the Father

The doctrine of the church, accepted throughout the Christian world, is this:

...our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and man.... But although He is God and man, still there are not two Christs but one, being one because the Divine took to Himself a humanity; yet still completely one, for...He is one person. For as soul and body form one person, so God and man are one Christ....

These words are taken from the doctrine of the Athanasian Creed, which has been accepted throughout the Christian world. They constitute the essential teaching there regarding the union of the Divine and human in the Lord. Everything else said in this same doctrine regarding the Lord — this we will explain in its own section.

It is apparent, clearly, from the above citation, that it accords with the Creed of the Christian Church to say that the Divine and the human in the Lord are not two entities but one, as soul and body are one person; and that it was the Divine in Him that took on the human.

[2] It follows from this that the Divine cannot be separated from the human, nor the human from the Divine, as separating them would be like separating soul and body.

The reality of this is something everyone acknowledges who reads what we have cited above in nos. 19 and 21 from the two Gospels that tell of the Lord’s birth, namely from Luke 1:26-35 and from Matthew 1:18-25. These descriptions make clear that Jesus was conceived of Jehovah God and born from the virgin Mary, thus that the Divine was present in Him and was His soul.

Now because His soul was the Divinity itself of the Father, it follows that His body or humanity became also Divine; for when one element is Divine, the other must be also.

In this way and no other are the Father and Son one — the Father being in the Son, and the Son in the Father —and all things of the Son are the Father’s, and all things of the Father are the Son’s, as the Lord Himself teaches in His Word.

[3] But how the union was formed — this we will tell point by point as follows:

1. The Lord from eternity is Jehovah.

2. The Lord from eternity, or Jehovah, assumed a humanity in order to save mankind.

3. He made His humanity Divine from the Divinity in Him.

4. He made His humanity Divine through temptations or trials that He underwent.

5. The complete union of the Divine and the human in Him was achieved by His suffering of the cross, which was the last of those temptations or trials.

6. He gradually put off the humanity received from the mother and put on a humanity from the Divinity in Him, which is the Divine humanity and the Son of God.

7. Thus God became human in final elements as well as in first ones.

  
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Published by the General Church of the New Jerusalem, 1100 Cathedral Road, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania 19009, U.S.A. A translation of Doctrina Novae Hierosolymae de Domino, by Emanuel Swedenborg, 1688-1772. Translated from the Original Latin by N. Bruce Rogers. ISBN 9780945003687, Library of Congress Control Number: 2013954074.

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Ezekiel 11:4

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4 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, son of man.