Arcana Coelestia # 7091
7091. 'Thus said Jehovah, the God of Israel' means that it - the admonition to those opposed to the Church's truths - comes from the Lord's Divine Human. This is clear from the consideration that 'Jehovah, the God of Israel' is used to mean the Lord in respect of the Divine Human, for 'Jehovah' in the Word is the Lord, see 1343, 1736, 2921, 3023, 3075, 5041, 5663, 6281, 6303, 6905. He is called 'the God of Israel' because the Lord's spiritual kingdom is meant by 'Israel', 6426, 6637, and because by His Coming into the world the Lord saved those who belonged to that kingdom or Church, 6854, 6914, 7075. The reason why 'the God of Israel' means the Lord in respect of the Divine Human is that those who belong to that Church envisage everything spiritual or celestial, and the Divine too, in the way they envisage natural things. Therefore if they did not think in a natural way of the Divine as a Person they could not be joined to the Divine through any kind of affection. For if they did not think about the Divine as a Person in a natural way they would have either no ideas at all about the Divine, or else monstrous ones, and so would defile the Divine. So this is why 'the God of Israel' is used to mean the Lord in respect of the Divine Human, in particular of the Divine Natural.
'Israel' and 'Jacob' are used in the highest sense to mean the Lord's Divine Natural, 'Israel' the internal Divine Natural and 'Jacob' the external Divine Natural, see 4570.
Those who belong to the spiritual Church have been and are saved by means of the Lord's Divine Human, 2833, 2834.
The member of the spiritual Church, who is 'Israel', is interior natural, 4286, 4401.
[2] From all this it is now evident why in the Word the Lord is called 'Jehovah, the God of Israel' and 'Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel'. Anyone may see that when the Divine is referred to by these names it is solely because they are suitable for expressing something Holy that is not apparent in the sense of the letter. The fact that the Lord in respect of the Divine Natural is meant by 'the God of Israel' is evident from quite a number of places in the Word, plainly so from the following,
Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel saw the God of Israel, under whose feet there was so to speak a paved work of sapphire stone, like the substance of the sky for clearness. Exodus 24:9-10.
[3] The fact that this was the Lord, and not Jehovah, who is called the Father, is evident from the Lord's words in John,
Nobody has ever seen God. John 1:18.
You have never heard His voice nor seen His shape. John 5:37.
In Isaiah,
I will give you the treasures of darkness, and the secret wealth of concealed places, that you may know that it is I, Jehovah, who called you by your name, the God of Israel. Isaiah 45:3.
In Ezekiel,
Over the heads of the cherubim, in appearance like a sapphire stone, there was the likeness of a throne, and over the likeness of a throne there was a likeness, as the appearance of a man (homo) upon it above. And with him there was the appearance of fire and a rainbow, and of brightness round about. Ezekiel 1:26-28.
These things are called the glory of Jehovah and of the God of Israel in the same prophet, in Ezekiel 1:28; 8:4; 9:3; 10:19-20, and also where the New Temple is the subject, in Ezekiel 43:2; 44:2, [4]. ['The God of Israel' appears] in many other places besides these, such as Isaiah 17:6; 21:10, 17; 24:15; 41:17; Psalms 41:13; 59:5; 68:8, 35; 69:6; 72:18; and elsewhere. The name THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL is also used in Isaiah 1:4; 5:19, 24; 10:20; 17:7; 30:11-12, 15; 49:7; 60:9, 14; Ezekiel 39:7.
[4] The fact that the Lord in respect of His Divine Human is meant by 'the God of Israel' and 'the Holy One of Israel' is also clear from His being called Redeemer, Saviour, and Maker: REDEEMER in Isaiah 47:4 (Jehovah Zebaoth is our Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel is His name), and also in Isaiah 41:14; 43:14; 48:17; 54:5; SAVIOUR in Isaiah 43:3 and MAKER in Isaiah 45:11. From this it is also evident that no one other than the Lord is meant in the Old Testament Word by Jehovah, since He is called JEHOVAH GOD and THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL, REDEEMER, SAVIOUR, and MAKER. He is called Jehovah the Redeemer and Saviour in Isaiah,
That all flesh may know that I Jehovah am your Saviour, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob. Isaiah 49:26.
In the same prophet,
That you may know that I Jehovah am your Saviour, and your Redeemer, the Powerful One of Jacob. 1 Isaiah 60:16.
Also in Isaiah 43:14; 44:6, 24; 54:8; 63:16; Psalms 19:14.
[5] The fact that the Lord saved Israel, that is, those who belonged to the spiritual Church, may be seen in Isaiah,
I will tell of the mercies of Jehovah, the praises of Jehovah, according to all that Jehovah has rewarded us with - great [as He is] in goodness to the house of Israel. He said, Surely they are My people, children who do not lie. And therefore He became their Saviour. In all their affliction He suffered affliction, and the angel of His face delivered them; because of His love and His compassion He redeemed them, and took them and carried them all the days of eternity. Isaiah 63:7-9.
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1. The Latin means Israel but the Hebrew means Jacob.
John 20
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Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.
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Therefore she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they have laid him!"
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Therefore Peter and the other disciple went out, and they went toward the tomb.
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They both ran together. The other disciple outran Peter, and came to the tomb first.
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Stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying, yet he didn't enter in.
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Then Simon Peter came, following him, and entered into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying,
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and the cloth that had been on his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself.
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So then the other disciple who came first to the tomb also entered in, and he saw and believed.
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For as yet they didn't know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
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So the disciples went away again to their own homes.
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But Mary was standing outside at the tomb weeping. So, as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb,
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and she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.
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They told her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I don't know where they have laid him."
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When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, and didn't know that it was Jesus.
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Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?" She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away."
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Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned and said to him, "Rabboni!" which is to say, "Teacher!"
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Jesus said to her, "Don't hold me, for I haven't yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"
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Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to her.
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When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, "Peace be to you."
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When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad when they saw the Lord.
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Jesus therefore said to them again, "Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you."
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When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit!
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Whoever's sins you forgive, they are forgiven them. Whoever's sins you retain, they have been retained."
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But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, wasn't with them when Jesus came.
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The other disciples therefore said to him, "We have seen the Lord!" But he said to them, "Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe."
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After eight days again his disciples were inside, and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the midst, and said, "Peace be to you."
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Then he said to Thomas, "Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. Don't be unbelieving, but believing."
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Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!"
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Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed."
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Therefore Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book;
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but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
