664. "Quia justae et verae viae Tuae, Rex sanctorum," significat quod omnia quae procedunt ad Ipso sint justa et vera, quia est Ipsum Divinum Bonum et Divinum Verum in Caelo et in Ecclesia. - Per "vias" significantur vera ducentia ad bonum (176); et per "Regem," cum de Domino, significatur Divinum Verum, et per "Regem sanctorum" Divinum Verum in Caelo et Ecclesia ab Ipso; per "sanctos" enim significantur qui in Divinis veris a Domino sunt (173, 586); inde per "justae et verae viae Tuae, Rex sanctorum" significatur quod omnia quae procedunt a Domino justa et vera sint, quia est ipsum Divinum Verum in Caelo et in Ecclesia. Dominus vocatur "Rex" in Divino Humano Suo, quia Hoc est Messias, Unctus, Christus, Filius Dei; quod "Messias" in lingua Hebraea sit "Christus" in lingua Graeca, et quod "Messias" seu "Christus" sit Filius Dei, videatur supra (520); quod "Messias" significet et Regem et Unctum in lingua Hebraea, notum est. Quod Dominus ut Rex sit Divinum Verum, est quia, "Rex" significat illud (20, 483); inde est quod per "reges" significentur qui in Divinis veris a Domino sunt, (Apocalypsis 1:6; 5:10),; Ex eo est, quod Caelum et Ecclesia dicantur "Regnum" Ipsius; tum quod Adventus Ipsius in mundum dicatur "Evangelium Regni." Caelum et Ecclesia dicuntur "Regnum Ipsius," (Daniel 2:44; 7:13-14, 27; Matthaeus 12:28; 16:28; Marcus 1:14-15; 9:1; 15:43; Luca 1:33; 4:43; 8:1, 10; 9:2, 11, 27; ¹ 10:11; 16:16; ² 19:11; 21:31; 22:18; 23:51);

et Adventus Ipsius dicitur "Evangelium Regni," (Matthaeus 4:23; 9:35; 24:14).

Sed plura de his videantur in Doctrina Novae Hierosolymae de Domino. Quod Dominus dicatur "Rex," patet ex his locis:

"Illi cum Agno pugnabunt, sed Agnus vincet illos, quia est Dominus dominorum et Rex regum," (Apocalypsis 17:14);

Sedens super Equo albo vocatur Verbum, et Nomen Ipsius est "Dominus dominorum et Rex regum," (Apocalypsis 19:13, 16; ³ Daniel 2:47);

"Dixit Nathanael, Tu es Filius Dei, Tu es Rex Israelis," (Johannes 1:49); ⁴

"Quando venerit Filius Hominis in gloria Sua, sedebit super Throno gloriae Suae; et dicet Rex illis qui e dextris et qui e sinistris," (Matthaeus 25:31, 34, 41); ⁵

"Clamarunt, Osanna, Benedictus Qui venit in Nomine Domini, Rex Israelis," (Johannes 12:13);

Pilatus quaesivi Jesum, num esset Rex; "Respondit Jesus, Rex sum Ego, Ego in hoc natus sum, et in hoc veni in mundum," (Johannes 18:37);

"Regem in pulchritudine Sua videbunt oculi tui; Jehovah Rex noster, Ille salvabit nos," (Esaias 33:17, 22);

"Ego Jehovah Sanctus vester, Creator Israelis Rex vester," (Esaias 43:15);

"Sic dixit Jehovah Rex Israelis, ex Redemptor ejus Jehovah Zebaoth, Ego Primus et Ultimus, et praeter Me non Deus," (Esajas 44:6);

"Jehovah erit in Regem super totam terram," (Sacharias 14:9; Psalm. 47:3, 7-9 (B.A. 2, 6-8));

"Attollite portae capita vestra, ut ingrediatur Rex gloriae: Jehovah Zebaoth Hic Rex gloriae," (Psalm. 24:7-10);

"Suscitabo Davidi Germen justum, Qui Regnet Rex, et faciat Judicium et Justitiam in terra," (Jeremias 23:5; 32:15).

(Praeter alibi, ut Esaias 6:5; 52:7; Jeremias 10:7, 10; 46:18; Ezechiel 37:22, 24; Zephanias 3:15; ⁶ Psalm. 20:10 (B.A. 9); Psalm. 45:12, 14, 16 (B.A. 11, 13, 15); ⁷ Psalm. 68:25 (B.A. 24); Psalm. 74:12).

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1661. 'And so it was in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim' means just so many kinds of apparent goods and truths which are not in themselves goods and truths, and which were present with the Lord's external Man. This becomes clear from the meaning of all these in the internal sense, and also from what follows. For the subject is the Lord's conflict against evils and falsities, here His first conflict which came during His childhood and earliest adolescence. That conflict He first entered into and endured after He had been endowed with knowledge and cognitions, hence the expression 'in the days of' these kings.

[2] Nobody can possibly fight against evils and falsities until he knows what evil and falsity are, not therefore until he has received instruction. A person does not know what evil is, still less what falsity is, before he is capable of understanding and of forming judgements for himself, which is the reason why a person does not enter into temptations until he has reached the age of maturity. Thus everyone is tempted in adult life, but the Lord was tempted even in childhood.

[3] Everyone fights first of all from the goods and truths he has received by means of cognitions, and it is from them and by means of them that he forms judgements concerning evils and falsities. Everyone furthermore when he first starts to fight imagines that these goods and truths from which he fights are his own, that is, he ascribes them to himself, and at the same time ascribes to himself the power by which he resists. This is allowed because a person cannot at the time know anything different. Before anyone has been regenerated he cannot possibly know, so as to be able to say that he knows, acknowledges, and believes, that no good or truth at all comes from self, but that everything good and true comes from the Lord; nor can he possibly know that he is unable by his own power to resist any evil or falsity. Indeed he does not know that evil spirits are activating and implanting the evils and falsities, still less that he is in communication with hell by means of evil spirits, and that hell presses on him like the sea against every part of a dike, which he can by no means resist by his own strength. Yet because he cannot do otherwise, until he has been regenerated, than imagine that he resists by his own strength, this too is permitted; and in this condition he is admitted into conflicts, or temptations. Subsequently however he becomes more and more enlightened.

[4] When a person's state is such that he imagines that good and truth originate in himself and that the power to resist is his own, the goods and truths from which he fights against evils and falsities are not really goods and truths, however much they appear to be so, for they have that which is his own within them, and he places self-merit in victory, boasting as though it were he that had overcome evil and falsity, when in fact it is the Lord alone who fights and overcomes. That this is indeed so none can know except those who are being regenerated by means of temptations.

[5] Because the Lord in earliest childhood was led into very serious conflicts against evils and falsities it was inevitable that at that time even He should think that way. This happened both because it was according to Divine order that His Human Essence should through continuous conflicts and victories be brought to the Divine Essence and united to it, and because the goods and truths from which He fought against evils and falsities belonged to the External Man. And because those goods and truths were not completely Divine they are for that reason called appearances of good and truth. His Divine Essence brought the Human Essence to itself in this way in order that it might overcome by its own power. The arcana here however are more than can possibly be described. In short, in those first conflicts the goods and truths residing with the Lord from which He fought were permeated by things inherited from the mother, and insofar as they were permeated by things inherited from the mother they were not Divine. Gradually however, as He overcame evil and falsity they were purified and made Divine.