10370. ‘Et custodient filii Israelis sabbatum ad faciendum sabbatum generationibus illorum’: quod significet quod ipsum essentiale Ecclesiae sit agnitio unionis ipsius Divini in Humano Domini, et quod ¹ haec erit in omnibus et singulis cultus, constat ex significatione ‘custodire sabbatum’ quod sit sancta cogitatio jugiter de unione ipsius Divini cum Humano Domini, de qua supra n. 10356, ita quoque agnitio, nam cogitatio absque agnitione et fide non est cogitatio spiritualis; ex repraesentatione ‘filiorum Israelis’ quod sint Ecclesia, de qua in locis citatis n. 9340; ex significatione ‘facere sabbatum’ quod sit sancte colere illam unionem, ita Dominum quoad Divinum Humanum, nam in Eo est illa unio; et ex significatione ‘ ² generationum filiorum Israelis’ quod sit in omnibus et singulis Ecclesiae, de qua n. 10282; ex his patet quod per quod ‘custodient filii Israelis sabbatum ad faciendum sabbatum generationibus vestris’ significetur agnitio ipsius Divini in Humano Domini in omnibus et singulis cultus; quod id essentiale Ecclesiae sit, et inde essentiale cultus ejus, est quia salus generis humani unice pendet ab illa unione; propter ³ illam unitionem etiam Dominus in mundum venit; ideo etiam totum Verbum in sensu intimo de illa agit, ac ⁴ ritualia Ecclesiae apud filios Israelis institutae, illam repraesentabant et significabant;

[2] ⁵ quod salus generis humani inde sit, consequenter quod ⁶ agnitio illa essentiale Ecclesiae, et ejus cultus sit, docet Dominus pluribus in locis, ut apud Johannem,

Qui credit in Filium, habet vitam aeternam; qui vero non credit Filio, non videbit vitam, 3:36, tum vers. 15, 16, 16 ibi; ut et 6:40, 11:25, 26, 20:31;

‘Filius’ est Divinum Humanum Domini; quod non habeant vitam aeternam illi qui non ex fide agnoscunt Dominum, est quia totum caelum in agnitione illa est, ⁷ Dominus enim est Dominus caeli et terrae, ut Ipse docet apud Matthaeum,

Data est Mihi omnis potestas in caelo et in terra, 28:18;

quapropter illis qui non agnoscunt Ipsum, clauditur caelum; et qui non agnoscit in mundo, hoc est, qui intra Ecclesiam, non agnoscit in altera vita; talis est status hominis post mortem.

Poznámky pod čarou:

Earth" is a general word that can be thought of as a container for other more specific words, as ground, field, or garden. Each of these means a person in an ascending series as that person learns truths from the Bible, thinks about them, and tries to apply them to life. The series represents the way of becoming good and wise. "Earth" and "ground" are terms that can go either way, as in the parable of the sower (Matthew 13:4-8) there was both good ground and bad ground, but "field" and "garden" mean minds that are regenerating towards good. "Earth" in the Bible can mean a person or a group of like-minded people as in a church. But it refers specifically to the external of the person's mind, or of the general thought of the group. If heaven and earth are mentioned together, then both the internals and externals of the mind are meant – something to note when reading the creation story.

In Revelation the word "earth" is used both as a ground level as we use it in its natural sense and also as the sense of a group. The action in this book takes place in the great middle zone of the spiritual world, where people first go and where they are sorted out. There are both evil people and good there, and sometimes at the end of a church the evil can have great influence before a great judgment comes. This level of the spiritual realm is called the "earth" to which the dragon was cast down (Revelation 12:9) and to which the stars fell (Revelation 12:4). The "earth" that swallowed the dragon’s flood means those still-sincere people within the church who discounted the flood of the dragon's falsities (Revelation 12:15).