Arcana Coelestia # 10442
10442. 'Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants' means for heaven and the Church's sake. This is clear from the meaning of 'Abraham, Isaac, and Israel' as the Lord's Divine Human, thus that which is Divine and His in heaven and in the Church; and since that which is Divine and the Lord's composes heaven and the Church, the same three also mean heaven and the Church. For 'Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob' in the Word, that these things are meant by them, see 1965, 3305(end), 4615, 6098, 6185, 6276, 6589, 6804, 6847, and also by 'Israel', 4286, 4570, and in the places referred to in 8805, 9340. The fact that such things are meant by 'Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob' is clear from the Lord's words in Matthew,
I say to you that many will come from the east and the west, and will recline with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 8:11.
Here 'reclining with them' means being in heaven where the Lord is. This is also evident from the consideration that names do not pass into heaven but the heavenly and Divine realities meant by them, 10216, 10282.
Arcana Coelestia # 6276
6276. 'And said, The God before whom my fathers walked, Abraham and Isaac' means the Divine from whom internal good and internal truth possessed their life. This is clear from the meaning of 'the God' as the Divine; from the meaning of 'walking' as living or having life, dealt with in 519, 1794; and from the representation of 'Abraham' in the highest sense as the Lord's Divine itself, and of 'Isaac' as His Divine Rational, thus His Internal Human since 'Jacob' is the Lord's Divine Natural or His External Human, all three of which are dealt with in 2011, 3245, 3305 (end), 3439, 4615. But in the representative sense 'Abraham' is internal good and 'Isaac' internal truth, 3703, 6098, 6185. The reason 'Abraham' and 'Isaac' have these meanings in the representative sense is that the actual goodness and truth which are present in the Lord's kingdom come forth from His Divine and His Divine Human. These are what cause the Lord Himself to be present there, so that He Himself is His kingdom.
