4. QUESTION 4.

Does not the Son, by whom Jehovah is said to have created the worlds Hebrews 1 and 11, mean the same thing as the Divine Wisdom in Jeremiah 10:12; 51:15, so that the essential Wisdom or Logos of God in first principles has now become the Truth or Logos of God in ultimates?

ANSWER

It does follow that the Lord, that is, the Word or Divine Truth by which all things were made which were made, and by which the world was created, John 1:3, was the Divine Wisdom which together with the Divine Love constitutes one Divine Essence, thus one and the same God; for the Divine Wisdom is also the Divine Truth, since all the parts of Wisdom are truths. Being their very containant, Wisdom brings forth nothing but truths, and so this is entirely in keeping with Jeremiah 10:12; 2:15. This is also how the passage in David, Psalms 33:6, should be understood. The 'breath of His mouth' is also wisdom, and 'the Word' there is Divine Love and Divine Wisdom together, for it is said, 'And the Word was God', John 1:1.

890. 21:7 "He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son." This symbolically means that people who overcome the evils, that is, the Devil, in themselves, and do not succumb when tempted by adherents of Babylon or followers of the dragon, shall enter into heaven and dwell there in the Lord and have the Lord in them.

To overcome here means to overcome evils, that is, the Devil, in oneself, and not to succumb when tempted by adherents of Babylon or followers of the dragon. To overcome evils in oneself is also to overcome the Devil, because the Devil means all evil. To inherit all things means, symbolically, to enter heaven and to possess then the goods that are in it from the Lord, thus to possess, as a son and heir, goods received from the Lord which are the Lord's. Heaven is therefore called an inheritance in Matthew 19:29 and 25:34.

"I will be his God and he shall be My son" means, symbolically, that in heaven these people will be in the Lord and have the Lord in them, as in no. 883 above where a similar statement is found, only there it says that they shall be His people, and He Himself will be with them their God.

People who turn directly to the Lord are His children because they are born anew from Him, that is to say, regenerated or reborn. Therefore the Lord called His disciples children (John 12:36; 13:33; 21:5).