3. Aquellos de la iglesia que han negado al Señor, reconociendo tan sólo al Padre, y que se han confirmado en semejante fe, están fuera del cielo, y puesto que en ellos no tiene lugar influjo alguno del cielo, donde el Señor solo es adorado, son gradualmente privados de la facultad de pensar la verdad de cualquier cosa, y acaban por quedar o bien como mudos o bien hablando necedades, con el paso vacilante, los brazos pendientes y vibrando como si les faltare fuerzas en las articulaciones. Por otra parte, aquellos que han negado la Divinidad del Señor, reconociendo tan sólo su Humanidad, como los Socinianos, están igualmente fuera del cielo; son conducidos adelante un poco hacia la derecha, y despedidos en la profundidad, siendo así enteramente separados del resto del mundo cristiano. Pero los que se dicen creer en una Divinidad invisible, a la que llaman Ente del Universo (Ens Universi) y a la que atribuyen todas las cosas, rechazando la fe en el Señor, se aperciben de que no creen en Dios alguno, porque la Divinidad invisible es para ellos lo mismo que la Naturaleza en sus rudimentos, los cuales no pueden ser objeto de fe ni de amor porque no alcanza a ellos el pensamiento. Estos son desterrados con aquellos que se llaman naturalistas. Otra cosa sucede con los que han nacido fuera de la iglesia, llamados gentiles, de quienes hablaremos más adelante.
Juan 14
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No se turbe vuestro corazón; creéis en Dios, creed también en mí.
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En la Casa de mi Padre muchas moradas hay; de otra manera os lo hubiera dicho; porque voy a aparejaros el lugar.
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Y si me fuere, y os aparejare el lugar, vendré otra vez, y os tomaré a mí mismo, para que donde yo estoy, vosotros también estéis.
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Así que sabéis a dónde yo voy; y sabéis el camino.
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Le dice Tomás: Señor, no sabemos a dónde vas, ¿cómo, pues, podemos saber el camino?
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Jesús le dice: YO SOY el camino, y la verdad, y la vida; nadie viene al Padre, sino por mí.
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Si me conocieseis, también a mi Padre conoceríais; y desde ahora le conocéis, y le habéis visto.
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Le dice Felipe: Señor, muéstranos el Padre, y nos basta.
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Jesús le dice: ¿Tanto tiempo hace que estoy con vosotros, y no me has conocido, Felipe? El que me ha visto, ha visto (también) al Padre; ¿cómo, pues, dices tú: Muéstranos el Padre?
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¿No crees que yo soy en el Padre, y el Padre en mí? Las palabras que yo os hablo, no las hablo de mí mismo; mas el Padre que permanece en mí, él hace las obras.
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Creedme que yo soy en el Padre, y el Padre en mí; de otra manera, creedme por las mismas obras.
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De cierto, de cierto os digo: El que en mí cree, las obras que yo hago también él las hará; y mayores que éstas hará; porque yo voy al Padre.
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Y todo lo que pidiereis al Padre en mi nombre, esto haré, para que el Padre sea glorificado en el Hijo.
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Si algo pidiereis en mi nombre, yo lo haré.
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Si me amáis, guardad mis mandamientos;
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y yo rogaré al Padre, y os dará otro Consolador, para que permanece con vosotros para siempre:
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Al Espíritu de Verdad, al cual el mundo no puede recibir, porque no le ve, ni le conoce; pero vosotros le conocéis; porque permanece con vosotros, y será en vosotros.
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No os dejaré huérfanos; vendré a vosotros.
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Aún un poquito, y el mundo no me verá más; sin embargo vosotros me veréis; porque yo vivo vosotros también viviréis.
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Aquel día vosotros conoceréis que yo soy en mi Padre, y vosotros en mí, y yo en vosotros.
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El que tiene mis mandamientos, y los guarda, aquel es el que me ama; y el que me ama, será amado de mi Padre, y yo le amaré, y me manifestaré a él.
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Le dice Judas, no el Iscariote: Señor, ¿qué hay porque te hayas de manifestar a nosotros, y no al mundo?
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Respondió Jesús, y le dijo: El que me ama, mi palabra guardará; y mi Padre le amará, y vendremos a él, y haremos con él morada.
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El que no me ama, no guarda mis palabras; y la palabra que habéis oído, no es mía, sino del Padre que me envió.
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Estas cosas os he hablado estando con vosotros.
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Mas el Consolador, el Espíritu Santo, al cual el Padre enviará en mi nombre, aquel os enseñará todas las cosas, y os recordará todas las cosas que os he dicho.
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La paz os dejo, mi paz os doy; no como el mundo la da, yo os la doy. No se turbe vuestro corazón, ni tenga miedo.
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Habéis oído cómo yo os he dicho: Voy, y vengo a vosotros. Si me amaseis, ciertamente os gozaríais, (porque he dicho) que voy al Padre; porque el Padre mayor es que yo.
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Y ahora os lo he dicho antes que se haga, para que cuando se hiciere, creáis.
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Ya no hablaré mucho con vosotros, porque viene el príncipe de este mundo; mas no tiene nada en mí.
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Pero para que conozca el mundo que amo al Padre, y como el Padre me dio el mandamiento, así hago. Levantaos, vamos de aquí,
Arcana Coelestia #6854
6854. 'And I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians' means that He would stoop down to them to release them from the power of false factual knowledge, which tries to destroy the truths of the Church. This is clear from the meaning of 'coming down' as stooping down, dealt with below; from the meaning of 'to deliver' as to release, for one who releases people from falsities delivers or sets them free; from the meaning of 'the hand' as the power, dealt with in 878, 3387, 3563, 4931-4937, 5544; and from the meaning of 'the Egyptians' as false factual knowledge, which is opposed to the Church's truths, dealt with in 6651, 6679, 6683, and so which tries to destroy them. As regards the Lord's coming down, the situation is that the Lord is said to come or stoop down when He comes to judgement, 1311, and also when He comes down to lower things, in this instance to those belonging to the spiritual Church, who are meant by 'the children of Israel'. For the subject in the internal sense is the way in which those people are molested by falsities, at which time they undergo temptations, and the way in which after that they are set free in order that they may be led into heaven.
[2] But the contents of the internal sense of this verse and of those that follow hold an even deeper mystery which the Church does not yet know about and which must therefore be disclosed. Those who are termed spiritual are people for whom only the understanding part of their mind, not the will part, can be regenerated. In the understanding part of their mind the Lord therefore implants a new will, a will which conforms to the teachings that compose the faith of their Church. These people, that is to say, spiritual ones such as these, were saved solely by the Lord's Coming into the world. The reason why is that the Divine passing through heaven, which was the Divine Human before the Lord's Coming, could not reach them; for to be sure the teachings of their Church were for the most part not truths, and consequently the good in their will was not good either, 6427. Since those people could be saved solely by the Lord's Coming, they could not be raised into heaven before then. They were therefore kept in the meantime on the lower earth, in places there which in the Word are called 'pits'. This lower earth was besieged on every side by the hells where there were falsities, by which they were molested greatly during that time. In spite of this however the Lord protected them. But after the Lord came into the world and made the Human within Himself Divine, He set free those who were in the pits there and raised them to heaven. From these He also formed the spiritual heaven which is the second heaven. This is what is meant by the Lord's descent into the lower parts 1 and by His deliverance of those who had been bound.
[3] This is the even deeper mystery that is described in the internal sense of this verse and of those that follow. See what has been shown already regarding those who are spiritual,
The spiritual are in obscurity so far as the truth and good of faith are concerned, 2708, 2715, 2718, 2831, 2849, 2935, 2937, 3241, 3833, 6289.
Their obscurity is lightened by the Lord's Divine Human, 2716, 4402.
Because they are in obscurity so far as the truth and good of faith are concerned they are under strong attack from the hells; but the Lord is constantly protecting them, 6419.
Those who are spiritual cannot have the will part of their mind regenerated, only the understanding part; and there the Lord forms a new will, 863, 875, 895, 927, 918, 1023, 1043, 1044, 2156, 4328, 4493, 5113.
The spiritual were saved by the Lord's Coming into the world, 2833, 2834, 3969.
[4] Various places in the prophetical part of the Word mention 'the bound' or 'the bound in the pit' and the fact that the Lord delivered them. The bound' should be taken to mean specifically those spoken of just above, as in Isaiah,
I Jehovah have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, because I will guard you, and give you to be a covenant of the people, 2 a light of the nations, to open the blind eyes, to bring the bound out of prison, out of the dungeon-house those who sit in darkness. Isaiah 42:6-7.
In the same prophet,
I have guarded you, and I have given you as covenant of the people - to restore the land; to share out the devastated inheritances; to say to the bound, Go out; to those who are in darkness, Reveal yourselves. They will feed along the ways, and on all slopes will their pasture be. Isaiah 49:8-9.
This plainly refers to the Lord. 'The bound' stands in particular for those who were held back on the lower earth until the Lord's Coming, when they were raised up to heaven, and in general for all who are governed by good, yet are held back as though bound by falsities, from which however they wish to break away.
[5] In Zechariah,
Through the blood of your covenant I will let out your bound ones from the pit. Zechariah 9:11.
In Isaiah,
They will surely be gathered together, the bound ones in the pit, and they will be shut up in the dungeon; after a multitude of days they will be visited. Isaiah 24:21.
'The bound ones in the pit' stands for the same people. And in addition to these places the same meaning can be seen from the following words in Isaiah,
Jehovah has anointed Me to bring good tidings to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the broken in heart; to preach liberty to captives, to those who are bound, to him who is blind; to proclaim the year of Jehovah's good pleasure. Isaiah 61:1-2.
And elsewhere,
The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; those dwelling in the land of the shadow of death, upon them has the light shone out. Isaiah 9:2.
Notas a pie de página:
1. i.e. hell
2. 'The Latin means for the people but the Hebrew means of the people, which Swedenborg has in some other places where he quotes this verse.
