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At tayo'y magsitindig at magsisampa tayo sa Bethel; at gagawa ako roon ng dambana sa Dios na sumagot sa akin sa araw ng aking kahapisan, at sumaakin sa daan na aking nilakaran.
Genesis 35:3
Arcana Coelestia #4577
4577. 'And to your seed after you I will give the land' means Divine Truth when made over [to the Natural] as its own. This is clear from the meaning of 'seed' as the truth of faith, dealt with in 1025, 1447, 1610, 1940, but in the highest sense Divine Truth, 3038; and from the meaning of 'giving the land' as making over good, dealt with immediately above in 4576; so that in the highest sense 'giving the land to your seed' means making Divine Good over to Divine Truth. But the reason why Divine Truth was made over is that before the Lord's Human was glorified it was Divine Truth, which is why the Lord speaks of Himself in John 14:6 as 'the Truth', and in Genesis 3:1 'He is called 'the seed of the woman'. But after the Lord's Human was glorified it was made Divine Good. At this point it was from Him as Divine Good that Divine Truth went forth, and goes forth still. Such Divine Truth is the Spirit of Truth whom the Lord will send, referred to in John 14:16-17; 15:26-27; 16:13-15; see 3704. From this it may be seen that 'to your seed after you' in the highest sense means Divine Truth when made over to Him as His own, and also that Divine Truth goes forth from Divine Good which He is and is made over as their own to those in whom good and its partner truth are present.
John 17
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Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also Glorify you;
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even as you gave him authority over all flesh, he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
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This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
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I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.
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Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.
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I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.
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Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me are from you,
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for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came forth from you, and they have believed that you sent me.
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I pray for them. I don't pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.
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All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.
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I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.
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While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. Those whom you have given me I have kept. None of them is lost, except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
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But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.
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I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
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I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.
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They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.
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Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.
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As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world.
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For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
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Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who believe in me through their word,
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that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.
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The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even as we are one;
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I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me.
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Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.
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Righteous Father, the world hasn't known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.
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I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them."
