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John 14

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1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.

5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?

6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.

8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.

9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?

10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else Believe me for the very works' sake.

12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.

13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.

15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.

16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.

20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

22 Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?

23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

24 He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.

25 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.

26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

27 Peace I leave with you, my Peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

28 Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.

29 And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe.

30 Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.

31 But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.

   

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Apocalypse Explained #1027

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1027. And men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail. That this signifies the falsification of the Word thence, is evident from the signification of blaspheming God, as denoting to falsify the Word (see above, n. 778, 991); and from the signification of the plague of hail, as denoting falsity in the highest degree infernal (see just above), whence comes the falsification of the Word.

Concerning the Precepts of the Decalogue in general:-

[2] Something shall now be said as to how conjunction takes place by means of the precepts of the Decalogue.

The Lord alone conjoins a man to Himself, and not a man himself to the Lord; and the Lord conjoins a man to Himself by this, that he knows, understands, wills, and does those precepts. When he does them, then there is conjunction; but if he does not, he ceases to will them; and when he ceases to will, he ceases also to understand and know them. For what is willing, if a man does not act when it is possible for him so to do. Is it a mere idea? Therefore it follows that conjunction takes place when a man does the precepts of the Decalogue.

But it was said that the Lord alone conjoins a man to Himself, and not a man himself to the Lord; and that conjunction is effected by doing. Hence it follows that the Lord with man does these precepts.

[3] But any one may see that a covenant cannot be entered into, and conjunction effected by its means, unless there is something reciprocal in a man, so that he may not only consent, but also receive. For this end the Lord has endowed man with freedom to will and act as of himself; and that freedom is such that he does not know when he thinks what is true, and does what is good - but that it is within himself, and thus from himself. It is this reciprocity on man's part that brings about conjunction. But because that freedom is from the Lord, and continually from Him, therefore a man must in every respect acknowledge that to think and understand what is true, and to will and to do what is good, is not from himself, but from the Lord, according to what was said upon this subject above (n. 946, 971, 973).

[4] Wherefore when a man conjoins himself to the Lord by the six last precepts, as of himself, then the Lord conjoins Himself to him by the three first precepts, which are, that man acknowledges a God, believes in the Lord, and keeps His name holy. Belief in these things is not with man, however he may suppose that it is, unless he abstains from the evils mentioned in the other table, that is, in the last six precepts, as being sins.

These are the things pertaining to the covenant on the Lord's part and on man's part, by which there is a reciprocal conjunction, which is, that man is in the Lord, and the Lord in man (John 14:20).

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.