Arcana Coelestia #3030
3030. 'Perhaps the woman is not willing to go after me to this land' means doubt in the natural man as to whether that affection was separable. This is clear from the meaning of 'the woman' as truth, here truth from the natural, that was to be joined to the Divine good of the Rational, though as all joining together is effected by means of affection, as stated above in 3024, 'the women' accordingly means the affection for that truth; and from the meaning of 'going after me', or following, 'to this land' as being separated from the natural and joined to the Rational, for 'land' here, as above in 3026, means the good of love which belongs to the Rational. The fact that doubt is meant may be seen from the remark 'perhaps she is not willing to'. From what has been stated above one may see what is embodied in these words and those that follow to verse 8, and beyond that. Yet to make them even more intelligible let a little more be stated here.
[2] The genuine rational derives its being from good but its manifestation from truth. Good flows in by an internal route, but truth by an external route. In this manner good joins itself in the rational to truth and causes it to be the rational. Unless good is joined there to truth it is not the rational, even though it may seem to be because of the person's ability to reason, 1944. This is the normal way in which the rational is formed with man.
[3] Now because the Lord was born like any other, and was willing to be taught like any other, He was also willing in a like manner to make His Rational Divine, that is to say, to make it Divine as regards good through influx from His Divine by the internal route, and as regards truth through influx by the external route. The Rational was therefore so formed as regards good that it was in a state ready to receive truth. (That forming is meant by the opening words of this chapter, 'Abraham, being old, was advanced in years, and Jehovah blessed Abraham in all things', namely, when the state was reached for the Lord's Human to become Divine, and all things had been re-arranged by the Lord into Divine order, see 3016, 3017.) And there now follows the consideration that truth was to be joined to the good of the Rational. And this, as has been stated, was effected in the normal way, that is, by means of facts and cognitions summoned from the natural man.
[4] The good itself of the rational which is formed by the internal route is the ground itself, while truth is the seed that is to be sown in the ground. The genuine rational is born in no other way. So that the Rational might be formed in the same way in the Lord and be made Divine by His own power, the Lord came into the world and was willing to be born like any other. Otherwise he could have assumed a human presence without being born at all as He had done on many occasions in ancient times when He had appeared to men. These are the considerations contained in this chapter, namely the following: The way in which truth was summoned from the natural man to be joined to the good of the rational; and - since the good there was Divine - the truth there was to become Divine too. To man, especially to one who does not know that the rational is anything distinct and separate from the natural and who therefore does not know that the rational is formed by consecutive stages, by means of cognitions, all of this is so utterly obscure as to be unintelligible to him. But to those who do know something about the rational and the natural man, and have some enlightenment, such considerations are among those that are quite easy to grasp. And angels see them plainly as if in broad daylight. To gain some idea of them, see the following points that have been stated and shown already:
As to truth the rational is formed through influx into knowledge and cognitions, 1495, 1563, 1900, 1964.
It is not born from knowledge and cognitions but from the affection for these, 1895, 1900.
Knowledge and cognitions are merely vessels for good, 1469, 1496.
Empty facts have to be destroyed, 1489, 1492, 1499, 1500.
In the rational the affection for good is present as the soul within the affection for truth, 2072.
What the affection for rational truth and for factual truth are, 2503.
By means of cognitions the external man is joined to the internal man, that is, the rational man to the natural man, when cognitions are implanted in the celestial things of love and charity, 1450, 1451, 1453, 1616.
2 Korinther 5
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Wir wissen aber, so unser irdisch Haus dieser Hütte zerbrochen wird, daß wir einen Bau haben, von Gott erbauet, ein Haus, nicht mit Händen gemacht, das ewig ist, im Himmel.
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Und über demselbigen sehnen wir uns auch nach unserer Behausung, die vom Himmel ist, und uns verlanget, daß wir damit überkleidet werden,
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So doch, wo wir bekleidet und nicht bloß erfunden werden.
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Denn dieweil wir in der Hütte sind, sehnen wir uns und sind beschweret, sintemal wir wollten lieber nicht entkleidet, sondern überkleidet werden, auf daß das Sterbliche würde verschlungen von dem Leben.
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Der uns aber zu demselbigen bereitet, das ist Gott, der uns das Pfand, den Geist gegeben hat.
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Wir sind aber getrost allezeit und wissen, daß, dieweil wir im Leibe wohnen, so wallen wir dem HERRN.
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Denn wir wandeln im Glauben und nicht im Schauen.
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Wir sind aber getrost und haben vielmehr Lust, außer dem Leibe zu wallen und daheim zu sein bei dem HERRN.
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Darum fleißigen wir uns auch, wir sind daheim oder wallen, daß wir ihm wohlgefallen.
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Denn wir müssen alle offenbar werden vor dem Richterstuhl Christi, auf daß ein jeglicher empfange, nachdem er gehandelt hat bei Leibesleben, es sei gut oder böse.
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Dieweil wir denn wissen, daß der HERR zu fürchten ist, fahren wir schön mit den Leuten; aber Gott sind wir offenbar. Ich hoffe aber, daß wir auch in eurem Gewissen offenbar sind.
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Daß wir uns nicht abermal loben, sondern euch eine Ursache geben, zu rühmen von uns, auf daß ihr habet zu rühmen wider die, so sich nach dem Ansehen rühmen und nicht nach dem Herzen.
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Denn tun wir zu viel, so tun wir's Gott; sind wir mäßig, so sind wir euch mäßig.
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Denn die Liebe Christi dringet uns also, sintemal wir halten, daß, so einer für alle gestorben ist, so sind sie alle gestorben.
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Und er ist darum für sie alle gestorben, auf daß die, so da leben, hinfort nicht ihnen selbst leben, sondern dem, der für sie gestorben und auferstanden ist.
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Darum von nun an kennen wir niemand nach dem Fleisch; und ob wir auch Christum gekannt haben nach dem Fleisch, so kennen wir ihn doch jetzt nicht mehr.
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Darum, ist jemand in Christo, so ist er eine neue Kreatur. Das Alte ist vergangen; siehe, es ist alles neu worden.
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Aber das alles von Gott, der uns mit ihm selber versöhnet hat durch Jesum Christum und das Amt gegeben, das die Versöhnung prediget.
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Denn Gott war in Christo und versöhnete die Welt mit ihm selber und rechnete ihnen ihre Sünden nicht zu und hat unter uns aufgerichtet das Wort von der Versöhnung.
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So sind wir nun Botschafter an Christi Statt; denn Gott vermahnet durch uns. So bitten wir nun an Christi Statt: Lasset euch versöhnen mit Gott!
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Denn er hat den, der von keiner Sünde wußte, für uns zur Sünde gemacht, auf daß wir würden in ihm die Gerechtigkeit, die vor Gott gilt.
