THE LORD, BY MEANS OF TEMPTATIONS, AND FULLY BY THE PASSION OF THE CROSS, UNITED THE DIVINE TRUTH TO THE DIVINE GOOD, AND THE DIVINE GOOD TO THE DIVINE TRUTH, THUS THE HUMAN WITH THE DIVINE OF THE FATHER, AND THE DIVINE OF THE FATHER WITH THE HUMAN 1. The Lord, in the world, admitted into Himself, and underwent severe and terrible temptations from the hells, and in the end the last of them, which was the passion of the cross. 2. In the temptations the Lord fought with the hells, but He conquered and subjugated them. 3. He thereby reduced the hells to order, and then at the same time the heavens where angels are and the Church where men are, as the state of the one is at all times dependent on the state of the other. 4. The Lord, furthermore, by means of His temptations and rejections, and finally by the passion on the cross, represented the state of the Church, such as it then was, in respect of Divine Truth, thus in respect of the Word. 5. The Lord, by fulfilling the Word and by means of temptations, and fully by the last of the temptations which was the passion on the cross, glorified the Human. 6. He thus took away the universal damnation threatening not only Christendom but the whole world also and the angelic heaven as well. 7. This is what is meant by His "bearing" and "taking away" the sins of the world. 8. He underwent the temptations and the rejections when in the state of truth separately, which was His state of exinanition. 9. The conjoining of the spiritual man with the natural, and of the natural man with the spiritual, is effected by means of temptations.