20. Since by the Son of God is meant the Lord as to the Human which He assumed in the world, which is the Divine Human, it is manifest what is meant by the Lord's saying, so often repeated, that He was sent by the Father into the world, and that He came forth from the Father. By being sent into the world by the Father, is meant that He was conceived of Jehovah the Father. That nothing else is meant by "being sent", and by "sent by the Father", appears from all those passages where it is also said, that He did the will and the works of His Father. These works consisted in conquering the hells, glorifying His Human, teaching the Word and establishing a new Church; and these could not possibly be done except by a Human conceived of Jehovah and born of a virgin; that is, unless God had become Man. You will see this if you examine those passages where the terms "sent" and "being sent" are used:
as Matt. x 40 xv 24; Mark ix 37; Luke iv 43; ix 48 x 16 John iii 17, 34; iv 34; v 23, 24, 36-38 vi 29, 39, 40, 44, 57; vii 16, 18, 28, 29; viii 16, 18, 29, 42 ix 4; xi 41, 42 xii 44, 45, 49; xiii 20 xiv 24 xv 21; xvi 5 xvii 3, 8, 21, 23, 25 xx 21;
and also those passages where the Lord calls Jehovah Father.
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