3. It will also be stated here, in a few words, what is treated of in general and in particular concerning the Lord in all the Prophets of the Old Testament, from Isaiah even to Malachi:
1 The Lord would come into the world in the fulness of time; that is, when He was no longer known by the Jews, and consequently when nothing of the Church remained; and unless He should then come into the world and reveal Himself, mankind would perish in eternal death; as He Himself says in John,
If ye believe not that I am, ye shall die in your sins. John viii 24.
2 The Lord would come into the world to accomplish a last judgment, and thereby subjugate the then dominant hells. This was effected by combats, that is, by temptations admitted into His Human from the mother, and by continual victories then; and unless the hells should be so subjugated, no man could possibly be saved.
3 The Lord would come into the world to glorify His Human, that is, to unite it to the Divine which was in Him from conception.
4 The Lord would come into the world to establish a new Church, which should acknowledge Him as Redeemer and Saviour and by love and faith towards Him be redeemed and saved.
5 He would then also arrange heaven in order, so that it might make one with the Church.
6 The passion of the cross would be the last combat or temptation, by which He would fully conquer the hells and fully glorify His Human.
That the Word treats of no other subjects will be seen in the small treatise which is to follow, concerning THE SACRED SCRIPTURE.
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