JEHOVAH GOD SUCCESSIVELY PUT OFF THE HUMAN FROM THE MOTHER, AND PUT ON THE HUMAN FROM THE FATHER; AND THUS HE MADE THAT HUMAN DIVINE

1. The soul of the offspring is from the father, and in the womb it clothes itself with the body from the substance of the mother; analogically as seed in the earth, and from the substance of the earth. 2. Hence the image of the father is implanted in the body, first obscurely, then more and more evidently, as the son applies himself to the studies and offices of the father. 3. The body of Christ, so far as it was from the substance of the mother, was not life in itself, but a recipient of life from the Divine in Him, which was Life in itself. 4. Christ, as He successively exalted the Divine Wisdom and the Divine Love in Himself, took upon Himself, the Divine Life which is Life in itself. 5. Christ, in the degree that He took upon Him life in Himself, from the Divine in Himself, in that degree He put off the human from the mother, and put on the Human from the Father. 6. Christ, by this means, made His Human Divine, and from the Son of Mary He made Himself the Son of God. 7. Jesus Christ could thus and not otherwise be in angels and men, and angels and men in Him. 8. But because Mary, His mother, afterwards represented the church, that in this respect she is to be called His mother. 9. Christ, when He was in the human of the mother, was in the state of exinanition, and could be tempted, reproached, and suffer. 10. In this state He prayed to the Father, because He was then as though absent from Him.