Heavenly Doctrine (Tafel) n. 302

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302. The glorification of the Lord's Human and the subjugation of the hells, were effected through temptations. The Lord underwent more grievous temptations than all others, nos. 1663, 1668, 1787, 2776, 2786, 2795, 2816, 4295, 9528. The Lord fought from the Divine Love towards the human race, nos. 1690, 1691, 1812, 1813, 1820. The Lord's Love was the salvation of the human race, no. 1820. The hells fought against the Lord's Love, no. 1820. The Lord alone, from His own power, fought against the hells, and overcame them, nos. 1692, 1813, 2816, 4295, 8273, 9937. The Lord alone thereby became Justice and Merit, nos. 1813, 2025-2027, 9715, 9809, 10019. The Lord's last temptation was in Gethsemane and upon the cross; and then also [He gained] the complete victory, through which He subjugated the hells, and at the same time glorified His Human, nos. 2776, 2803, 2813, 2814, 10655, 10659, 10828. The Lord could not be tempted as to the Divine Itself, nos. 2795, 2803, 2813, 2814. Wherefore He assumed an infirm Human from the mother, into which He admitted temptations, nos. 1414, 1444, 1573, 5041, 5157, 7193, 9315. Through temptations and victories He expelled everything hereditary from the mother, and He put off the human from her, till at length He was no longer her son, nos. 2159, 2574, 2649, 3036, 10830. In temptations, Jehovah, who was in Him, appeared as absent, and indeed in the proportion in which He was in the human from the mother, no. 1815. This state was the state of the Lord's humiliation, nos. 1785, 1999, 2159, 6866. Through temptations and victories the Lord also arranged into order all things in the heavens, nos. 4287, 4295, 9528, 9937. Through the same temptations and victories He likewise united His Human with His Divine, that is, He glorified His Human, nos. 1725, 1729, 1733, 1737, 3318, 3381, 3382, 4286, 4287, 4295, 9528, 9937.


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