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DOCTRINE OF HOLY SCRIPTURE 18847. The external things of the temple at Jerusalem representedexternal things of the Word, which belong to the sense of its letter.This is because the temple represented the same as did thetabernacle, namely, heaven and the church, and conse quently theWord. That the temple at Jerusalem represented the Lord’s Divinehuman, he himself teaches in John:Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up; he spake of thetemple of his body (John 2:19, 21).Where the Lord is meant, there also is meant the Word, for theLord is the Word. Now as the interior things of the templerepresented interior things of heaven and the church (and thereforeof the Word), its exterior things represented and signified exteriorthings of heaven and the church, and therefore exterior things ofthe Word, which belong to the sense of its letter. Concerning theexterior things of the temple we read:That they were built of whole stone, not hewn, and within of cedar; andthat all its walls within were carved with cherubim, palm trees, and openingsof flowers; and that the floor was overlaid with gold (1 Kings 6:7, 29–30);all of which things also signify external things of the Word, whichare holy things of the sense of the letter.48. The Word in its glory was represented by the Lord when hewas transfigured. Concerning the Lord as transfigured before Peter,James, and John, we read:That his face did shine as the sun, and his garments became white as thelight. That Moses and Elias appeared talking with him. That a bright cloudovershadowed the disciples; and that a voice was heard out of the cloud,saying, This is my beloved son, hear ye him (Matt. 17:1–5).I have been instructed that the Lord then represented the Word;“his face that did shine as the sun,” his Divine good; “his garmentsthat became as the light,” his Divine truth; “Moses and Elias,” thehistorical and the prophetical Word; “Moses,” the Word that waswritten by him and the historical Word in general, and “Elias,” the
DOCTRINE OF HOLY SCRIPTURE 189prophetical Word; and the “bright cloud that overshadowed thedisciples,” the Word in the sense of the letter; and therefore a voicewas heard from this cloud which said, “This is my beloved son,hear ye him.” For all utterances and answers from heaven are madeexclusively by means of ultimate things such as are in the sense ofthe letter of the Word. For they are made in fullness, from theLord.49. So far we have shown that the Word in the natural sense,which is the sense of the letter, is in its holiness and its fullness.Something shall now be said to show that in this sense the Word isalso in its power. How great and of what nature is the power ofDivine truth in the heavens and also on earth, is evident from whathas been said in Heaven and Hell concerning the power of theangels of heaven (n. 228–233). The power of Divine truth isdirected especially against falsities and evils, thus against the hells.The fight against these must be waged by means of truths from thesense of the letter of the Word. Moreover it is by means of thetruths in a man that the Lord has the power to save him; for man isreformed and regenerated and is at the same time taken out of helland introduced into heaven, by means of truths from the sense ofthe letter of the Word. This power the Lord took upon himself,even as to his Divine human, after he had fulfilled all things of theWord down to its ultimates.[2] Therefore when by the passion of the cross he was about tofulfill those which remained, he said to the chief priest,Hereafter ye shall see the son of man sitting at the right hand of power, andcoming in the clouds of heaven (Matt. 26:64; Mark 14:62).The “son of man” is the Lord as to the Word; the “clouds ofheaven” are the Word in the sense of the letter; to “sit at the righthand of God” is omnipotence by means of the Word (as also inMark 16:19). The Lord’s power from the ultimate things of truthwas represented by the Nazirites in the Jewish Church; and bySamson, of whom it is said that he was a Nazirite from his mother’s
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