25. But there stood by the cross of JESUS His mother, and His mother's sister, Mary the [wife of] Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. 26. JESUS then seeing the mother, and the disciple standing by whom He loved, saith unto His mother, Woman, behold thy Son! 27. Then saith He to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour the disciple, took her to his own. 28. After this JESUS know, ing that all things were now accomplished, that the Scrip ture might be accomplished, saith, I thirst. a 29. Then there was set vessel full of vinegar, but they, filling a sponge with vinegar, and putting it on hyssop, applied it to His mouth. 30. When JESUS therefore received the vinegar, He said, It is finished, and bowing the head, He delivered up the Spirit. 31. The Jews therefore, lest the body should remain on the cross on the sabbath, since it was the preparation, (for that day of the sabbath was a great day) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and they might be taken away. 32. Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other that was crucified with Him. 33. But coming to JESUS, when they saw Him already dead, they brake not His legs. 34. But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced His side, The LORD teaches that charity in effect, or works of charity, constitute the church, v. 25, 26, 27. And from His ardent love of what is good and true, in the church, accepts the falses of ignorance amongst the Gen tiles, when purified, as truths, v. 28, 29, 30. That the perverted church are eager to destroy scientific truth, and do destroy the doctrinals of faith and charity, but not those which are in connection with divine truth, v. 31, S2, 33. They destroy also all the spiritual and natural truth of and immediately there came out blood and water. 35. And he that saw bare witness, and his witness is true, and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe. 36. For these things came to pass, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, a bone of Him shall not be bruised. 37. And again another Scripture saith, They shall look on Him whom they pierced. 38. But after these things, Joseph of Arimathea (being a disciple of JESUS, but secretly for fear of the Jews) besought Pilate that he might take away the body of JESUS, and Pilate gave leave; he came therefore and took the body of JESUS. 39. But there came also Nicodemus, which came to JESUS by night privately, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, a hundred pounds. 40. Then took they the body of JESUS, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as is the custom with the Jews to bury. 41. But in the place where He was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new sepulchre, in which no one as yet was laid. 42. There therefore, by reason of the preparation of the Jews, because the sepulchre was near, they deposited JE SUS. the Word, agreeable to the testimony of those who are principled in the good of love, and who therefore acknowledge the divine truth which teacheth, that scientific truth shall be kept entire, and that nevertheless the perverted church destroyed both the spiritual and natural truth of the Word, v. 34, 35, 36, 37. Nevertheless they, who are principled in the truth of the church, acknowledge the LORD's humanity, and His divine life in the sensual principle, and thus His glorification even to the ultimates of the body, v. 38, 39, 40. For the LORD's final temptation-combats were under the influence of His divine wisdom and intelligence, and thus aided His ascent to the divine good, different from all other men, and therefore He submitted to the process of His glorification, as it had been before representatively figured in the Word, v. 41, 42. * CHAPTER XIX. Extracts from the Theological Writings OF THE HON. EMANUEL SWEDENBORG. PREVIOUS to giving particular extracts concerning the subjects treated of in this chapter, it is thought proper to give the following extract from the Treatise concerning the Lord, in which a general idea is delivered of the spiritual meaning of all the Lord's sufferings. The extract is as follows: That the Lord himself, as being the grand prophet, represented the state of the church as to the Word, is evident from the parts of His passion, as that He was betrayed by Judas; that He was seized and condemned by the chief priests and elders; that they buffeted Him;. that they smote His head with a reed; that they set on it a crown of thorns; that they divided His garments and cast lots upon His coat; that they crucified Him; that they gave Him vinegar to drink; that they pierced His side; that He was buried and rose again on the third day. His being betrayed by Judas signified by the Jewish nation, who at that time were in possession of the Word, for Judas represented that nation: His being seized and condemned by the chief priests and elders, signifies that He was so treated by all that church: Their beating Him with rods, spitting in His face, buffetting Him, and smiting His head with a reed, signified that they had done the like with the Word as to it's divine truths, all which treat of the Lord: Their setting a crown of thorns on His head, signified that they falsified and adulterated those truths: Their dividing His garments and casting lots upon His coat, signified that they dispersed all the truths of the Word, but not it's spiritual sense, which sense was signified by the Lord's coat: Their crucifying Him, signified that they destroyed and profaned the whole Word: Their giving Him vinegar to drink, signified that they gave Him things merely falsified and false, wherefore He did not drink it, and then said, It is consummated: Their piercing His side, signified that they absolutely extinguished every truth of the Word, and all it's good: His burial signified the rejection of the humanity remaining from the mother: His resurrection on the third day, signified glorification. Wherefore after that He was scourged and led out, bearing the crown of thorns, and the purple_garment put on Him by the soldiers, He said, Behold the Man, John xix. 1, 5; this was said, because by Man is signified the church, for by the Son of Man is signified the truth of the church, thus the Word. From these considerations it is now evident, that by bearing iniquities, is meant to represent and effigy in himself sins against the divine truth of the Word, That the Lord sustained and suffered such things as the Son of Man, and not as the Son of God, will be seen in what follows; for the Son of Man signifies the Lord as to the Word. Doc. Lord, 16. Verse 2. And the soldiers platting a crown of thorns, put it on his head. Thorns signify the falses of concupiscencies, and the crown of thorns platted and set on the Lord's head, when he was crucified, and saluted as the king of the Jews, and when he said Behold the man, represented what was the quality of the divine Word at that time in the Jewish church, viz. that it was suffocated by the falses of concupiscencies; the king of the Jews, as He was then saluted by them, signified divine truth; the Lord saying on the occasion, behold the man, signified divine truth, what it's quality is at this day in the church; for the divine truth proceeding from the Lord in heaven is a man, hence heaven is the grand nian, and this from influx and correspóndeuce; hence also the celestial church of the Lord was called man; this church was what the Jews represented; hence it is evident what was signified by the crown of thorns, also by the salutation, king of the Jews, what also by behold the man; and likewise what by the inscription on the cross, Jesus of Nazareth the king of the Jews, viz. that divine truth or the Word was in such aspect, and so treated by the Jews, with whom the church was. A. C. 9144. By the Jews setting a crown of thorns on the Lord's head, and smiting his head, was signified, that they treated with such contumely divine truth itself and divine wisdom; for the Word, which is divine truth itself, and which contains divine wisdom, they falsified and adulterated by traditions, and by applications to themselves, thus desiring a king who might exalt them above all others in the universe; and whereas the kingdom of the Lord was not terrestrial but celestial, therefore they perverted all things of the Word, which were said of him, and ridiculed the things which were predicted of him; this was what was re presented by their setting a crown of thorns on his head and by smiting his head. Ap. Ex. 577. Verses 23, 24. Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part, and the coat, &c. &c. He who reads these words, supposes that they involve no more of arcanum, than that the garments were divided among the soldiers, and that a lot was cast on the coat, when yet singular things were representative and significative of things divine, viz. that the garments were divided into four parts, also that the coat was not divided, but the lot was cast upon it, especially that the coat was without seam and wrought from above throughout; for by the coat was signified the divine truth of the Lord, which, as being single [unicum] and derived from good, was represented by the coat without seam and wrought from above throughout: It was likewise represented, that the Lord did not suffer divine truth to be separated into parts, as was done with inferior truths of the church by the Jews. A. C. 4677. Who cannot see, if he thinks from reason in any degree enlightened, that the above words signified things divine, and that otherwise they would not have been noticed by David, where it is written, They divided my garments amongst them, and upon my coat they cast lots, Psalm xxii. 19; but what the words signify cannot be known without the internal sense, thus not without knowledge thence derived, concerning what is signified by garments, what by casting lots upon them or dividing them, what by a coat, and it's being without seam or woven throughout, and what by soldiers; from the internal sense it is evident that by garments are signified truths, and that by the garments of the Lord divine truths; by casting lots and dividing, to pull asunder and to dissipate them; by a coat divine truth spiritual from divine-celestial truth, the like as was signified by the coat of Aaron, since Aaron represented the Lord, so likewise by it's be ing without seam and woven from above throughout; the coat being not divided, signified, that divine truth spiritual, proxi mately proceeding from divine truth celestial, could not be dissipated, because that truth is the internal truth of the Word, such as the angels have in heaven; it's being said that soldiers did this, signifies that it was done by those who fought in favour of truths, thus by the Jews themselves, who were in possession of the Word, who nevertheless were of such a quality that they dissipated it; for they had the Word, and still were not willing to be thence instructed, that the Lord was the Messiah and the Son of God who was to come, nor in any other internal thing of the Word, but only in what is external, which also they made to favour their loves, which were the loves of self and of the |