"both glorified it, and will glorify it again," xii. 28. that to glorify is to make the Divine, may be feen, N. 1603. 1999. By Circumcifion in the Antient Church, there is no other Thing reprefented and fignified, than that Man fhould be purified from the Loves of Self and the World, and this alfo fucceffively and continually, as may be feen N. 2039. 2046. at the End. 2049. 2056, especially when he was born a-new, or when he is regenerated, for then the Lord flows in by the internal Way, that is, by the Good of Confcience, and feparates thofe Things fucceffively and continually, which adhere from the Hereditary, and from actual Evil.

2633. His Son being eight Days old, that it fignifies Beginning and Continuance, appears from the Signification of the eighth Day, on which they were circumcifed, which is all Manner of Beginning, fo Continuance of which N. 2044.

2634. As God had commanded him, that it fignifies according to Divine Order, appears from the Signification of, God to command, or of Commandments; the Commandments of God, or thofe Things which God has commanded, are all and fingular of the Divine Order, infomuch that the Divine Order cannot be other than the perpetual Commandment of God; wherefore to live according to the Commandments of God, and in the Commandments of God, is according to the Divine Order and in the Divine Order; hence it is, that, by God commanded him, here is fignified according to Divine Order. It was according to Divine Order, that every Male Child fhould be circumcised at eight Days old, not that Circumcifion could do any Thing, or that they who are circumcifed enter into the Kingdom of the Lord before the Uncircumcifed; but because such a Rite in the Church Reprefentative correfponded to the Purification of the Heart, of which Correfpondence, by the Divine Mercy of the Lord, we shall speak of elfe-where. That the Heart, that is, the Interiors of Man, are to be fucceffively and continually purified from the Evils which are of Lufts, and from the Falfities which are of Phantafies from thence, is according to Divine Order, the Commandments concerning the Purification of the Heart are all and fingular of the Divine Order; fo much therefore as Man lives in thofe Precepts, fo much he lives in the Divine Order; and fo much as he lives in this, fo much in him are all Things difpofed by the Lord according to the Order which is by Him in the Heavens, as well with regard to his Rationals as Scientifics; hence Man becomes a little Heaven correfpondent to the Greatest.

2635. Ver. 5. And Abraham was an hundred Years old when his Son Ifaac was born unto him. Abraham was an hundred Years old, fignifies the full State of Union. When Ifaac was born unto him, fignifies when the Rational of the Lord was made Divine.

2636. Abraham was an hundred Years old, that it fignifies the full State of Union, appears from the Signification of an Hundred, which is Fulness, of which presently in the following, and from the Signification of Years, which is State, of which N. 482. 487. 488. 493. 893, here the State of Union. What the full State of the Union of the Divine of the Lord with

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his Human is, or which is the fame Thing, with his Rational, for the Human begins from the Intimate of the Rational, N. 2106. 2194, cannot fo well be declared to the Apprehenfion, but yet may be illuftrated by thofe Things which in Man are called a full State when he is reformed and regenerated. It is known, that he cannot be regenerated but in an adult Age, because he then firft becomes capable by Reafon and Judgment, and fo can receive Good and Truth from the Lord; before he comes into that State, he is prepared by the Lord for it, that fuch Things may be infinuated into him, that may ferve him for a Ground of receiving the Seeds of Truth and Good, which are more States of Innocence and Charity, as alfo the Knowledge of Truth and Good, and from thence Thoughts, which is done in many Years before he is regenerated; when a Man is inftructed in thefe, and fo is prepared, then his State is faid to be full, for then the Interiors are difpofed to receive; in Man, all thefe Things with which he is endowed by the Lord before Regeneration, and by which he is regenerated, are called Remains, which in the Word are fignified by the Number Ten, N. 576. 1738. 2284; likewife by an Hundred, when there is the full State for Regeneration, N. 1988. Thefe Things may be taken for an Illuftration of what is fignified by the full State of the Union of the Human with the Divine in the Lord, namely, when He by his own Power, by the Fights of Temptations and Victories, and by the Powers of Divine Wisdom and Understanding, acquired to himself fo much of the Divine in the Human, that is, in the Rational, that he might unite the Divine Itfelf to the Divine acquired. That this State might be reprefented, it was fo order'd, that Ifaac fhould not be born to Abraham, altho' he continued many Years in the Land of Canaan, before he was an hundred Years old. These are the Secrets which are contained in the Number of an hundred Years. That the Number an Hundred fignifies Plenitude, may also appear from other Places in the Word, as in Ifaiah, "There fhall be no more thence an Infant of "Days, nor an old Man that hath not filled his Days; for the Child fhall "die an hundred Years old, but the Sinner being an hundred Years old fhall "be accurfed," xlv. 20. where an Hundred is manifeftly put for Fulness, for it is faid, there shall be no more an Infant of Days, nor an old Man that hath not filled his Days, and the Child and the Sinner of an hundred Years old, that is, when his State is full. In Matthew, " And every one that "hath forfaken Houses, or Brethren, or Sifters, or Father, or Mother, or "Wife, or Children, or Lands for my Name's Sake, fhall receive an "Hundred-fold, and fhall inherit everlasting Life," xix. 29. Mark x. 29, 30. where an Hundred-fold is put for Fulnefs, or good Measure, preffed down, fhook together and running over, Luke vi. 38. In Luke, " And other fell "on good Ground, and fprang up, and bare Fruit an Hundred-fold," viii. 8. Matt. xii. 8. 23. Mark iv. 20. where alfo an Hundred is put for Fulness, which Number would not have been faid, unless it had fignified that. In like Manner where the Lord fpeaks of the "Debtors, that one owed an

bundred

"bundred Measures of Oil, and another an hundred Measures of Wheat," Luke xvi. 5, 6, 7. fo alfo in other Places where an Hundred is named; fo it is with a Thoufand, of which Number fee N. 2575.

2637. When his Son Ifaac was born unto him, that it fignifies when the Rational of the Lord was made Divine, appears from the Signification of, to be born, which is, to exift, of which N. 2584. 2621. 2629; and from the Representation of Ifaac, which is the Divine Rational, of which N. 2630; this is faid to be born to Abraham, when his Divine was made holy, as alfo above, Ver. "Abraham called the Name of his Son which was born unto "him," as may be feen N. 2628.

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2638. Ver. 6, 7. And Sarah faid, God hath made me to laugh, fo that all that bear will laugh with me. And he faid, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given Children fuck? for I have borne him a Son in his old Age. Sarah faid, fignifies Perception from the Divine fpiritual. God hath made me to laugh, fignifies the Affection of Truth celestial. So that all that hear will laugh with me, fignifies that all there fhould have an Affection. And she said, fignifies Thought. Who would have faid unto Abraham that Sarah fhould have given fuck, fignifies fhould of his own Power implant the Human Divine. For I have borne him a Son in his old Age, fignifies that this would be done when the Days should be compleated.

2639. Sarah faid, that it fignifies Perception from the Divine fpiritual, appears from the Signification of, to fay, which is to perceive, of which often; and from the Representation of Sarah, which is the Divine spiritual, or the Divine Truth, of which N. 2622.

2640. God hath made me to laugh, that it fignifies the Affection of Truth celeftial, appears from the Signification of Laughter, which is the Affection of Truth, of which, N. 2072. 2216; and from God to make, which is the Celestial from which.

2641. So that all that hear fhall laugh with me, that it fignifies all Things there that should have Affection, appears from the Signification of, to hear and to laugh; to hear in the Word is predicated of thofe Things which are of the Affection, but to fee, of thofe Things which are of Thought, which may appear from very many Places in the Word, as alfo from Correfpondencies, as may be feen N. 2542; here because the Affection of Truth celestial is treated of, it is faid, every one that hears, by which are fignified all Things of Affection. That to laugh is to be affected with Truth, or to have the Affection of Truth, may be feen N, 2072. 2216. 2640.

2642. And fhe faid, that it fignifies Thought, appears from the Signification of, to fay, of which often, fee 2619 at the End.

2643. Who would have faid unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given fuck, that it fignifies that the Lord by his own Power fhould implant the Human in the Divine, appears from the Representation of Abraham, alfo of

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Sarab, alfo from the Signification of, to give fuck, and of Children; that Abraham reprefents the Divine Good, and Sarah the Divine Truth, has been fhewn; that Milk is fpiritual from a celeftial Original, or Good from Truth, may be seen N. 2184, fo to give fuck is to implant that; that Sons are Truths, here those Things which are in the Rational, may appear from the Signification of Sons, N. 489.490. 491. 533. That thefe Things in the internal Senfe fignify, that the Lord by his own Power fhould implant the Human in the Divine, is because the Divine Truth is the fame as the Divine Human, of which when it is faid, that it fhould give fuck to Abraham's Children, it is fignified that he would implant the Human in the Divine, and because the Human, it is of his own Power. But thefe Things can hardly be explained more clearly to the Understanding; if we were to infift more largely, it would obfcure the Senfe yet more, for they are Divine, which can only appear before Angels by Celestials and Spirituals, if they were prefented before Man in any Style more elevated, they would fall into the material and corporeal Ideas which Man has. Moreover, it must be known, that the Divine Rational of the Lord with respect to its Quality when it is first born, may be described in these Words, God hath made me to laugh, fo that all that bear will laugh with me. And she faid, who would have faid unto Abraham, that Sarab fhould have given fuck; for it was according to antient Custom, when an Infant was born, to give it a fignificative Name, and that its State fhould then also be defcribed; as when Cain was born to Eve and Adam, Gen. iv. 1. when Seth was born to them, Gen. iv. 25. Noah to Lamech, Gen. v. 29. the twelve Children to Jacob, Gen. xxix. 32, 33, 34, 35. Chap. xxx. 6, 8, 11, 13, 18, 20, 24. Chap. xxxv. 18. Pharez and Zarah to Thamar, Gen. xxxviii. 29, 30. Manaffes and Ephraim to Joseph, Gen. xli. 51, 52. Gershom and Eliezer to Mofes, Exod. ii. 22. Chap. xviii. 4. what all these represent and what they fignify in the internal Senfe, is involved in the Defcription added to the Name which was given them; fo here what Ifaac; but what is involved appears a little from the fummary Explanation, but deeper Secrets are concealed, for they are Divine, which are inexpreffible by any Forms or Fashion of Words.

2644. For I have borne him a Son in his old Age, that it fignifies that this would be done when the Days fhould be compleated, appears from the Explanation of almost the fame Words in Ver. 2. of which N. 2621. 2622. 2623. 2624.

2645. Ver. 8. And the Child grew and was weaned, and Abraham made a great Feaft the fame Day that Ifaac was weaned. The Child grew, fignifies the ulterior Perfection of the Rational of the Lord. And was weaned, fignifies the Separation of the Rational merely human. Abraham made a great Feaft, fignifies Cohabitation and Union. The fame Day that Ifaac was weaned, fignifies the State of Separation.

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2647. And was weaned, that it fignifies the Separation of the Rational merely human, appears from the Signification of, to be weaned, which is to be separated, as Infants are from the Breafts of the Mother. That the Rational merely human was feparated, is further defcribed in this Chapter, and represented by the Son of Hagar, that he was caft out from Home. 2648. Abraham made a great Feaft, that it fignifies Cohabitation and Union, appears from the Signification of Feaft, which is Cohabitation, of which, N. 2341, here alfo Union, because the Lord is treated of, whose Human was united to the Divine, and his Divine to the Human, and because this Union is difcuffed, it is called a great Feast.

2649. The Day that Ifaac was weaned, that it fignifies a State of Separation, appears from the Signification of Day, which is State, of which, N. 23.487.488. 493. 893, and from the Signification of, to wean, which is to be feparated, of which N. 2647. From the first Verse of this Chapter the Union of the Divine Effence with the Human of the Lord has been treated of in this Order: Of the Prefence of the Divine in the Human, the Caufe of the Union, Ver. 1. Of the Prefence of the Human in the Divine, fo of the reciprocal Union, of which, N. 2004, Ver. 2. That from that Union the Human was made Divine, Ver. 3. And this fucceffively and continually when the Lord lived in the World, Ver. 4. And that this fhould begin, when the State of the Rational should be fuch, as that it would receive, Ver. 5. The State of the Union, with respect to its Quality, is defcribed, with its Secrets, Ver. 6. 7. now follows concerning the Separation of the human Maternal, and is continued to Ver. 12. which Separation in this Verfe is fignified by the Weaning of Isaac, and in the following it is reprefented by the Son of Hagar that he was fent away; and because the Union of the Divine of the Lord with his Human, and of the Human with the Divine, is the very Marriage of Good and Truth, and from thence is the Marriage Celestial, which is the fame as the Kingdom of the Lord, therefore a great Feaft is mentioned, which Abraham made when Ifaac was weaned, by which the first Part of the Marriage or the first Union is fignified, which Feast, unless it had fignified a Secret, would never have been mention'd. Because it now follows concerning the Separation of the firft Human, which the Lord had from his Mother, and the Length of his plenary Exuition or putting it off, it must be known, that the Lord fucceffively and continually till the laft Moment of his Life, when he was glorified, was feparating from himself and putting off that which was merely Human, namely, that which he drew from his Mother, till at length he was no longer her Son, but the Son of God, as well with regard to his Conception as his Nativity, and fo was one with the Father, and Jehovah Himself. That he fhould feparate from himself and put off the Human, which he had from his Mother, fo that he should be no longer her Son, appears clearly from the Words of the Lord, In John,

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