2658. That the Lord as to His human essence is called a "branch and root of Jesse" [Is. 11:1] and a "son of David" [Matt. 1:1], is a portrayal-just as faith also can be called a son of the Word of the Lord or of its letter, insofar as it is born through the higher knowledge [there], even though its letter is dead and rebels, like Absalom the son of David. 1748, 20 July.