25. 2. THE LORD IS CALLED THE SON OF MAN WHEN JUDGMENT IS TREATED OF. This is evident from the following passages:
When the Son of Man shall come in His glory . . . then shall He sit upon the throne of His glory. And He shall set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. Matt. xxv 31, 33.
When the Son of Man shall sit in the throne of His glory ... to judge the twelve tribes of Israel. Matt. xix 28.
The Son of Man shall come in the glory of His Father . . . and then He shall reward every man according to his works. Matt. xvi 27.
Watch ye therefore always . . . that ye may be accounted worthy . . . to stand before the Son of Man. Luke xxi 36.
In such an hour as ye think not the Son of Man cometh. Matt. xxiv 44; Luke xii 40.
the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son ... because He is the Son of Man. John v [22], 27.
The reason why the Lord calls Himself the Son of Man when judgment is being treated of is, because all judgment is effected according to Divine Truth, which is in the Word. That this judges every one the Lord Himself says in John:
If any one hear my words, yet believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world ... The Word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. John xii 47, 48;
and in another place:
The Son of Man came not to judge the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He that believeth on Him is not judged: but he that believeth not is judged already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. John iii 13, 17, 18.
That the Lord does not judge any one to hell, or cast any one down to hell; but that the evil spirit casts himself down, may be seen in the work HEAVEN AND HELL, Nos. 545-550, 574. By the name of Jehovah, of the Lord, and of the Son of God, is meant the Divine Truth, and consequently the Word, which is from Him, and concerning Him, and thus is Himself.