THE LORD IS GOD HIMSELF, FROM WHOM THE WORD IS, AND CONCERNING WHOM IT TREATS

In the first chapter we began by showing that the whole Sacred Scripture treats of the Lord, and that the Lord is the Word. This will now be further demonstrated from other passages of the Word where the Lord is called Jehovah, the God of Israel and of Jacob, the Holy One of Israel, Lord and God; as also King, the Anointed of Jehovah, and David. It may be well to mention at the outset that it has been granted me to read through all the Prophets and the Psalms of David, to examine each verse, and to see what is there treated of; and I perceived that they treat only of the Church as established and to be established by the Lord, of His Coming, His combats and glorification, of redemption and salvation, and of heaven originating from Him; and also of what is opposed to these. Now, since all these are the works of the Lord, it was evident that the whole of the Sacred Scripture relates to Him; and consequently that the Lord is the Word.

[2] This, however, cannot be seen except by those who are in enlightenment from the Lord, and who also have some knowledge of the spiritual sense of the Word. All the angels of heaven are in this sense; and therefore, when the Word is read by man, this is the only sense in which they comprehend it. For spirits and angels are present with man continually; and they, being spiritual, understand spiritually what man understands naturally. That the whole Sacred Scripture treats of the Lord may be seen, though only obscurely and in an uncertain way, from those passages quoted from the Word in the first chapter, Nos. 1 to 6; and from those which will now be adduced concerning the Lord, that show how often He is called Lord and God. From this it may appear clearly that it was He who spoke through the Prophets wherever they declare that Jehovah spoke, that Jehovah said, and "the saying of Jehovah".

[3] The Lord was, before His Coming into the world. This appears from the following passages:

John the Baptist said of the Lord: He it is who is to come after me, who was before me, the latchet of whose shoe I am not worthy to unloose. This is He of whom I said, He that cometh after me, who was before me, who was preferred before me. John i 27, 30.

In Revelation:

They fell down before the throne, upon which was the Lord, Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, who art, and wast, and art to come. Rev. xi 16, 17.

And in Micah:

Thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall He come forth unto me that is to be Ruler in Israel, whose goings forth have been from of old, from the days of eternity. Micah v 2.

Moreover, it appears from the declarations of the Lord in the Gospels that He was before Abraham; that He had glory with the Father before the foundation of the world; that He came forth from the Father; that from the beginning the Word was with God; that the Word was God and that the Word became flesh.

It may be established from what now follows that the Lord is called Jehovah, the God of Israel and of Jacob, the Holy One of Israel, God and Lord; also King, the Anointed of Jehovah, and David.