Heavenly Doctrine (Tafel) n. 292

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292. Those who make the Lord's Human similar to that of another man, do not think of His conception from the very Divine; nor do they consider that the body of every one is the effigy of his soul. Neither do they think of His resurrection with the whole body; nor how He appeared when He was transfigured, that His face shone as the sun. Nor do they think of those things which the Lord said concerning faith in Him, concerning His being one with the Father, concerning His glorification, and His power over heaven and earth; namely, that these things are Divine, and that they were spoken of His Human. Neither do they remember that the Lord is omnipresent even as to His Human (Matt. xxviii. 20); which, nevertheless, has given rise to the belief of His omnipresence in the Holy Supper; but omnipresence is Divine. Nay, perhaps they do not think that the Divine which is called the Holy Spirit, proceeds from the Lord's Human; when, nevertheless, it does proceed from His Glorified Human; for it is said, "The Holy Spirit was not yet, because Jesus was not yet glorified" (John vii. 39).


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