Athanasian Creed (Worcester) n. 156

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156. A canon which will be explained more particularly: That the Lord is "the Anointed of Jehovah," "the Messiah" and "the Christ," also "the Son of God," as to the Divine Human, from the fact that the Divine good of the Divine love, which is Jehovah and the Father, was in Him from conception, from which His Human was made the Divine truth when He was in the world, thus such as is heaven; but afterwards it was successively made the Divine good of the Divine love by unition with the Father, which was the esse of His life, and was His soul, which is called Jehovah. Hence the Lord became one with Jehovah, and thus the Father as to each. The Divine truth which makes heaven and is called the Holy Spirit then proceeds. They who receive it from the Lord are "sons of God." From these considerations it may also be manifest that the Lord in time was not only conceived of Jehovah, but was also born of Him; and that the Holy Spirit proceeds from Him. (See the passages adduced in Apocalypse Explained, n. 684.) That the Anointed, the Messiah, the Christ, and the Son of God are synonymous terms, how also He was king, and that they are the Lord as to the Divine Human, may also be seen in Apocalypse Explained (n. 684).


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