EMANUEL SWEDENBORG
particular unfolding of the internal sense, verse by verse, clause by clause, premising that—
"In the following pages by the Lord is meant solely the Saviour of the world, Jesus Christ; and He is called Lord without the other names. He is acknowledged and adored as Lord in the entire heaven, because He has all power in the heavens and in the earth. He commanded also saying, 'Ye call Me Lord, and ye say rightly, for I am' (John xiii. 13). And after the resurrection the disciples called Him Lord.
"Through the whole heaven they know no other Father than the Lord, because they are One, as He said: 'I am the way, the truth, and the life.' Philip saith, 'Show us the Father.' Jesus saith to him, 'Am I so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known Me, Philip? He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father: how sayest thou then, show us the Father? Believest thou not that I am in the Father and the Father in Me? Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me' (John xiv. 6-11)."
Twenty-six octavo pages are given to the explication of this first chapter, and then it is said—
"This then is the internal sense of the Word,
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