and doves, and the changers of money, sitting.

15. And making a scourge of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the money of the money-merchants, and overthrew the tables.

16. And to them who sold doves He said, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house a house of merchandize.

17. And His disciples remembered, that it was written, The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up.

18. Then answered the Jews and said unto Him, What sign sign shewest thou, that thou doest these things?

19. JESUS answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

20. Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou raise it up in three days?

21. But He spake of the temple of His body.

22. When therefore He was risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this unto them; and they believed the Scripture, and the Word which JESUS had said.

23. But when He was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast, many believed in His name, seeing His miracles [signs] which He did.

ship by teaching, that all na tural, spiritual, and cœlestial affections, together with the knowledges of what is good and true, were not to be confounded with divine things, but to be seen and kept distinct from the divine source from which they flowed, v. 13, 14, 15, 16.

Thus teaching in agreement with the WORD, from the ardency of His divine love, v.

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That the glorification of the LORD's humanity is the grand confirming testimony of the truth of all that He said and did, and thus of His being the divine truth itself, which is Goð, v. 18, 19, 20, 21.

Because this glorification is treated of in the Word throughout, and from it the Word deriveth its sanctity, and inspireth man with a principle of heavenly faith, v. 22.

That a miraculous faith prevailed in the church, or a faith grounded in the evidence of miracles more than in the affection of good and truth, 24. But JESUS did not trust which faith therefore is not re

VERSES 1 to 12. And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee, &c. It is to be noted, that all the miracles wrought by the Lord, as well as all the miracles treated of in the Old Testament, which were wrought by Him, signified such things as relate to heaven and the church, that is, that they contained such things within, and that hence His miracles were divine, see the Arcana Coelestia, n. 7337, 8364, 9031. The case was the same with this miracle in Cana of Galilee, and by the marriage there is signified the church, as in other passages in the Word throughout; in Cana of Galilee denotes amongst the Gentiles; and by water is signified the truth of the external church, such as was the truth of the Jewish church, from the sense of the letter of the Word, and by wine is signified the truth of the internal church, such as is the truth of the Christian church; hence by the Lord making water wine is signified that He made the truths of the external church truths of the internal church, by opening the internal things which lay concealed in them; by six water-pots of stone set according to the cleansing of the Jews, are signified all those things in the Word, and thence in the Jewish church and its worship, which were representative and significative of divine things in the Lord and from the Lord, which contained internal things; wherefore also they were six of stone set for the cleansing of the Jews; the number six signifies all, and is predicated of truths; stone signifies truth, and the cleansing of the Jews

signifies purification from sins, thus all things of the Jewish church, for the church regards purification from sins as all that belongs to it, since in proportion as any one is purified from sins, in the same proportion he is a church; by the ruler of the feast are meant those who are in the knowledges of truth; by his saying to the bridegroom, Every man at first setteth forth good wine, and when they have had enough, then that which is worse, thou hast reserved the good wine until now, is signified that every church commences from truths derived from good, but closes in truths not of good, and that even now in the end of the church, truth derived from good or genuine truth is given, viz. from the Lord. Ap. Ex. 376.

Verse 4. Jesus saith unto her, What [is it] to me and to thee, woman? &c. It is to be noted that the Lord successively and continually, even to the last of life, when He was glorified, separated from himself and put off that which was merely human, viz. what He derived from the mother, until at length He was no longer her son, but the Son of God, as well in regard to nativity, as in regard to conception, and thus one with the Father, and himself Jehovah: That He separated from himself and put off all the human [principle] from the mother, so that He was no longer her son, is clearly evident from the Lord's words in John, "When wine was wanted, the mother of Jesus said to him, They have no wine; Jesus saith to her, What [is it] to me and to thee, woman?" From which words it is evident, that the Lord did not call her mother, but woman, and that He transferred the name of mother to those who were signified by the disciple who stood near at His crucifixion, to whom He said, Behold thy mother, John xix. 26, 27. As to what further concerns the separation and putting off of the maternal human [principle], it is not comprehended by those who have merely corporeal ideas concerning the human [principle] of the Lord, and think of it as of the human [principle] of another man; they do not know, that such as the life is, such is the man, and that the Lord had from conception the divine esse of life or Jehovah, and that similar esse of life existed in

His human [principle] by union. A. C. n. 2649.

Verse 10. Thou hast kept the good wine until now. By wine is signified the divine truth derived from the divine good of the Lord; and hence may appear what is signified by these words of the Lord, men do not put new wine into old bottles, but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved, Matt. ix. 17; where new wine denotes the divine truth of the New Testament, thus of the new church, and old wine denotes the divine truth of the Old Testament, thus of the old church. The

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like is signified by these words of the ruler at the marriage in Cana of Galilee, Every man at first sets on good wine, and when men have drank sufficiently, then that which is worse; thou hast kept the good wine until now. Ap. Rev. n. 316.

Verses 14, 15, 16, 17. And found in the temple those that sold oxen, &c. What is here signified by temple, may be seen by consulting the extract from the Ap. Ex. at verse 19 below.

Verse 18. Then answered the Jews and said unto Him, What sign shewest thou unto us? &c. By a sign is understood that which declares, testifies, and persuades concerning a thing enquired after; but by a miracle is understood that which excites, strikes, and induces astonishment, thus a sign moves the understanding and faith, and a miracle the will and its affection, for the will and its affection is what is excited, is stricken, and amazed, and the understanding and its faith is what is persuaded, what a declaration is made to, and which admits of testification. That in the above words by shewing a sign is signified to testify by somewhat stupendous, or by a voice from heaven, is evident, but whereas such a testification would have damned, rather than have saved them, therefore Jesus gave answer concerning the temple, by which He understood His body, that this would be dissolved, that is, would die, and would rise again glorified on the third day. Ap. Ex. n. 706. Verse 19. Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. That temple in the Word signifies the divine human [principle] of the Lord, and in a respective sense heaven and the church, consequently also the divine truth, may appear from the following passages, the Jews said to Jesus, What sign shewest thou to us, that thou doest this? Jesus answered and said unto them, Dissolve this temple, and I will raise it up again in three days; but He spake of the temple of His body. That temple signifies the divine human [principle of the Lord, is here expressly said; for by the dissolution of the temple, and its being raised up again after three days, is understood His death, burial, and resurrection. And in Malachi, Behold I send mine angel, who shall prepare the way before me, and suddenly shall come to His temple the Lord, and the angel of the covenant, whom ye seek, iii. 1; in this passage also by temple is meant the divine human [principle] of the Lord; for the subject there treated of is concerning the Lord's advent, wherefore by coming to His temple is signified to His human [principle]. And in the Apocalypse, I saw not a temple in the New Jerusalem, for the Lord God Omnipotent is its temple, and the Lamb, xxi. 22; the sub