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THE OUTER AND THE INNER VIEW.
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viour and Redeemer of the human race; but it is known to few in what manner this is to be understood. They who are in the externals of the church, believe that He redeemed the world, that is, the human race, by his blood, by which they mean the passion of the cross.

But they who are in the internals of the church, know that no one is saved by the blood of the Lord, but by a life according to the precepts of faith and charity from the Word of the Lord.

They who are in the inmosts of the church, understand by the blood of the Lord the divine truth proceeding from Him; and by the passion of the cross they understand the ultimate of the Lord's temptation, by which He altogether subjugated the hells, and at the same time glorified his Human, that is, made it Divine; and that thereby He redeemed and saved all who suffer themselves to be regenerated by a life according to the precepts of faith and charity from his Word. By the Lord's blood, also, in the internal sense according to which the angels in the heavens perceive the Word, is meant the divine truth proceeding from the Lord. (A. C. 10,152.)

What is meant by the external and the internal church, has been occasionally shown above, viz.: that the external of the ancient church was all that which represented the internal, and that the internal of the church was that which was represented by externals.

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