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given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Going forth, therefore, make disciples of all nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. 20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, behold, I am with you all the days until the consummation of the age. Amen.

1 Mark xvi. 1. John xx. 1. 2 Or had been. 8 Mark xvi. 15.

NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

AS IT DAWNED TO ONE OF THE SABBATHS, ETC. (v. 1).— For the signification of the dawn or morning, see note, chap. xxi. 18, p. 408; and for the signification of the Sabbath, note, chap. xii. 1, p. 310.

BEHOLD, THERE WAS A GREAT EARTHQUAKE, ETC. (v. 2).— By the great earthquake which took place when the angel descended from heaven, and rolled away the stone from the door of the sepulchre, is signified, that the state of the church was altogether changed, for the Lord then rose again; and as to His Humanity, took upon him all dominion over heaven and earth (v. 18). By the angel rolling away the stone from the door, and sitting upon it, is signified, that the Lord removed every false principle which had obstructed the passage to himself, and that He opened the divine truth (for stone, signifies, the divine truth) which was falsified by the traditions of the Jews (A.E. 400. See also, note, chap. xxi. 44, p. 415).

HIS COUNTENANCE WAS LIKE LIGHTNING, ETC. (v. 3).— See note, chap. xi. 7-15, p. 296: chap. xvii. 1. pp. 360, 362: chap. xxi. 8, p. 404.

I KNOW THAT YE SEEK JESUS, THE CRUCIFIED. HE IS NOT HERE, FOR HE IS RISEN, ETC. (v. 5 to 8).—The spiritual meaning of the Lord's resurrection does not merely shew what that event implied and effected in the church, and the states of its members at the time; it more particularly reveals and implies what it will effect, in connection with his second advent, and with human regeneration. The treatment of the Lord, even to his crucifixion by the Jewish

nation, represented the treatment and the rejection of the Word (for he was the Word) by the Jewish Church: and his resurrection, denoted, the raising of the Word out of the death of the perverted letter, into the life and glory of the spirit; which spirit, like the vesture without seam, Woven throughout, was preserved entire, though the garment of the letter had been divided, and thus dissipated and destroyed. But the church, established by our Lord, has also become corrupt, and has crucified the Lord afresh; and in respect to the present professing religious world, the Divine Redeemer is, in the prophetic language of the book of Revelation, a Lamb, as it were, slain.' As the Lord has been crucified afresh, so has he also risen afresh, and in relation to the church, risen to greater glory than when he emerged from the tomb; though in his second resurrection, he is less perceptible to the carnal eye, and less winning to the carnal mind, than at the first. In a more interior sense, the Lord's resurrection implies, that he rises, yea, is every moment rising, in the hearts of the regenerate (Rev. W. Bruce).

ALL POWER IS GIVEN TO ME, ETC. (v. 18 to the end).— To be in the possession and uncontrolled exercise of ALL power both in heaven and on earth, must be the alone indisputable prerogative of God. JESUS repeatedly announces himself as such, and consequently establishes the position, that he is the supreme God. It is also well worthy of notice, that this explicit avowal of the union of Divinity with Humanity was made by our Lord after his resurrection, when speaking to his disciples in proverbs and parables was no longer necessary, but when he was enabled to shew them more plainly of the Father. In the concluding paragraph, Jesus evidently alludes to the existence of a trinity in unity subsisting in himself; for having enjoined his disciples to baptize all nations in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, he immediately adds, Lo, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS; most obviously insisting that in himself he was Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, or as expressed by Paul, that ' in Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.' And moreover, to substantiate the doctrine of the Divine Trinity in Unity, as centering in Jesus alone, we find the disciples not unfrequently baptizing in the name of Jesus only as the TRIUNE GOD; a circumstance only to be accounted

for, by admitting that the name of JESUS comprehended every other, as being both God and Lord in one divine and glorious person (T. F. Churchill, M.D.). For brief Illustrations of the doctrine of the Trinity, see Introductory Essay, p. lii. see also note, chap. vi. 8, pp. 147—150. Our limits being exhausted, a particular illustration of the important passages in the Lord's crucifixion and resurrection will be given in the parallel passages in the other Gospels.

END OF THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW.

NOTTINGHAM:
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Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, representative signification of,
227.-Accuser, 123.-Adultery, degrees of, 124, 128.-Age,
consummation of the, iii.-All that we have to be surrendered for
heaven, 389.-Alabaster, description and correspondence of, 469.-
Albumen, 114.-Aliment, natural, 190; process of conversion of blood
into, 191; spiritual, 194.-Alms, signification of, 143; alms, prayer,
and fasting, connection between, 146.—Alphæus, 2.-Amen, its sig-
nification, 154.-—Ancients, who they were, 122.-Andrew, description
and martyrdom of, 254.-Anise, or dill, description of, 435.-Angels,
appear as men, 18; angels, guardian, 40; angel of the Lord, 42;
angelic ministrations, 74.-Animals, clean, lix.; destructive, 233;
correspondence of man with, 233.-Apostles, calling and description
of, 253 to 262; apostles and disciples, distinction between, 252; sent
forth two and two, 253.-Appetite, 101.-Ash, poplar, and peach,
correspondence, 210.—Ashes, correspondence of, 303.—Ass, significa-
tion of, xlvii., lxxxvi.—Ass mill-stone, signification of, 369.-Assimi-
lation, 190, 198.-Atmosphere, what it consists of, 113; great
treasure house of food, 116; its wonderful power, 117.

B Babylon, history of, 12; representative signification of, 13.—

A symbol of the Romish Church, 13, 14.-Baptism of Jesus,
confirmatory of his Supreme Divinity, 64.-Baptism of John, 63.—
Baptist, John, life of, 292; representative signification of, 293;
greatest of prophets, 296.-Bartholomew (Nathaniel), description and
martyrdom of, 256.-Behemoth, Jewish traditions of the, 342.-Beauty
and goodness; distinction between, 210; beauty, how to obtain, 287.-
Beds, oriental, 240; correspondence of, 241.-Bethany, description
of, 469.-Bethsaida, anathema against; description of, 302.-
Bethlehem, description and representative signification of, 23, 24.-
Betrayal of the Lord, 470.-Birds, correspondence of, 275.-Blessings,
to whom they relate, 97.-Blind, healed by the Lord, who they repre-
sent, 247.-Blind, leaders of the blind, 344.—Blindness, frequency of,
in the East, 344.-Blood, its correspondence; circulation of, during
sleep, 35; issue of, healed, 245.-Blush, correspondence of, 371.—
Body, right and left sides of the, 129; substances converted into the,
115.-Bond of conjunction, must not be loosened, 121.-Bones cou-
tain much lime, 114.-Bottle in the smoke, explanation of, 244.-
Bottles, ancient, 243.-Boys in the markets, 302.-Book of the Church,

extract from, 17.-Books in Scripture, containing an internal sense,
121.-Bread alone, man cannot live by, 198; bread, stones cannot be
made into, 198.-Bread, shew, 311; unleavened, 470.-Brother, rep-
resentative signification of, 373; delivering brother to death, 277.—
Bruised reed, 313.-Builders, prudent and foolish, 214.

C

Camel, description of, 60; Bactrian, 61; Arabian, 62; corres-
pondence of, 62.-Caiaphas, 469.-Cain's offering rejected,
why, 462.-Canaan, situation of, 347.-Capernaum, ruins of, 90;
representative signification of, 303.- Carmel, mount, 90.-Caseine,
114.-Caruncle, lachrymal, its use, 163.-Cæsarea, Philippi, 353.—
Centurion, 224.-Charity and faith, must remain in union, 198; the
law of, 202; true, 202; hypocritical, 433.-Cherubim, representative
signification of, 403.-Cheek, correspondence of, 371.-Children, re-
presentative of innocence, 369; all go to heaven, 371.-Chimney of the
fire, 330.-Chorazin, 302.-Christ, the Son of God, 353; proofs of the
Deity of, 234, 241, 293, 294, 338, &c., &c.-Christian life, rule of,
201.-Christianity, a final revelation, i.; diffused by human instru-
mentality, ii.-Church, Jewish, judgment on the, 182.-Church, com-
motions in, and unsettledness of, vi.-Churches, Romish and Protes-
tant, contrast between, 449.-Church, the, how it should be nourished,
200.-Church, members should not be admitted into, without prepa-
ration, 200.-Church (the New), why slow in progress, 200.-City, of
Judah, 249; of the Samaritans, 249. Cities and villages, 249.-Cloth,
unwrought, 243.-Clouds, correspondence of, xlii.-Colors, 166.-
Combat, Christian, 138.-Commandments, what they contain, 119,
168; why written on two tables, 374; summary exposition of, 167;
how and by whom violated, 425.-Compassion, the divine, 249.-Con-
ception, miraculous, 18.-Consummation of the age, iii.-Conversion,
what it is, 368.-Corban, its signification, 343.-Correspondence, sci-
ence of, denied by some persons, xxx.; well known to the ancients,
xxxiv.; correspondence and metaphor, distinction between, xxxvii.;
correspondence defined, xxxiv., lxxxii.; proofs of the reality of, xxxi. ;
rules for studying, xxxvi; correspondence illustrated, lxxxiii.; corres-
pondence between everything on earth, and everything in the spiritual
world, xxvii., xxxiv.; correspondence of beasts, birds, fish, lix.; of
clouds, xlii.; of garments, lxxxv.; of oil, lxxxiv.; of water, ibid; of
soft clothing, 296.-Councils, apostles delivered unto, 65.-Cross, on
taking up, 286.-Cross-way, explanation of, 420.—Cummin, 435.—
Cup and platter, signification of, 437.

D

Darkness, outer, its meaning, 228; what ye hear in, proclaim
in light, 279.-Darnell, 326.-David, how is the Lord the
Son of? 427.-Dawson, Mr. George (A.M.), testimony in favor of
Swedenborg; his view of the "Principia," "Animal Kingdom," his
examination of the charge "visionary" against, xc. to xcii.-Dead,
spiritually, who they are, 233.-Death, its source, 231.-Degrees, con-
tinuous and discrete, xlix.; of life, lx.-Delta, the, 44.-Devil and
Satan, distinction between, 70.-Desert, Lybian, 44.-Dew, corres-
pondence of, lv.-Digestion, 198.-Diseases cured by the touch of
Jesus, 246.-Diseases, spiritual, the Lord the healer of, 295.-Disci-
ple, not above his master, 278.-Disciples, calling of the, 252; the
mediums of truth and goodness to the multitudes, 94, 278.-Dispeusa-

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