263. To make what has just been said clearer I will add what was set
forth in _Doctrine of the New Jerusalem about the Lord_ (towards the end,
nn. 60, 61), which is as follows:

"That God and Man in the Lord, according to the Creed, are not two but
one Person, altogether one as soul and body are, appears clearly in many
sayings of the Lord, as that the Father and He are one; that all things
of the Father are His and all His the Father's; that He is in the Father
and the Father in Him; that all things are given into His hand; that He
has all power; that He is God of heaven and earth; that one who believes
on Him has eternal life; and that the wrath of God abides on one who does
not believe on Him; and further, that both the Divine and the Human were
taken up into heaven; and that as to both He sits at the right hand of
God, that is, is almighty; besides the numerous passages in the Word
about His Divine Human which were quoted abundantly above. They all
testify that God is one both in person and in essence, and in Him is the
Trinity, and that this God is the Lord.

[2] "These things about the Lord are published now for the first time
because it is foretold in the Apocalypse, chapters 21 and 22, that at the
end of the former church a new church is to be established in which this
will be the chief doctrine. This church is meant in those chapters by the
New Jerusalem into which only one who acknowledges the Lord alone as God
of heaven and earth can enter; this church is therefore called `the
Lamb's wife'. I can also report that all heaven acknowledges the Lord
alone and that one who does not is not admitted to heaven, for heaven is
heaven from the Lord. This very acknowledgment made in love and faith
causes men to be in the Lord and Lord in them, as He teaches in John:

In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me and I in
you (14:20);

again in the same:

Abide in me, and I in you; ... I am the vine, and you are branches; he
who abides in me and I in him, bears much fruit; for without me you can
do nothing; unless a man abides in me, he is cast out (15:4-6, also
17:22, 23).

[3] "This has not been seen from the Word before, because if it had been,
it would not have been received. For the last judgment had not been
accomplished yet, and prior to it the power of hell prevailed over the
power of heaven. Man is in the midst between heaven and hell; had this
been seen before, therefore, the devil, tha