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 nature within Him, from which His humanity proceeded and came forth: "I came not," said He, "to do mine own will, but the will of Him that sent Me." "I can of my own self do nothing; the Father that dwelleth within me, He doeth the works." And this is also the case with all the Lord's followers, of those who comprise His flock. They are in all things obedient unto Him. They hear His voice, they follow Him, and He gives unto them everlasting life

HE correspondence of the Lamb, when applied to the Lord himself, signifies the Divine human nature, or the Lord's humanity, united to the Divinity called the Father; and the Divine Truth, which proceeds from His humanity, and which cleanses the soul, is signified by the blood of the Lamb. It is this blood, this spiritual truth, which flows to man through the medium of the Divine Humanity, in which the righteous are said to have washed their robes, and made them white: meaning thereby, that they have been able to cleanse their principles and practice by the Divine Truth which they have received. It is on account of this application of the correspondence of the Lamb to the humanity of the Lord, that we read of "God and the Lamb;" and of "the throne of God and the Lamb:" referring not to a supposed separate person, but to God as the Lord's essential Divinity