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 grows in intelligence and wisdom, or is regenerated; for which end the interior things of the Word, of the Church, and of worship were revealed by the Lord when He was in the world; and now, lastly, things still more interior are made known.". (A. E. 641.)

"When the Lord came into the world the interior of the Word was opened; for when He was in the world He revealed interior divine truths to serve for the use of the New Church then to be established by Him, and also did serve; at this day also, for like reasons, the interior of the Word is opened, and divine truths still more interior are thence revealed for the use of the New Church which will be called the New Jerusalem." (Ibid. 948.)

"After the end of that Church [the Israelitish] interior divine truths were revealed by the Lord for the Christian Church, and now truths still more interior for the Church which is to come [that is, for the New Jerusalem "]. (Ibid.)

Here we are plainly taught that the relation of the New to the Old or former Christian Church is very different from that of Christianity to Judaism. Instead of being a new and altogether different religion or Church from that established eighteen hundred years ago, it is in reality the self-same religion or Church in its more advanced and mature stage, or more complete development. It bears a relation to the first Christian Church similar to that which the full-grown and