Day 28: Saturday, April 19

And the first day of the week Mary Magdalene comes in the morning, it being yet dark, to the sepulcher, and looks at the stone taken away from the sepulcher. Then she runs, and comes to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and says to them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulcher, and we know not where they have put Him. Then Peter and the other disciple went forth, and they came to the sepulcher. And they both ran together; and the other disciple outran Peter and came first to the sepulcher. And stooping down, he looks at the sheets laid out; however, he did not come in. Then comes Simon Peter following him, and came into the sepulcher, and beholds the sheets laid out, and the kerchief which was over His head, not laid with the sheets but apart, wrapped together into one place. Then therefore the other disciple entered also, who came first to the sepulcher, and he saw and believed. For they did not yet know the Scripture that He must rise again from the dead. Then the disciples went away again to themselves. John 20:1-10

As in the proper sense the “morning” signifies the Lord, His advent, and thus the approach of His kingdom, it is evident what it signifies besides, namely, the rise of a new church, for this is the Lord’s kingdom on earth, and this both in general and in particular, and even in the least particular: in general, when any church on the globe is being raised up anew; in particular, when a man is being regenerated, and being made new, for then the Lord’s kingdom is arising in him, and he is becoming a church; and in the least particular, whenever the good of love and faith is working in him; for in this consists the advent of the Lord. Hence the Lord’s resurrection on the third day in the morning (Mark 16:2, 9; Luke 24:1; John 20:1) involves all these things, even in the particular and the least particular, in regard to His rising again in the minds of the regenerate every day, and even every moment. Arcana Coelestia 2405:8

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