of others. These two commandments are commandments to be done because
the sanctification of the rest of the commandments depends upon these,
for the "Sabbath" signifies the union in the Lord of the Divine itself
and the Divine Human, also His conjunction with heaven and the church,
and thus the marriage of good and truth in the man who is being
regenerated. This being the signification of the Sabbath, it was the
chief representative of all things of worship in the Israelitish Church,
as is evident in Jeremiah (xvii. 20-27), and elsewhere. It was the
chief representative of all things of worship, because the first thing
in all things of worship is the acknowledgment of the Divine in the
Lord's Human, for without that acknowledgment man can believe and do
only from self, and to believe from self is to believe falsities, and to
do from self is to do evils, as is also evident from the Lord's words in
John:

To those asking, "What shall we do that we might work the works of God?"
Jesus said, "This is the work of God, that ye believe on Him whom God
hath sent" (vi. 28, 29).

And in the same,

"He that abideth in Me and I in him, the same beareth much fruit; for
apart from Me ye can do nothing" (xv. 5).

That the Sabbath represented that union and the holy acknowledgment of
it, has been fully shown in the Arcana Coelestia, namely, that the
"Sabbath" signified in the highest sense the union of the Divine itself
and the Divine Human in the Lord, in the internal sense the conjunction
of the Lord's Human with heaven and with the church, in general the
conjunction of good and truth, thus the heavenly marriage (n. 8495,
10356, 10730). Therefore the rest on the Sabbath day signified the
state of that union, because the Lord then has rest; also through that
union there is peace and salvation in the heavens and on the earth. In
a relative sense it signified the conjunction of man with the Lord,
because man then has peace and salvation (n. 8494, 8510, 10360, 10367,
10370, 10374, 10668, 10730). The six days preceding the Sabbath
signified the labors and combats that precede union and conjunction (n.
8510, 8888, 9431, 10360, 10667). The man who is being regenerated is in
two states, the first when he is in truths and by means of truths is
being led to good and into good, the other when he is in good. When man
is in the first state he is in combats or temptations; but when he is in
the second state he is in the tranquillity of