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当乌西雅、约坦、亚哈斯、希西家作犹大王，约阿施的儿子耶罗波安作以色列王的时候，耶和华的话临到备利的儿子何西阿。
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耶和华初次与何西阿说话，对他说：你去娶淫妇为妻，也收那从淫乱所生的儿女；因为这地大行淫乱，离弃耶和华。
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於是，何西阿去娶了滴拉音的女儿歌篾。这妇人怀孕，给他生了一个儿子。
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耶和华对何西阿说：给他起名叫耶斯列；因为再过片时，我必讨耶户家在耶斯列杀人流血的罪，也必使以色列家的国灭绝。
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歌篾又怀孕生了一个女儿，耶和华对何西阿说：给她起名叫罗路哈玛（就是不蒙怜悯的意思）；因为我必不再怜悯以色列家，决不赦免他们。
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我却要怜悯犹大家，使他们靠耶和华─他们的神得救，不使他们靠弓、刀、争战、马匹，与马兵得救。
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耶和华说：给他起名叫罗阿米（就是非我民的意思）；因为你们不作我的子民，我也不作你们的神。
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然而，以色列的人数必如海沙，不可量，不可数。从前在甚麽地方对他们说你们不是我的子民，将来在那里必对他们说你们是永生神的儿子。
16. Without the spiritual sense no one would know why the prophet Jeremiah was commanded to buy himself a sash and put it around his waist, not to drag it through water, and to hide it in a hole in the rock by the Euphrates (Jeremiah 13:1-7).
Or why the prophet Isaiah was commanded to loose the sackcloth from upon his loins and put off the sandals upon his feet, and to go naked and barefoot three years (Isaiah 20:2-3).
Or why the prophet Ezekiel was commanded to pass a razor over his head and his beard, and then to divide the hair, burn a third part in the midst of the city, strike a third part with a sword, and scatter a third part in the wind, and to bind a few of the hairs in the edges of his garment, and finally throw them into the midst of the fire (Ezekiel 5:1-4).
Or why the same prophet was commanded to lie three hundred and ninety days on his left side and forty days on his right side, and to make himself bread of wheat, barley, millet and spelt mixed with cow dung and eat it; and in the meantime to put up a wall and a mound against Jerusalem and lay siege to it (Ezekiel 4:1-15).
Or why the prophet Hosea was twice commanded to take to himself a harlot as a wife (Hosea 1:2-9, 3:2-3).
And many other passages of a similar kind.
[2] Furthermore, without the spiritual sense, who would know the symbolic meanings of everything connected with the Tabernacle, such as the ark, the mercy seat, the cherubim, the lampstand, the altar of incense, the showbread upon the table, and the Tabernacle’s veils and curtains?
Without the spiritual sense, who would know the symbolic meanings of Aaron’s holy vestments — of his tunic, robe, ephod, urim and thummim, turban, and more?
Without the spiritual sense, who would know the symbolic meanings of all the commandments regarding the whole burnt offerings, other burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings? Or regarding the sabbaths and feasts?
The truth is that not the least of these particulars was commanded that did not symbolize something having to do with the Lord, heaven and the church.
It may be plainly seen from these few examples that there is a spiritual meaning present in each and every constituent of the Word.
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