The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 139
139. Internal Meaning of Ezekiel, Chapter 16
The successive states of the Jewish church. (2)
1-2 There was nothing in it but falsity and evil. (2)
3-6 It was forsaken by the Lord from the beginning, because it was without anything of the church. (2)
7-12 After a time truths and goods of every kind and species were given to it through the Word, and thus evils and falsities were removed. (2)
13-14 Thus it could have been in intelligence. (2)
15-20 It falsified all things of the Word. (2)
21-22 It extinguished truths and goods, and became as in the beginning. (2)
23-25 It turned truths into falsities (2)
26-28 by knowledges [scientifica] of the natural man, by traditions, and by reasonings from them, (2)
29-30 finally profaning [truths]. (2)
31 It exalted itself above all men. (2)
32-34 It obtruded its falsities on others. (2)
35-42 They will utterly perish by the falsities by which the truths of the Word have been destroyed. (3)
43-45 Thus they will be as in the beginning. (3)
46-52 The like has come to pass with the Israelitish church, but in a less degree. (3, 17)
53-55 Nevertheless the church in general shall be restored. (11)
56-58 It is everywhere better than in the Jewish church. (11)
何西阿書 9
1
以色列啊,不要像外邦人歡喜快樂;因為你行邪淫離棄你的神,在各穀場上如妓女喜愛賞賜。
3
他們必不得住耶和華的地;以法蓮卻要歸回埃及,必在亞述吃不潔淨的食物。
4
他們必不得向耶和華奠酒,即便奠酒也不蒙悅納。他們的祭物必如居喪者的食物,凡吃的必被玷污;因他們的食物只為自己的口腹,必不奉入耶和華的殿。
6
看哪,他們逃避災難;埃及人必收殮他們的屍首,摩弗人必葬埋他們的骸骨。他們用銀子做的美物上必長蒺藜;他們的帳棚中必生荊棘。
7
以色列人必知道降罰的日子臨近,報應的時候來到。民說:作先知的是愚昧;受靈感的是狂妄,皆因他們多多作孽,大懷怨恨。
8
以法蓮曾作我神守望的;至於先知,在他一切的道上作為捕鳥人的網羅,在他神的家中懷怨恨。
9
以法蓮深深地敗壞,如在基比亞的日子一樣。耶和華必記念他們的罪孽,追討他們的罪惡。
10
主說:我遇見以色列如葡萄在曠野;我看見你們的列祖如無花果樹上春季初熟的果子。他們卻來到巴力毗珥專拜那可羞恥的,就成為可憎惡的,與他們所愛的一樣。
11
至於以法蓮人,他們的榮耀必如鳥飛去,必不生產,不懷胎,不成孕。
12
縱然養大兒女,我卻必使他們喪子,甚至不留一個。我離棄他們,他們就有禍了。
13
我看以法蓮如推羅栽於美地。以法蓮卻要將自己的兒女帶出來,交與行殺戮的人。
15
耶和華說:他們一切的惡事都在吉甲;我在那裡憎惡他們。因他們所行的惡,我必從我地上趕出他們去,不再憐愛他們;他們的首領都是悖逆的。