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何西阿書 7

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1 我想醫治以色列的時候,以法蓮的罪孽和撒瑪利亞罪惡就顯露出。他們行事虛謊,內有賊人入室偷竊,外有強盜成群騷擾。

2 他們心裡並不思想我記念他們的一切惡;他們所行的現在纏繞他們,都在我面前。

3 他們行惡使君王歡喜,說謊使首領喜樂。

4 他們都是行淫的,像火爐被餅的燒熱,從摶麵到發麵的時候,暫不使火著旺。

5 在我們王宴樂的日子,首領因酒的烈性成病;王與褻慢人拉

6 首領埋伏的時候,中熱如爐,就如餅的整夜睡臥,到了早晨氣炎炎。

7 眾民也熱如火爐,燒滅他們的官長。他們的君都仆倒而死;他們中間無一人求告我。

8 以法蓮與列邦人攙雜;以法蓮是沒有翻過的餅。

9 外邦人吞他勞力得來的,他卻不知道;頭髮斑白,他也不覺得。

10 以色列的驕傲當面見證自己,雖遭遇這一切,他們仍不歸向耶和華─他們的,也不尋求他。

11 以法蓮好像鴿子愚蠢無知;他們求告埃及,投奔亞述。

12 他們去的時候,我必將我的撒在他們身上;我要打他們,如同空中的。我必按他們會眾所見的懲罰他們。

13 他們因離棄我,必定有禍;因違背我,必被毀滅。我雖要贖他們,他們卻向我謊。

14 他們並不誠哀求我,乃在上呼號;他們為求五穀新酒聚集,仍然悖逆我。

15 我雖教導他們,堅固他們的膀,他們竟圖謀抗拒我。

16 他們歸向,卻不歸向至上者;他們如同翻背的。他們的首領必因舌頭的狂傲倒在刀下;這在埃及必作人的譏笑。

   

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Morning

  
Two gorgeous red poppies -- one popped, and one just about to.

Morning comes with the rising of the sun, and the sun -- which gives life to the earth with its warmth and light -- represents the Lord in His divinity, bringing spiritual life through love and wisdom. Thus, the morning represents the coming of the Lord into our lives, and all the things that flow from it: the love, joy and enlightenment He brings; the peace and tranquility of passing the spiritual obscurity of night; the anticipation of the learning and usefulness of a new day; and the awareness of The Lord's renewed presence.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 179; Apocalypse Revealed 151; Arcana Coelestia 2333 [1-3], 2540, 2780, 5740, 8211, 8812, 10134, 10200, 10413; True Christian Religion 764 [1-2])

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Arcana Coelestia # 3084

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3084. 'And went up' means a raising up. This is clear from the meaning of 'going up' as being raised up. The expression 'raised up' is used to describe from what is lower to what is higher, and because it is used to describe this it is also used to describe from what is exterior to what is interior, for the two are one and the same. Indeed what is lower and higher in human thought is exterior and interior in angelic thought, as with the idea of heaven. By men heaven is seen as that which is higher, but by angels as that which is interior. It is similarly so with the natural with man. In relation to his spiritual it is exterior, while the spiritual in turn is exterior in relation to the celestial. Or what amounts to the same, factual knowledge which belongs to the natural man is exterior in relation to truth, while truth is exterior in relation to good. Therefore also factual knowledge in relation to truth is called a covering as well as a garment, and so in a similar way is truth in relation to good.

[2] This explains why the expressions 'going up' to Jerusalem, but 'coming down' from Jerusalem are used; also 'going up' from Jerusalem to Zion, and 'coming down' from Zion to Jerusalem; for the parts surrounding Jerusalem mean the exterior features of the Church, Jerusalem meaning the more interior features and Zion the inmost. Since in the internal sense this verse describes the initial stage in the raising up of truth from the natural man to the rational man, therefore it is first of all said here that the affection for truth represented by Rebekah 'went down to the spring' and shortly after that 'went up'. For as stated above in 3074, Divine love flows into the affection for good, and from there into the affection for truth, and in so doing brings life and light to the things that are in the natural man, and at the same time orders them. This is the meaning of 'going down'. In this way truths are raised up from the natural man into the rational man where they are joined to good. This is the meaning of 'going up'.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.