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Hosea 3

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1 En de HEERE zeide tot mij: Ga wederom henen, bemin een vrouw, die, bemind zijnde van haar vriend, nochtans overspel doet; gelijk de HEERE de kinderen Israels bemint, maar zij zien om, naar andere goden, en beminnen de flessen der druiven.

2 En ik kocht ze mij voor vijftien zilverlingen, en een homer gerst, en een halven homer gerst.

3 En ik zeide tot haar: Gij zult vele dagen na mij blijven zitten (gij zult niet hoereren, noch een anderen man geworden), en ik ook na u.

4 Want de kinderen Israels zullen vele dagen blijven zitten, zonder koning, en zonder vorst, en zonder offer, en zonder opgericht beeld, en zonder efod en terafim.

5 Daarna zullen zich de kinderen Israels bekeren, en zoeken den HEERE, hun God, en David, hun koning; en zij zullen vrezende komen tot den HEERE en tot Zijn goedheid, in het laatste der dagen.

   

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Älteres Paar im Kücheninterieur, by Friedrich Friedländer (1825–1901)

In general, men are driven by intellect and women by affections, and because of this men in the Bible generally represent knowledge and truth and women generally represent love and the desire for good. This generally carries over into marriage, where the man's growing knowledge and understanding and the woman's desire to be good and useful are a powerful combination. In many cases in the Bible, then, "husband" refers to things of truth and understanding, much as "man" does. Magnificent things can happen in a true marriage, though, when both partners are looking to the Lord. If a husband opens his heart to his wife, it's as though she can implant her loves inside him, transforming his intellectual urges into a love of growing wise. She in turn can grow in her love of that blooming wisdom, and use it for joy in their married life and in their caring for children and others in their life. Many couples, even in heaven, stay in that state -- called "Spiritual" -- growing deeper and deeper to eternity. There is the potential, though, for the couple to be transformed: through the nurturing love of his wife the husband can pass from a love of growing wise to an actual love of wisdom itself, and the wife can be transformed from the love of her husband's wisdom into the wisdom of that love -- the actual expression of the love of the Lord they have built together. In that state -- called "Celestial" -- the husband represents love and the desire for good, and the wife represents truth and knowledge.