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Hosea 11

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1 Kiam Izrael estis junulo, Mi lin ekamis, kaj el Egiptujo Mi vokis Mian filon.

2 Sed nun oni vokas ilin, kaj ili sin deturnas; al la Baaloj ili oferas, kaj al idoloj ili incensas.

3 Mi instruis al Efraim la iradon; Mi prenis ilin je la brako, kaj ili ne rimarkis, ke Mi ilin kuracas.

4 Per sxnuroj de homoj Mi tiris ilin, per ligiloj de amo; Mi estis por ili kiel levanto de la jugo, kaj Mi metis antaux ili la mangxajxon.

5 Ili ne revenos en la landon Egiptan, sed Asirio estos ilia regxo, cxar ili ne volis penti.

6 Glavo falos sur liajn urbojn kaj ekstermos liajn idojn kaj formangxos ilin pro iliaj entreprenoj.

7 Mia popolo rigidigxis en la defalo de Mi; kaj kvankam oni gxin vokas al la Plejaltulo, gxi ne levas sin.

8 Kiel Mi agu kun vi, ho Efraim? kiel Mi protektu vin, ho Izrael? CXu Mi faru al vi, kiel al Adma? cxu Mi egaligu vin al Ceboim? Renversigxis en Mi Mia koro, varmegigxis Mia tuta kompato.

9 Mi ne agos laux Mia flama kolero, Mi ne plu ekstermos Efraimon; cxar Mi estas Dio, ne homo, Mi estas Sanktulo inter vi; Mi ne venos en furiozo.

10 La Eternulon ili sekvos, kiel kriantan leonon; kiam Li krios, tiam timigite venos la filoj de okcidente.

11 Timigite kiel birdo ili venos el Egiptujo, kaj kiel kolombo el la lando Asiria; kaj Mi enlogxigos ilin en iliaj domoj, diras la Eternulo.

12 Kun mensogoj cxirkauxis Min Efraim, kaj kun falsajxo la domo de Izrael; sed Jehuda ankoraux tenis sin je Dio kaj estis fidela al la Sanktulo.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 870

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870. That 'a dove' means the truths and goods of faith residing with a person who is to be regenerated is clear from the meaning of 'a dove' in the Word, especially from the dove that alighted on Jesus when He was baptized, as mentioned in Matthew,

When Jesus was baptized He went up immediately out of the water, and behold, the heavens were opened, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on Himself. Matthew 3:16-17; and in John 1:32, Luke 3:21-22; Mark 1:10-11.

Here 'a dove' meant nothing else than the holiness of faith, and the 'baptism' itself meant regeneration. It also meant therefore the truth and good of faith residing with the new Church that was to arise, which truth and good people receive through being regenerated by the Lord.

[2] Similar things were represented and embodied in the young doves or the turtle doves - mentioned in Leviticus 1:14-end; 5:7-10; 12:6; 14:21-22; 15:14-15, 29-30; Numbers 6:10-11; Luke 2:22-24 - which they used to offer as sacrifices and as burnt offerings in the Jewish Church, as becomes clear from each of the references just given. Anyone may grasp that they had such a meaning merely from the fact that they could not have been anything else than things of a representative nature. Otherwise they would be pointless, and in no sense Divine, for the external side of the Church is lifeless, but is made alive by the internal, as is the internal by the Lord.

[3] That 'a dove' in general means the intellectual concepts of faith is also clear in the Prophets, as in Hosea,

Ephraim will be like a stupid dove with no heart; they called Egypt, they went away to Assyria. Hosea 7:11.

In the same prophet, speaking of Ephraim,

They will tremble like a bird out of Egypt and a dove from the land of Assyria. Hosea 11:11.

Here 'Ephraim' stands for one who has intelligence, 'Egypt' for him who has knowledge, 'Assyria' for him who is rational, and 'a dove' stands for what belongs to the intellectual concepts of faith, the subject there being the regeneration of the spiritual Church. In David,

O Jehovah, deliver not the soul of [Your] turtle dove to the wild animal. Psalms 74:19.

'Wild animal' stands for people without any charity, 'the soul of a turtle dove' for the life of faith. See what has been stated and shown already in 40, 776, about birds meaning intellectual things. Harmless, beautiful, clean, and useful birds in particular mean intellectual truths and goods; but harmful, ugly, unclean, and useless ones, such as the raven, which is here used as the opposite of the dove, mean their opposites, namely falsities.

  
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