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Hosea 13

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1 Kiam Efraim parolis, oni timis; li altigxis en Izrael. Sed li farigxis kulpa per Baal, kaj mortis.

2 Nun ili ankoraux pli pekas; ili faris al si el sia argxento statuojn, idolojn laux sia kompreno, kiuj estas ja cxiuj faritajxo de forgxistoj; ili parolas pri ili:Tiuj, kiuj oferbucxas homojn, povas kisi la bovidojn.

3 Pro tio ili estos kiel matena nebulo, kiel roso, kiu frue malaperas, kiel grenventumajxo, kiun la vento forblovas de la drasxejo, kaj kiel fumo el la kamentubo.

4 Sed Mi, la Eternulo, estas via Dio de post la lando Egipta; kaj alian Dion krom Mi vi ne devas koni, kaj ne ekzistas alia Savanto krom Mi.

5 Mi konis vin en la dezerto, en la lando de sekeco.

6 Kiam ili havis pasxtejon, ili satigxis; kaj kiam ili satigxis, tiam fierigxis ilia koro, kaj tial ili forgesis Min.

7 Tial Mi estos por ili kiel leono, kiel leopardo, kiu embuskas cxe la vojo.

8 Mi atakos ilin, kiel ursino, kiu perdis la infanojn, Mi dissxiros ilian sxlositan koron, Mi mangxegos ilin tie, kiel leono; sovagxaj bestoj ilin dissxiros.

9 Vi pereigis vin, ho Izrael, cxar via savo estas nur en Mi.

10 Kie estas via regxo? li savu vin en cxiuj viaj urboj. Kie estas viaj jugxistoj, pri kiuj vi diris:Donu al mi regxon kaj estrojn?

11 Mi donis al vi regxon en Mia kolero, kaj Mi forprenos lin en Mia indigno.

12 Kunpakitaj estas la malbonagoj de Efraim, lia peko estas konservita.

13 Doloroj de naskantino atakos lin. Li estas infano sensagxa; alie li ne starus longe en la pozicio de naskigxantaj infanoj.

14 El SXeol Mi savos ilin, de la morto Mi liberigos ilin; kie estas via veneno, ho morto? kie estas via pereigeco, ho SXeol? Sed la konsolo estas ankoraux kasxita antaux Miaj okuloj.

15 Kvankam li estas fruktoricxa inter la fratoj, venos tamen vento orienta, vento de la Eternulo, blovanta el la dezerto, kaj tiam elsekigxos lia fonto, dezertigxos lia devenejo; kaj li disrabos la trezorejon de cxiuj grandvalorajxoj.

16 Samario suferos, cxar gxi ribelis kontraux sia Dio. De glavo ili falos; iliaj malgrandaj infanoj estos frakasitaj, iliaj gravedulinoj estos dishakitaj.

   

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True Christian Religion # 6

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6. (i) THE WHOLE OF THE SACRED SCRIPTURE AND ALL THE DOCTRINES EXTRACTED FROM IT BY CHURCHES THROUGHOUT CHRISTENDOM TEACH THAT THERE IS A GOD AND HE IS ONE.

The reason why the whole of the Sacred Scripture teaches the existence of God is that its inmost meaning is concerned with nothing but God, that is, the Divine proceeding from God. For Scripture was dictated by God, and nothing can proceed from God except what He Himself is, and this we call the Divine. This resides in the inmost meaning of Scripture. However, in its lower forms which are derived from the Divine, the Holy Scripture is adapted to the grasp of angels and men. In these forms it is likewise Divine, but in a different guise; in this case the Divine is called Celestial, Spiritual and Natural. These are merely the veils of God, since God Himself, as He exists in the inmost meaning of the Word, cannot be looked on by any created being. For when Moses begged to see the glory of Jehovah, God told him that no one can see God and live. It is the same with the inmost meaning of the Word, in which God is in His Being and Essence.

[2] Still the Divine, which is inmostly contained in it and is protected by such veils as adapt it to the grasp of angels and men, shines out like light passing through crystalline structures, but the light appears to differ according to the state of mind which a person has acquired from God or from himself. For everyone who has acquired his state of mind from God, the Sacred Scripture is like a mirror, in which he sees God, everyone in his own fashion. This mirror is composed of the truths which he learns from the Word and absorbs by living his life in accordance with them. A first conclusion from this is that the Sacred Scripture is the fulness of God.

[3] This teaches not only the existence of God, but also that He is one. This is evident from the fact that the truths, which, as I have said, compose that mirror, are held together in a single bond and prevent a person from thinking about God except as one. That is why every person, whose reason has absorbed some holiness from the Word, knows, as if of himself, that God is one, and regards talking about several gods as a kind of madness. Angels cannot open their mouths to say 'Gods', because the aura of heaven in which they live offers resistance. The Sacred Scripture teaches that God is one not only universally, as I asserted, but in many particular passages, such as the following.

Hear, O Israel, Jehovah our God is one Jehovah, Deuteronomy 6:4; similarly Mark 12:29.

Surely God is among you, and there is no God beside Me, Isaiah 45:14-15. Am I not Jehovah, and there is no other God beside me? Isaiah 45:21.

I am Jehovah your God, and you are not to acknowledge any God beside Me, Hosea 13:4.

Thus spoke Jehovah, the King of Israel, I am the First and the Last, and there is no God beside Me, Isaiah 44:6. On that day Jehovah will be King over all the earth; on that day Jehovah will be one, and His name one, Zechariah 14:9.

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