The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 201
201. Internal Meaning of Amos, Chapter 1 (1)
1-2 [The teaching of] the Lord about the Word and doctrine from the Word: (1, 6)
3-5 About those who pervert knowledges [cognitiones] from the Word which are of service to doctrine and who thus turn away also the good of those knowledges: these will perish. (3, 15)
6-8 About those who apply the Word to a heretical falsity: these will perish. (3)
9-10 About those who pervert knowledges [cognitiones] of good and truth, and thereby do injury to the external sense of the Word. (3)
11-12 About those who pervert the sense of the letter of the Word by falsity, by which doctrine perishes. (3)
13-15 About those who falsify the truths of the sense of the letter of the Word: they do not resist in the day of combat, but destroy the truth of doctrine. (3, 15)
Amos 1:3-5
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Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron;
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but I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, and it will devour the palaces of Ben Hadad.
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I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven, and him who holds the scepter from the house of Eden; and the people of Syria shall go into captivity to Kir," says Yahweh.
