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Hosea 13

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1 Wenn Ephraim redete, war Schrecken; es erhob sich in Israel. Aber es verschuldete sich durch Baal und starb.

2 Und nun fahren sie fort zu sündigen und machen sich von ihrem Silber gegossene Bilder, Götzenbilder nach ihrem Verstande, allesamt ein Werk der Künstler; von eben diesen sagt man: Die Menschen, welche opfern, küssen die Kälber!

3 Darum werden sie sein wie die Morgenwolke und wie der Tau, der früh verschwindet, wie Spreu, welche von der Tenne dahinfliegt, und wie Rauch aus dem Gitter.

4 Ich aber bin Jehova, dein Gott, vom Lande Ägypten her; und du kennst keinen Gott außer mir, und da ist kein Retter als ich.

5 Ich habe dich ja gekannt in der Wüste, in dem Lande der Gluten.

6 Ihrer Weide gemäß wurden sie satt, sie wurden satt, und ihr Herz erhob sich; darum haben sie mich vergessen.

7 Und so wurde ich ihnen wie ein Löwe; wie ein Pardel laure ich am Wege;

8 ich werde sie anfallen wie eine Bärin, welche der Jungen beraubt ist, und werde den Verschluß ihres Herzens zerreißen; und ich werde sie daselbst verzehren wie ein Löwe; die Tiere des Feldes werden sie zerfleischen.

9 Es hat dich zu Grunde gerichtet, Israel, daß du wider mich, wider deine Hilfe, bist.

10 Wo ist nun dein König, daß er dich rette in allen deinen Städten, und wo deine Richter, von welchen du sagtest: Gib mir einen König und Fürsten?

11 Ich gab dir einen König in meinem Zorn, und nahm ihn weg in meinem Grimm.

12 Die Ungerechtigkeit Ephraims ist zusammengebunden, aufbewahrt seine Sünde;

13 Wehen einer Gebärenden werden ihn ankommen. Er ist ein unweiser Sohn; denn wenn es Zeit ist, tritt er nicht ein in den Durchbruch der Kinder.

14 Von Gewalt des Scheols werde ich sie erlösen, vom Tode sie befreien! Wo sind, o Tod, deine Seuchen? Wo ist, o Scheol, dein Verderben? Reue ist vor meinen Augen verborgen.

15 Denn er wird Frucht tragen unter den Brüdern. Ein Ostwind wird kommen, ein Wind Jehovas, von der Wüste heraufsteigend, und sein Born wird vertrocknen und sein Quell versiegen; er wird die Schatzkammer aller kostbaren Geräte plündern.

16 Samaria wird büßen, denn es ist widerspenstig gewesen gegen seinen Gott; sie werden durchs Schwert fallen, ihre Kinder werden zerschmettert und ihre Schwangeren aufgeschlitzt werden.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 1949

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1949. That 'he will be a wild-ass man' means rational truth, which is described, is clear from the meaning of 'a wild ass' as rational truth. In the Word, horses, horsemen, mules, and asses are mentioned many times, but nobody up to now has known that they mean intellectual concepts, rational concepts, and factual knowledge. That these are meant will be abundantly confirmed, in the Lord's Divine mercy, in their separate places. Belonging to the same group is the wild-ass, for such is a mule living in the wilderness or an ass in the wild and means man's rational - not the rational in its entirety, but only rational truth. The rational is composed of good and of truth, that is, of things belonging to charity and of those belonging to faith. It is rational truth that is meant by a wild ass. This then is what Ishmael represents and is described in the present verse.

[2] How can anyone believe that rational truth separated from rational good is of such a nature? I myself would not have known if I had not been taught from actual experience. Whether you refer to it as rational truth or as the person whose rational is of that nature, it amounts to the same thing. The person whose rational is such as consists in truth alone, even though this is the truth of faith, and does not at the same time consist in the good of charity, is altogether such. He is quick to find fault, makes no allowances, is against all, regards everyone as being in error, is instantly prepared to rebuke, to chasten, and to punish, shows no pity, does not apply himself and makes no effort to redirect people's thinking; for he views everything from the standpoint of truth, and nothing from the standpoint of good. In short, he is a hard man. The one thing to soften his hardness is the good of charity, for good is the soul of truth, and when good draws near and implants itself in truth the latter becomes so different that it can hardly be recognized. 'Isaac' represents the Lord's Rational Man which sprang from good, not from truth separated from good. So it was that Ishmael was cast out and after that dwelt in the desert, and that his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt, Genesis 21:9-21, all of which events are representative of a person who is endowed with a rational such as that.

[3] Mention is made of wild asses in the prophetical parts of the Word, as in Isaiah,

The palace will be deserted, the multitude of the city forsaken; the hill and the watchtower will become dens, even for ever the joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks. Isaiah 32:14.

This refers to the devastation of intellectual concepts - which when devastated of truths are called 'the joy of wild asses' and when devastated of goods 'a pasture of flocks' - so that the rational does not exist. In Jeremiah,

The wild asses stood on the hills, they panted for air like sea-monsters; their eyes failed because there was no herbage. Jeremiah 14:6.

This refers to a drought, or absence of good and truth. Reference is made to the wild asses 'panting for air' when people lay hold of inane ideas instead of realities which are truths. 'Their eyes failed' stands for failing to grasp what truth is.

[4] In Hosea,

For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself; Ephraim has sought lovers 1 with a prostitute's hire. Hosea 8:9.

This refers to Israel or the spiritual Church. 'Ephraim' stands for the understanding part of it. 'Going up to Assyria' stands for reasoning about whether the truth is indeed the truth. 'A wild ass alone' stands for the rational thus destitute of truths. In the same prophet,

For he will be among his brothers like a wild ass, Jehovah's east wind will come rising up from the desert, and his spring will become dry, and his fountain dried up. It will strip his treasury of all precious vessels. Hosea 13:15.

This refers to 'Ephraim' by whom the understanding part of the spiritual Church is meant, and to the dissolution of the rational which is like 'a wild ass'. In David,

Jehovah God will send forth springs into the rivers; they will go among the mountains. They give drink to every wild beast of the fields; the wild asses quench their thirst. Psalms 104:10-11.

'Springs' stands for cognitions, 'wild beasts of the fields' for goods, 'the wild asses' for the truths of reason.

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1. literally, loves

  
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