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Amos 1

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1 Dies ist's, das Amos, der unter den Hirten zu Thekoa war, gesehen hat über Israel zur Zeit Usias, des Königs Judas, und Jerobeams, des Sohns Joas, des Königs Israels, zwei Jahre vor dem Erdbeben.

2 Und sprach: Der HERR wird aus Zion brüllen und seine Stimme aus Jerusalem hören lassen, daß die Auen der Hirten jämmerlich stehen werden und der Karmel oben verdorren wird.

3 So spricht der HERR: Um drei und vier Laster willen Damaskus will ich ihrer nicht schonen, darum daß sie Gilead mit eisernen Zacken gedroschen haben,

4 sondern ich will ein Feuer schicken in das Haus Hasaels, das soll die Paläste Benhadads verzehren.

5 Und ich will die Riegel zu Damaskus zerbrechen und die Einwohner auf dem Felde Aven samt dem, der das Zepter hält, aus dem Lusthause ausrotten, daß das Volk in Syrien soll gen Kir weggeführet werden, spricht der HERR.

6 So spricht der HERR: Um drei und vier Laster willen Gasas will ich ihrer nicht schonen, darum daß sie die Gefangenen weiter gefangen und ins Land Edom vertrieben haben,

7 sondern ich will ein Feuer in die Mauern zu Gasa schicken, das soll ihre Paläste verzehren.

8 Und will die Einwohner zu Asdod samt dem, der, das Zepter hält, aus Askalon ausrotten und meine Hand wider Akron kehren, daß umkommen soll, was von den Philistern noch übrig ist, spricht der HERR HERR.

9 So spricht der HERR: Um drei und vier Laster willen der Stadt Zor will ich ihrer nicht schonen, darum daß sie die Gefangenen weiter ins Land Edom vertrieben haben und nicht gedacht an den Bund der Brüder,

10 sondern ich will ein Feuer in die Mauern zu Zor schicken, das soll ihre Paläste verzehren.

11 So spricht der HERR: Um drei und vier Laster willen Edoms will ich sein nicht schonen, darum daß er seinen Bruder mit dem Schwert verfolget hat, und daß er ihre Schwangeren umgebracht und immer zerrissen in seinem Zorn und seinen Grimm ewig hält,

12 sondern ich will ein Feuer schicken gen Theman, das soll die Paläste zu Bazra verzehren.

13 So spricht der HERR: Um drei und vier Laster willen der Kinder Ammon will ich ihrer nicht schonen, darum daß sie die Schwangeren in Gilead zerrissen haben, damit sie ihre Grenze weiter machten,

14 sondern ich will ein Feuer anzünden in den Mauern Rabbas, das soll ihre Paläste verzehren, wenn man rufen wird zur Zeit des Streits, und wenn das Wetter kommen wird zur Zeit des Sturms.

15 Da wird dann ihr König samt seinen Fürsten gefangen weggeführet werden, spricht der HERR.

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Arcana Coelestia # 1197

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1197. 'From whom Pelishtim came forth' means the nation which came from these, and which means a knowledge of the cognitions of faith and charity. This is clear from the Word where they are mentioned many times. In the Ancient Church all were called Philistines who spoke much about faith and who asserted that salvation lay in faith, and yet possessed nothing of the life of faith. Consequently they more than any others were called uncircumcised, that is, devoid of charity. (For references to them as the uncircumcised, see 1 Samuel 14:6; 17:26, 36; 31:4; 2 Samuel 1:20; and elsewhere.) Being such as they were they inevitably made cognitions of faith matters of memory, for cognitions of spiritual and celestial things, and the arcana of faith themselves, become purely matters of memory when a person who is acquainted with them is devoid of charity. Things of the memory are so to speak dead if the person is not such that he lives according to them from conscience. When he does live according to them from conscience things of the memory are in that case matters of life as well, and only then do they remain with him for his use and salvation following life in the body. Knowledge and cognitions are of no value to anyone in the next life, even though he may have known all the arcana that have ever been revealed, if they have made no impact on his life.

[2] Throughout the prophetical parts of the Word 'the Philistines' means people such as these, as they do in the historical sections of the Word, as when Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines and made a covenant with Abimelech, the king of the Philistines, Genesis 20:1-end; 21:22-end; 26:1-33. Because the Philistines here meant cognitions of faith, and because Abraham represented the celestial things of faith, he sojourned there and made a covenant with them. So likewise did Isaac, who represented the spiritual things of faith. But Jacob did not do so because he represented the external features of the Church.

[3] That 'the Philistines' means, in general, knowledge of the cognitions of faith, and in particular people who make faith and salvation reside in cognitions alone which they make matters of memory, becomes clear also in Isaiah,

Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of you, that the rod which smites you has been broken, for from the serpent's root will come forth an adder, and its fruit will be a flying prester. Isaiah 14:29

Here 'the serpent's root' stands for facts, 'an adder' for evil arising out of falsities based on facts. 'The fruits of a flying prester' is their works which, because they are the product of evil desires, are called 'a flying prester'

[4] In Joel,

What are you to Me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the borders of Philistia? Are you rendering Me a recompense? Swiftly and speedily I will return your recompense upon your own head, inasmuch as you have taken My silver and My gold, and My good and desirable treasures you have carried into your temples, and have sold the sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem to the sons of the Javanites, 1 that you might remove them far away from their border. Joel 3:4-6.

What 'the Philistines' and the whole of Philistia, or 'all its borders', are used to mean here is plain. 'Silver' and 'gold' here are the spiritual and celestial things of faith, 'good and desirable treasures' cognitions of them. 'They carried them into their temples' means that they were in possession of them and proclaimed them. 'They sold the sons of Judah and the sons of Jerusalem' however means that they possessed no love and no faith. In the Word 'Judah' is the celestial element of faith, and 'Jerusalem' the spiritual element deriving from it, which were 'removed far away from their borders'. Further examples exist in the Prophets, such as Jeremiah 25:20; Jeremiah 47:1-end; Ezekiel 16:27, 57; 25:15-16; Amos 1:8; 19; Zephaniah 2:5; Psalms 87:4; and the people of Caphtor are mentioned in Deuteronomy 2:23; Jeremiah 47:4; Amos 9:7.

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