Bible

 

Hosea 12

Studie

   

1 In Ephraim ist allenthalben Lüge wider mich und im Hause Israel falscher Gottesdienst. Aber Juda hält noch fest an Gott und am rechten heiligen Gottesdienst.

2 Ephraim aber weidet sich vom Winde und läuft dem Ostwinde nach und macht täglich der Abgötterei und des Schadens mehr; sie machen mit Assur einen Bund und bringen Balsam nach Ägypten.

3 Darum wird der HERR die Sache Judas führen und Jakob heimsuchen nach seinem Wesen und ihm vergelten nach seinem Verdienst.

4 Ja (sagen sie), er hat im Mutterleibe seinen Bruder untertreten und von allen Kräften mit Gott gekämpfet.

5 Er kämpfte mit dem Engel und siegete, denn er weinete und bat ihn; daselbst hat er ihn ja zu Bethel funden und daselbst hat er mit uns geredet.

6 Aber der HERR ist der Gott Zebaoth; HERR ist sein Name.

7 So bekehre dich nun zu deinem Gott, halte Barmherzigkeit und Recht und hoffe stets auf deinen Gott!

8 Aber der Kaufmann hat eine falsche Waage in seiner Hand und betrügt gerne.

9 Denn Ephraim spricht: Ich bin reich, ich habe genug; man wird mir keine Missetat finden in aller meiner Arbeit, das Sünde sei.

10 Ich aber, der HERR, bin dein Gott aus Ägyptenland her, und der ich dich noch in den Hütten wohnen lasse, wie man zur Jahrzeit pfleget,

11 und rede zu den Propheten; und ich bin's der so viel Weissagung gibt und durch die Propheten mich anzeige.

12 In Gilead ist's Abgötterei, und zu Gilgal opfern sie Ochsen vergeblich; und haben so viel Altäre, als Mandeln auf dem Felde stehen.

13 Jakob mußte fliehen in das Land Syrien, und Israel mußte um ein Weib dienen, um ein Weib mußte er hüten.

14 Aber hernach führete der HERR Israel aus Ägypten durch einen Propheten und ließ sein hüten durch einen Propheten.

   

Ze Swedenborgových děl

 

Arcana Coelestia # 4318

Prostudujte si tuto pasáž

  
/ 10837  
  

4318. THE GRAND MAN AND CORRESPONDENCE - continued

IN THIS SECTION CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE SENSES IN GENERAL

The chief characteristic of angels' intelligence is their knowledge and perception that all life comes from the Lord, also that heaven in its entirety corresponds to His Divine Human and consequently that all angels, spirits, and men correspond to heaven. They also know and perceive in what way they correspond. These are the main characteristics of intelligence which are present in angels far more than in men. From them angels know and perceive countless things which exist in the heavens and consequently things in the world also, since the things which manifest themselves in the world and the natural order there are causes and effects that stem from those things in the heavens as their first beginnings. For the whole natural order is a theatre representative of the Lord's kingdom.

  
/ 10837  
  

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

Ze Swedenborgových děl

 

Arcana Coelestia # 3481

Prostudujte si tuto pasáž

  
/ 10837  
  

3481. I have quite often been in conversation with Jews in the next life. They appear in a forward position on the lower earth below the level of the left foot, and on one occasion I also spoke about the Word, the land of Canaan, and the Lord. I said that the Word contained very deep arcana which are not visible to men. This point they agreed with. After that I said that all the arcana there deal with the Messiah and His kingdom. This also they assented to. But when I told them that Messiah in Hebrew is the same as Christ in Greek they would not listen. And again when I said that the Messiah was the Most Holy One, that Jehovah was within Him, that none other was meant by the Holy One of Israel and by the God of Jacob, and that seeing that He is the Most Holy One none can be in His kingdom except those who are holy not outwardly but inwardly - who are not accordingly under the influence of the filthy love of the world, or of a superior attitude towards other nations, or of hatred for one another - they could not listen to it.

[2] After that I said that the Messiah's kingdom according to prophecy was going to last for ever, and those with Him would also inherit the land for ever. If His kingdom were of this world and they were brought into the land of Canaan it would last only for the few years that constitute the human life-span. Besides, all who had died since the expulsion of the Jews from the land of Canaan would not enjoy such blessedness. From this, I said, they could recognize that the land of Canaan represented and meant the heavenly kingdom; indeed they would recognize it all the more easily, in that they now knew they were in the next life and were going to live for ever, from which it was evident that this next life was the place where the Messiah had His kingdom. And, I continued, if they were allowed to talk to angels they could know that the whole angelic heaven was the Lord's kingdom.

[3] I added that by the new earth, the new Jerusalem, and the new temple described in Ezekiel nothing else could be meant than such a kingdom of the Messiah. To all these points they were unable to make any response apart from weeping bitterly at the prospect of being led into the land of Canaan by the Messiah only to die after so few years and leave behind the blessedness they were to enjoy there.

  
/ 10837  
  

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