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Amos 3:5

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5 L’uccello cade egli nella rete in terra, se non gli è tesa un insidia? La tagliuola scatta essa dal suolo, se non ha preso qualcosa?

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Exploring the Meaning of Amos 3

Napsal(a) Helen Kennedy

A church cannot serve two masters. It cannot peacefully coexist with truths and falsities. To want to live with both and to seek a compromise will cause the church to be laid to waste. The church will perish, and the goods and truths of the Word will be taken away from it.

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Forest

  
Photo by Gretchen Keith

Plants in general stand for facts and ideas, so it makes sense that a forest in the Bible represents a collection or system of external, factual, ideas. This can be a collection on its own, or it can be the collected external knowledge of a church. It can also represent the level of a person's mind where he or she deals with such systems of ideas.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 9011 [1,3-7], 9642 [3,23]; The Apocalypse Explained 650 [26,49])