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Hosea 7:9

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9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.

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Israel

  

'The children of Israel,' in Isaiah 14:2, signify the Gentiles.

In Jeremiah 23:8, 'Israel' represents the spiritual natural church.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 768)


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Apocalypse Revealed # 632

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632. "Because she has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her licentiousness." This symbolically means, because by profanations of the Word and adulterations of the church's goodness and truth, it has led astray all the people it was able to bring under its dominion.

Babylon symbolizes the Roman Catholic religion, as above. Wine symbolizes truth springing from goodness, and in an opposite sense, falsity arising from evil (no. 316). Licentiousness then symbolizes the falsification of truth, and the wrath of her licentiousness symbolizes its adulteration and profanation (no. 134). To make all nations drink means, symbolically, to lead astray all the people they were able to bring under their dominion - making to drink of that wine symbolizing to lead astray, and nations symbolizing people who are under their sway.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.