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The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 195
195. Internal Meaning of Hosea, Chapter 12
1 Falsities grow by reasonings originating in the delights of the natural man. (2, 3)
2-5 The Lord strove with the posterity of Jacob from their infancy. (2)
6-7 Exhortation to be converted and not falsify truths. (2, 2)
8-14 The church gloried in its possession of the Word, and on account of their representative worship, and they were continually guarded by the Lord; and yet they falsified and adulterated the Word and the worship. (2)
Hosea 13:14-15
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I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? "Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.
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Though he is fruitful among his brothers, an east wind will come, the breath of Yahweh coming up from the wilderness; and his spring will become dry, and his fountain will be dried up. He will plunder the storehouse of treasure.
