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Hoseas 3

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1 Og Herren sa til mig: Gå atter bort og elsk en kvinne som er elsket av sin venn og allikevel driver hor, likesom Herren elsker Israels barn, men de vender sig til andre guder og elsker rosinkaker*! / {* d.e. den lokkende avgudsdyrkelse.}

2 Da kjøpte jeg mig en slik kvinne for femten sekel sølv og en homer bygg og en letek* bygg. / {* en letek var en halv homer.}

3 Og jeg sa til henne: I mange dager skal du få sitte alene, uten å drive hor og uten å ha med nogen mann å gjøre; og jeg skal bære mig likedan at mot dig.

4 For i mange dager skal Israels barn sitte uten konge og fyrste, uten offer og billedstøtte, uten livkjortel og husguder.

5 Derefter skal Israels barn vende om og søke Herren sin Gud og David sin konge, og bevende skal de søke Herren og hans gaver i de siste dager*. / {* 1MO 49, 1.}

   

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Älteres Paar im Kücheninterieur, by Friedrich Friedländer (1825–1901)

In general, men are driven by intellect and women by affections, and because of this men in the Bible generally represent knowledge and truth and women generally represent love and the desire for good. This generally carries over into marriage, where the man's growing knowledge and understanding and the woman's desire to be good and useful are a powerful combination. In many cases in the Bible, then, "husband" refers to things of truth and understanding, much as "man" does. Magnificent things can happen in a true marriage, though, when both partners are looking to the Lord. If a husband opens his heart to his wife, it's as though she can implant her loves inside him, transforming his intellectual urges into a love of growing wise. She in turn can grow in her love of that blooming wisdom, and use it for joy in their married life and in their caring for children and others in their life. Many couples, even in heaven, stay in that state -- called "Spiritual" -- growing deeper and deeper to eternity. There is the potential, though, for the couple to be transformed: through the nurturing love of his wife the husband can pass from a love of growing wise to an actual love of wisdom itself, and the wife can be transformed from the love of her husband's wisdom into the wisdom of that love -- the actual expression of the love of the Lord they have built together. In that state -- called "Celestial" -- the husband represents love and the desire for good, and the wife represents truth and knowledge.