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1 Ouvi esta palavra, vós, vacas de Basã, que estais no monte de Samária, que oprimis os pobres, que esmagais os necessitados, que dizeis a vossos maridos: Dai cá, e bebamos.

2 Jurou o Senhor Deus, pela sua santidade, que dias estão para vir sobre vós, em que vos levarão com anzóis, e aos que sairdes por último com anzóis de pesca.

3 E saireis pelas brechas, cada qual em frente de si, e sereis lançadas para Harmom, diz o senhor.

4 Vinde a Betel, e transgredi; a Gilgal, e multiplicai as transgressões; e cada manhã trazei os vossos sacrifícios, e de três em três dias os vossos dízimos.

5 E oferecei sacrifício de louvores do que é levedado, e apregoai ofertas voluntárias, publicai-as; pois disso gostais, ó filhos de Israel, diz o Senhor Deus.

6 Por isso também vos dei limpeza de dentes em todas as vossas cidades, e falta de pão em todos os vossos lugares; contudo não vos convertestes a mim, diz o Senhor.

7 Além disso, retive de vós a chuva, quando ainda faltavam três meses para a ceifa; e fiz que chovesse sobre uma cidade, e que não chovesse sobre outra cidade; sobre um campo choveu, mas o outro, sobre o qual não choveu, secou-se.

8 Andaram errantes duas ou três cidades, indo a outra cidade para beberem água, mas não se saciaram; contudo não vos convertestes a mim, diz o Senhor.

9 Feri-vos com crestamento e ferrugem; a multidão das vossas hortas, e das vossas vinhas, e das vossas figueiras, e das vossas oliveiras, foi devorada pela locusta; contudo não vos convertestes a mim, diz o Senhor.

10 Enviei a peste contra vós, à maneira de Egito; os vossos mancebos matei à espada, e os vossos cavalos deixei levar presos, e o fedor do vosso arraial fiz subir aos vossos narizes; contudo não vos convertestes a mim, diz o Senhor.

11 Subverti alguns dentre vós, como Deus subverteu a Sodoma e Gomorra, e ficastes sendo como um tição arrebatado do incêndio; contudo não vos convertestes a mim, diz o Senhor.

12 Portanto assim te farei, ó Israel, e porque isso te farei, prepara-te, ó Israel, para te encontrares com o teu Deus.

13 Porque é ele o que forma os montes, e cria o vento, e declara ao homem qual seja o seu pensamento, o que faz da manhã trevas, e anda sobre os lugares altos da terra; o Senhor, o Deus dos exércitos é o seu nome.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 502

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502. Which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt. This symbolizes the two hellish loves, namely, a love of ruling springing from a love of self, and a love of holding sway from a conceit in one's own intelligence, loves which are present in the church where there is not one God and where the Lord is not worshiped, and where people do not live in accordance with the Ten Commandments.

Sodom symbolizes, in the spiritual sense, a love of ruling springing from a love of self, as we shall presently see; and Egypt symbolizes, in the spiritual sense, a love of holding sway from a conceit in one's own intelligence, as we shall also presently see. So, because these two loves are symbolized, therefore the city is called, spiritually speaking, Sodom and Egypt.

These two loves are present in the church where there is not one God and where the Lord is not worshiped, and where people do not live in accordance with the Ten Commandments, because people are born with these two loves, and they come into them as they grow up. Nor can these loves be removed except by God the Savior and by a life in accordance with His commandments, and God cannot remove them unless people turn to Him, and neither is a life in accordance with His commandments possible unless a person is led by Him. Actually it is possible, but not a life that contains anything of heaven and so of the church.

A life like that is possible only from Him who is life. That the Lord is that life may be seen in John 1:1, 4; 5:26; 6:33-35ff., 11:25-26; 14:6, 19, and in many other places.

[2] A love of ruling springing from a love of self, and a love of holding sway from a conceit in one's own intelligence, are the principal loves of all the loves in hell, and so are the origin of all the evils and thus of all the falsities in the church. This is something unknown at the present day. The delights of these loves, which surpass the delights of all the heart's pleasures, cause it to be unknown, even though they are, spiritually, Sodom and Egypt.

That Sodom is a love of ruling springing from a love of self can be seen from the description of Sodom in Genesis, where we are told that when angels arrived there, the inhabitants tried to forcibly assault them at the house of Lot, and that fire and brimstone rained down on them from heaven (Genesis 19:1ff.). Fire and brimstone symbolize that love, together with its appetites.

I saw similar sights when cities and societies of people like that were overthrown at the time of the Last Judgment and their inhabitants cast into hell.

These loves and their accompanying evils are symbolized by Sodom and Gomorrah in the following passages: Isaiah 1:10; 3:8-9; 13:19.

[3] That this love is symbolically meant by Sodom is unknown in the world, but remember it and recall it when you come after death into the world of spirits and you will be completely convinced.

It should be known, however, that a love of ruling springing from a love of self and a love of ruling springing from a love of performing useful services are two different things. The latter love is a heavenly love, while the first is a hellish one. Consequently, when one is in first place, the other is in last place; which is to say, when a love of ruling springing from a love of self forms the head, then a love of ruling springing from a love of performing useful services - which is a love of serving the neighbor originating from the Lord - forms first the feet, then the soles of the feet, and finally is trampled underfoot.

On the other hand, when a love of ruling springing from a love of performing useful services - which, as we said, is a heavenly love - forms the head, then a love of ruling springing from a love of self - which, as we said, is a hellish love - forms first the feet, then the soles of the feet, and finally is trampled underfoot.

Still, these two loves can hardly be distinguished by a person in the world. That is because in outward appearance they are similar. But they can be told apart by this, that a heavenly love is present in people who turn to the Lord and live in accordance with the Ten Commandments, while a hellish love is present in people who do not turn to the Lord, and who do not live in accordance with the Ten Commandments.

  
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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.