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Amós 5

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1 Ouvi esta palavra que levanto como lamentação sobre vós, ó casa de Israel.

2 A virgem de Israel caiu; nunca mais tornará a levantar-se; desamparada jaz na sua terra; não há quem a levante.

3 Porque assim diz o Senhor Deus: A cidade da qual saem mil terá de resto cem, e aquela da qual saem cem terá dez para a casa de Israel.

4 Pois assim diz o Senhor à casa de Israel: Buscai-me, e vivei.

5 Mas não busqueis a Betel, nem entreis em Gilgal, nem passeis a Berseba; porque Gilgal certamente irá ao cativeiro, e Betel será desfeita em nada.

6 Buscai ao Senhor, e vivei; para que ele não irrompa na casa de José como fogo e a consuma, e não haja em Betel quem o apague.

7 Vós que converteis o juízo em alosna, e deitais por terra a justiça,

8 procurai aquele que fez as Plêiades e o Oriom, e torna a sombra da noite em manhã, e transforma o dia em noite; o que chama as águas do mar, e as derrama sobre a terra; o Senhor é o seu nome.

9 O que faz vir súbita destruição sobre o forte, de sorte que vem a ruína sobre a fortaleza.

10 Eles odeiam ao que na porta os repreende, e abominam ao que fala a verdade.

11 Portanto, visto que pisais o pobre, e dele exigis tributo de trigo, embora tenhais edificado casas de pedras lavradas, não habitareis nelas; e embora tenhais plantado vinhas desejáveis, não bebereis do seu vinho.

12 Pois sei que são muitas as vossas transgressões, e graves os vossos pecados; afligis o justo, aceitais peitas, e na porta negais o direito aos necessitados.

13 Portanto, o que for prudente guardará silêncio naquele tempo, porque o tempo será mau.

14 Buscai o bem, e não o mal, para que vivais; e assim o Senhor, o Deus dos exércitos, estará convosco, como dizeis.

15 Aborrecei o mal, e amai o bem, e estabelecei o juízo na porta. Talvez o Senhor, o Deus dos exércitos, tenha piedade do resto de José.

16 Portanto, assim diz o Senhor Deus dos exércitos, o Senhor: Em todas as praças haverá pranto, e em todas as ruas dirão: Ai! ai! E ao lavrador chamarão para choro, e para pranto os que souberem prantear.

17 E em todas as vinhas haverá pranto; porque passarei pelo meio de ti, diz o Senhor.

18 Ai de vós que desejais o dia do Senhor! Para que quereis vós este dia do Senhor? Ele é trevas e não luz.

19 E como se um homem fugisse de diante do leão, e se encontrasse com ele o urso; ou como se, entrando em casa, encostasse a mão à parede, e o mordesse uma cobra.

20 Não será, pois, o dia do Senhor trevas e não luz? não será completa escuridade, sem nenhum resplendor?

21 Aborreço, desprezo as vossas festas, e não me deleito nas vossas assembléias solenes.

22 Ainda que me ofereçais holocaustos, juntamente com as vossas ofertas de cereais, não me agradarei deles; nem atentarei para as ofertas pacíficas de vossos animais cevados.

23 Afasta de mim o estrépito dos teus cânticos, porque não ouvirei as melodias das tuas liras.

24 Corra, porém, a justiça como as águas, e a retidão como o ribeiro perene.

25 Oferecestes-me vós sacrifícios e oblações no deserto por quarenta anos, ó casa de Israel?

26 Sim, levastes Sicute, vosso rei, e Quium, vosso deus-estrela, imagens que fizestes para vos mesmos.

27 Portanto vos levarei cativos para além de Damasco, diz o Senhor, cujo nome é o Deus dos exércitos.

   

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Apocalypse Explained # 560

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560. And stings were in their tails, signifies craftiness in deceiving by means of them. This is evident from the signification of "stings," as being craftiness and shrewdness in persuading as to falsities; it follows therefore that they had in them the power to hurt men, for one who deceives craftily and shrewdly is especially harmful. The stings were "in their tails," because they deceive by means of knowledges [scientifica] sensually perceived, knowledges both from the Word and from the world, which are what human learning consists of; they deceive by knowledges from the Word by explaining it sensually according to the letter, and not according to its interior sense; they deceive by knowledges from the world by using them for confirmation. It is to be known that sensual men are more crafty and shrewd than others, and thus in acutely deceiving; for as spiritual men possess intelligence and prudence, so those who are sensual and in falsities possess malice and craftiness, for all malice has its seat in evil, as all intelligence has its seat in good.

[2] It is believed in the world that those who are crafty and shrewd are also prudent and intelligent; but craftiness and malice are not prudence and intelligence, but viewed in themselves are insanity and folly; for such remove themselves from eternal happiness and cast themselves into eternal misery, and this is not the part of the prudent and intelligent but of the insane and foolish. Moreover, with such all things of heavenly and angelic wisdom are in dense darkness, and where that wisdom is thick darkness there is folly. That sensual men are crafty and shrewd can be seen from those who are in the hells, where all are merely natural and sensual; it can hardly be believed by anyone how much craftiness and shrewdness these possess (See in the work on Heaven and Hell 576-581, where the malice and wicked devices of the infernal spirits are treated of).

[3] That "stings" signify craftiness can be seen without confirmation from the Word, for in common discourse the craftiness in speech by which men are deceived are called sharp points, and the talk itself is called sharp. But "stings" signify particularly interior falsities, which are such as cannot be dispelled, because they are from the knowledges and fallacies of the senses. That such falsities are signified by "stings" (or sharp points) can be seen from representatives in the spiritual world, where interior falsities are represented in various ways by sharp things, like the points of swords, the points of arrows, and things pointed in various forms, and this when they are intended to hurt; for this reason it is also forbidden there to exhibit such things to view, for spirits when they see them become furious to inflict injury.

[4] These falsities are signified by "sharp instruments" in Amos:

Behold the days will come upon you in which they will draw you out with barbs, and your posterity with fishhooks (Amos 4:2).

"To draw out with barbs" signifies to lead away from truths by knowledges [scientifica] from the Word and from the world falsely applied; and "to draw out with fishhooks" signifies to lead away from truths by the fallacies of the senses, from which the sensual man reasons.

[5] And in Moses:

If ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those whom ye let remain of them shall be thorns in your eyes and pricks in your sides (Numbers 33:55).

The "inhabitants of the land whom they were to drive out," signify the evils and falsities of religion and of doctrine; for these were signified in an abstract sense by the nations of the land of Canaan. Therefore "they shall be thorns in your eyes" signifies the harm that will be done by malignant falsities to the truths of the church, and "pricks in your sides" signify the harm that will be done by malignant falsities to the goods of the church, "eyes" signifying in the Word the understanding of truth, and "sides" the things of charity, consequently goods.

  
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