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Осия 12

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1 Ефрем пасет ветер и гоняется за восточным ветром, каждый день умножает ложь и разорение; заключают они союз с Ассуром, и в Египет отвозится елей.

2 Но и с Иудою у Господа суд и Он посетит Иакова по путям его, воздаст ему по делам его.

3 Еще во чреве матери запинал он брата своего, а возмужав боролся с Богом.

4 Он боролся с Ангелом – и превозмог; плакал и умолял Его; в Вефиле Он нашел нас и там говорил с нами.

5 А Господь есть Бог Саваоф; Сущий(Иегова) – имя Его.

6 Обратись и ты к Богу твоему; наблюдай милость и суд и уповай на Бога твоего всегда.

7 Хананеянин с неверными весами в руке любит обижать;

8 и Ефрем говорит: „однако я разбогател; накопил себе имущества, хотя вовсех моих трудах не найдут ничего незаконного, что было бы грехом".

9 А Я, Господь Бог твой от самой земли Египетской, опять поселю тебя в кущах, как во дни праздника.

10 Я говорил к пророкам, и умножал видения, и чрез пророков употреблял притчи.

11 Если Галаад сделался Авеном, то они стали суетны, в Галгалах заколали в жертву тельцов, и жертвенники их стояли как груды камней на межах поля.

12 Убежал Иаков на поля Сирийские, и служил Израиль за жену, и за жену стерег овец .

13 Чрез пророка вывел Господь Израиля из Египта, и чрез пророка Он охранял его.

14 Сильно раздражил Ефрем Господа и за то кровь его оставит на нем, и поношение его обратит Господь на него.

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 7678

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7678. 'And Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt' means exercising the power of God's truth over the entire natural of the molesting ones. This is clear from the meaning of 'stretching out the rod' as an exercising of power, dealt with above in 7673; from the representation of 'Moses' as God's truth, dealt with in 6752, 7010, 7014, 7382; and from the meaning of 'the land of Egypt' as the natural of those who molest, dealt with above in 7674. The Divine power which is described by 'the hand of Moses' is the power of God's truth. All power belongs to truth, see 3091, 5623, 6344, 6423, 6948; indeed the power that Divine Truth going forth from Divine Goodness possesses is such that it has created all things throughout the universe. That Truth is meant by 'the Word' in John,

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. All things were made through Him. John 1:1, 3.

This explains why miracles were performed through Moses, for 'Moses' represents Divine Truth. Most people think that the Word or Divine Truth is merely what Jehovah has spoken and what He commands so to be done - this and nothing more. But in fact it is the Essential Being itself (Ipsum Essentiale), the source from which all things exist and the means by which they are kept in existence. That Essential Being (Esse) which emanates from Him and, arising from it, the Coming-into-Being (Existere) of all things is what is meant by Divine Truth. Some light on all this can be gained by considering the angels. From them emanates a sphere of charity and faith which is clearly perceptible and which also produces wondrous effects. From these one may form some idea of Divine Truth which emanates from the Lord's Divine Goodness.

  
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Meeting of three kings in Potsdam and Charlottenburg, 1709, by Samuel Theodor Gericke

In Genesis 14:1, kings signify apparent goods and truths having the upper hand. In the next verse, they stand for the dominant evils and falsities against which the Lord fought as he passed He grew up on Earth.

In Genesis 14:3, we see that these evils and falsities were unclean; and in Genesis 14:4, that they burst forth later. (Arcana Coelestia 1661-1664).

In Genesis 14:14-15, this signifies that the Lord gained victory over them the evils represented earlier in the chapter. (Arcana Coelestia 1711-1715)

In Isaiah 33:17, a king signifies seeing genuine truth. (Apocalypse Explained 304[31])

In Revelation 9:11, a king signifies one who is in truth from an affection for what is good, and abstractly that truth itself -- here, in the opposite sense. (Apocalypse Revealed 440)