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Осия 13

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1 Когда Ефрем говорил, все трепетали. Он был высок в Израиле; но сделался виновным через Ваала, и погиб.

2 И ныне прибавили они ко греху: сделали для себя литых истуканов изсеребра своего, по понятию своему, – полная работа художников, – и говорят они приносящим жертву людям: „целуйте тельцов!"

3 За то они будут как утренний туман, как роса, скоро исчезающая, как мякина, свеваемая с гумна, и как дым из трубы.

4 Но Я – Господь Бог твой от земли Египетской, – и ты не должен знать другого бога, кроме Меня, и нет спасителя, кроме Меня.

5 Я признал тебя в пустыне, в земле жаждущей.

6 Имея пажити, они были сыты; а когда насыщались, топревозносилось сердце их, и потому они забывали Меня.

7 И Я буду для них как лев, как скимен буду подстерегать при дороге.

8 Буду нападать на них, как лишенная детей медведица, и раздирать вместилище сердца их, и поедать их там, как львица; полевые звери будут терзать их.

9 Погубил ты себя, Израиль, ибо только во Мне опора твоя.

10 Где царь твой теперь? Пусть он спасет тебя во всех городах твоих! Где судьи твои, о которых говорил ты: „дай нам царя и начальников"?

11 И Я дал тебе царя во гневе Моем, и отнял в негодовании Моем.

12 Связано в узел беззаконие Ефрема, сбережен его грех.

13 Муки родильницы постигнут его; он – сын неразумный, иначе не стоял бы долго в положении рождающихся детей.

14 От власти ада Я искуплю их, от смерти избавлю их. Смерть! где твое жало? ад! где твоя победа? Раскаяния в том не будет у Меня.

15 Хотя Ефрем плодовит между братьями, но придет восточный ветер, поднимется ветер Господень из пустыни, и иссохнет родник его, и иссякнет источник его; он опустошит сокровищницу всех драгоценных сосудов.

16 (14:1) Опустошена будет Самария, потому что восстала против Бога своего; от меча падут они; младенцы их будут разбиты, и беременные их будут рассечены.

   

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St Lucy before the Judge, by Lorenzo Lotto

It's easy to see the connection between judging and truth. In a court of law, the whole purpose of the judge is to find the truth. Any time anyone judges anything, we hope it is on the basis of the truth. It's no wonder, then, that judging and judgment in the Bible represent truth being put to work. Depending on the circumstances judging can be teaching truth, determining someone's character from truth or setting order to things according to truth. There is a twist, though -- when the Lord is referred to as a judge, it actually signifies Divine Good, rather than Divine Truth. This is because the Lord judges us ultimately from love, and his truth flows from that love.

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Arcana Coelestia # 7206

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7206. 'And with great judgements' means in accordance with the laws of order that spring from the Lord's Divine Human. This is clear from the meaning of 'judgements' as truths, dealt with in 1235, 6797, and in the highest sense, in which that word is used in reference to the Lord, as Divine truths, truths which are nothing other than the laws of order that spring from the Lord's Divine Human. For He is the origin of all order and so of all the laws of order. Those laws form the structure for the whole of heaven, consequently for the universe also. The laws of order or truths, which emanate from the Lord, forming the structure of the whole of heaven and of the universe, are what are called, in John 1:1-3, the Word by which all things were made; for the Word is Divine Truth emanating from the Divine Good of the Lord's Divine Human. This means that all things in the spiritual world and also in the natural world have a connection with truth, as anyone who stops to reflect may recognize.

[2] In the proximate sense here the expression 'great judgements' is used to mean the truths in accordance with which those people will be judged who have molested others by introducing falsities, the ones meant by 'the Egyptians' and by 'Pharaoh'. The expression is also used to mean the truths in accordance with which those will be judged who will be released from molestations, the ones meant by 'the children of Israel'. By these judgements people steeped in falsities arising from evil are shown to be damned, and by these judgements people guided by truths arising from good are shown to be saved. Not that the truths which emanate from the Lord damn anyone, for all truths emanating from the Lord spring from His Divine Goodness, and so are nothing other than expressions of mercy. Rather, people expose themselves to damnation because they do not accept the Lord's mercy; for then they are governed by evils, and evils are damning. Nor do the truths emanating from the Lord save anyone if he believes that he is saved by virtue of the truths of faith present with him and not by mercy. For a person is full of evils and left to himself is in hell, but by the Lord's mercy he is withheld from evil and maintained in good, and with great force. The fact that both are meant by 'judgements', that is to say, both the damnation of those who are evil and the salvation of those who are good, is evident from those places in the Word where the last judgement is the subject, such as Matthew 25:31-45, and elsewhere.

  
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