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Kad Jefrem govoraše, beše strah; beše se uzvisio u Izrailju; ali se ogreši o Vala, te umre.
Osija 13:1
Apocalypse Revealed # 572
572. 13:2 Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard. This symbolizes their heresy destructive of the church, being founded on the Word's truths falsified.
Animals in general symbolize people in respect to their affections (no. 567), and a leopard symbolizes an affection or penchant for falsifying the Word's truths. Moreover, because it is a fierce beast and slaughters harmless animals, it also symbolizes a heresy destructive of the church.
A leopard symbolizes the Word's truths falsified because of its black and white spots, its black spots symbolizing falsities, and the whiteness between them symbolizing truth. Consequently, because it is a fierce and savage beast, it symbolizes the Word's truths falsified and so destroyed.
A leopard has a similar symbolism in the following places:
Shall an Ethiopian change his skin or a leopard its spots? Then you also can do good who have been taught to do evil. (Jeremiah 13:23)
...a lion from the forest slew (the great men), a wolf in the fields shall devastate them; a leopard is watching their cities. Everyone who goes out... shall be torn in pieces, because... their apostasies have become mighty. (Jeremiah 5:6)
A leopard lying watching their cities is to ambush doctrinal truths - a city being doctrine (no. 194).
(Because) they forgot Me... I have become to them like a lion, and like a leopard by the path I will watch them. (Hosea 13:5-7)
A path, too, symbolizes truth (no. 176).
The wolf shall tarry with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat... (Isaiah 11:6)
The subject there is the Lord's kingdom to come. The young goat is genuine truth in the church, and the leopard is that truth falsified.
(The third beast that came up from the sea) was like a leopard, which had on its back four wings... (Daniel 7:6)
On the four beasts seen by Daniel, see no. 574.
Osija 11
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Kad Izrailj beše dete, ljubih ga, i iz Misira dozvah sina svog.
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Koliko ih zvaše, toliko oni odlaziše od njih; prinosiše žrtve Valima, kadiše likovima.
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Ja učih Jefrema hoditi držeći ga za ruke, ali ne poznaše da sam ih ja lečio.
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Vukoh ih uzicama čovečijim, užima ljubavnim; i bih im kao oni koji im skidaju jaram s čeljusti, i davah im hranu.
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Neće se vratiti u zemlju misirsku, nego će mu Asirac biti car, jer se ne hteše obratiti.
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I mač će stajati u gradovima njegovim, i potrće prevornice njegove i proždreti za namere njihove.
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Narod je moj prionuo za otpad od mene; zovu ga ka Višnjem, ali se nijedan ne podiže.
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Kako da te dam, Jefreme? Da te predam, Izrailju? Kako da učinim od tebe kao od Adame? Da te obratim da budeš kao Sevojim? Ustreptalo je srce moje u meni, uskolebala se utroba moja od žalosti.
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Neću izvršiti ljutog gneva svog, neću opet zatrti Jefrema; jer sam ja Bog a ne čovek, Svetac usred tebe; neću doći na grad.
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Ići će oni za Gospodom; On će rikati kao lav; kad rikne, sa strahom će dotrčati sinovi s mora;
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Sa strahom će dotrčati iz Misira kao ptica, i kao golub iz zemlje asirske; i naseliću ih u kućama njihovim, govori Gospod.
