The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 196
196. Internal Meaning of Hosea, Chapter 13
1-3 From their self-intelligence they have perverted all Divine worship, and hence will perish, (2)
4 yet the Lord alone is God. (16)
5-6 When they became rich in knowledges [cognitiones] from the Word, they forsook the Lord by reason of their self-glorification. (2)
7-9 Hence their destruction, (3)
10-11 because there is no longer any truth of the church. (3)
12-13 The truth of the church has been interiorly destroyed. (3, 17)
14-15 They are to be kept from destruction, until all truth of the church has been destroyed. (2)
Hosea 13:1-3
1
When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, but when he became guilty in Baal, he died.
2
Now they sin more and more, and have made themselves molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, 'They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves.'
3
Therefore they will be like the morning mist, and like the dew that passes away early, like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and like the smoke out of the chimney.
