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Osija 14

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1 Obrati se, Izrailju, ka Gospodu Bogu svom, jer si pao svog radi bezakonja.

2 Uzmite sa sobom reči, i obratite se ka Gospodu; recite Mu: Oprosti sve bezakonje, i primi dobro; i daćemo žrtve usana svojih.

3 Asirac nas ne može izbaviti, nećemo jahati na konjima, niti ćemo više govoriti delu ruku svojih: Bože naš; jer u Tebe nalazi milost sirota.

4 Isceliću otpad njihov, ljubiću ih drage volje; jer će se gnev moj odvratiti od njega.

5 Biću kao rosa Izrailju, procvetaće kao ljiljan i pustiće žile svoje kao drveta livanska.

6 Raširiće se grane njegove, i lepota će mu biti kao u masline i miris kao livanski.

7 Oni će se vratiti i sedeti pod senom njegovim, rađaće kao žito i cvetaće kao vinova loza; spomen će mu biti kao vino livansko.

8 Jefreme, šta će mi više idoli? Ja ću ga uslišiti i gledati; ja ću mu biti kao jela zelena; od mene je tvoj plod.

9 Ko je mudar, neka razume ovo; i razuman neka pozna ovo; jer su pravi putevi Gospodnji, i pravednici će hoditi po njima, a prestupnici će pasti na njima.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 460

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460. Which can neither see nor hear nor walk. This symbolically means, which do not have in them any spiritual or truly rational life.

This is said because idolaters believe that their idols see and hear, for they make them gods. But still this is not what the statement means. Rather it means that falsities in worship do not have in them any spiritual or truly rational life, as to see and hear means, symbolically, to understand and perceive (nos. 7, 25, 87). To walk, moreover, symbolically means to live (no. 167). Thus the three together symbolize a spiritual and truly rational life.

This is the symbolic meaning because idols symbolize falsities in worship, and these have no spiritual or rational life in them.

The statement that idols do not see, hear, or walk would be too obvious to deserve mention here if it did not have in it some symbolic meaning.

Similar statements regarding idols are made elsewhere in the Word, as in the following places:

They do not know or understand; ...their eyes... do not see; their hearts... do not know... Nor do they have any knowledge or intelligence... (Isaiah 44:9, 18-19)

...they do not speak..., they do not walk... (Jeremiah 10:3-10)

They have mouths, but they do not speak; they have eyes, but they do not see. (Psalms 115:5; 135:15-16)

These statements have a similar symbolic meaning, because idols symbolize falsities in worship, and falsities in worship have in them no life that is real.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.

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John 1:14

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14 The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.