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Osija 5

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1 Čujte, sveštenici, i pazi, dome Izrailjev, i slušaj, dome carev, jer je vama sud, jer ste zamka u Mispi i mreža razapeta na Tavoru.

2 Iz potaje klaše one koji zalaze; ali ću ih ja pokarati sve.

3 Ja poznajem Jefrema i Izrailj nije sakriven od mene; jer se sada kurvaš, Jefreme, Izrailj se oskvrni.

4 Ne upravljaju dela svojih da se vrate k Bogu svom; jer je duh kurvarski u njima i ne znaju Gospoda.

5 I ponositost Izrailjeva svedoči mu u oči; zato će Izrailj i Jefrem pasti za bezakonje svoje, pašće i Juda s njima.

6 Ići će s ovcama svojim i s govedima svojim da traže Gospoda, ali Ga neće naći; uklonio se je od njih.

7 Izneveriše Gospoda, jer izrodiše tuđe sinove; zato će ih proždreti mesec dana s dostojanjem njihovim.

8 Trubite u rog u Gavaji, u trubu u Rami; vičite u Vet-avenu: za tobom, Venijamine!

9 Jefrem će opusteti u dan kara; objavih među plemenima Izrailjevim šta će zacelo biti.

10 Knezovi su Judini kao oni koji premeštaju među; izliću na njih kao vodu jarost svoju.

11 Jefremu se čini nasilje, satrven je sudom, jer od svoje volje otide za zapovešću.

12 Zato ću ja biti Jefremu kao moljac i kao crv domu Judinom.

13 I Jefrem vide bolest svoju i Juda svoju ranu, i otide Jefrem k Asircu, i Juda posla k caru koji bi ga branio; ali vas on ne može isceliti niti će vas oprostiti rane vaše.

14 Jer ću ja biti kao lav Jefremu, kao lavićdomu Judinom; ja, ja ću zgrabiti, i otići ću, odneću i niko neće izbaviti.

15 Otići ću i vratiću se na svoje mesto dokle ne priznaju svoju krivicu i potraže lice moje; kad budu u nevolji tražiće me.

   

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Eat

  
"A Peasant Family at Lunch" by Albert Neuhuys

When we eat, our bodies break down the food and get from it both energy and materials for building and repairing the body. The process is similar on a symbolic level in the Bible. Food represents the desire for good and the insight that comes from that desire for good – goodness and understanding that come from the Lord. But to put them to use we have to take them in and make them our own – which is spiritual eating.

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Apocalypse Revealed # 89

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89. "'I will give to eat from the tree of life.'" This symbolizes an assimilation of the goodness of love and charity from the Lord.

In the Word, to eat means, symbolically, to assimilate, and the tree of life symbolizes the Lord in respect to the goodness of love. Thus eating of the tree of life symbolizes an assimilation of the goodness of love from the Lord.

To eat means, symbolically, to assimilate because as natural food, when eaten, is assimilated into the life of a person's body, so spiritual food, when received, is assimilated into the life of his soul.

The tree of life symbolizes the Lord in respect to the goodness of love because that is what the tree of life symbolizes in the Garden of Eden, and because a person has celestial and spiritual life from the goodness of love and charity that he receives from the Lord.

Many passages make mention of a tree, and it means a person of the church, and in the broadest sense the church itself, its fruit meaning goodness of life. The reason is that the Lord is the tree of life, the source of every good in the church and in a person of the church. But more on this subject in its proper place.

We say the goodness of love and charity, because the goodness of love is celestial good, which is an expression of love toward the Lord, and the goodness of charity is spiritual good, which is an expression of love for the neighbor. The nature and character of each good will be told in discussions to follow. Something about them may be seen in the book Heaven and Hell, nos. 13-19.

  
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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.