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1 Ang Israel ay isang mayabong na baging, na nagbunga: ayon sa karamihan ng kaniyang bunga kaniyang pinarami ang kaniyang mga dambana; ayon sa kabutihan ng kaniyang lupain ay nagsigawa sila ng mga mainam na haligi.

2 Ang kanilang puso ay nahati; ngayo'y mangasusumpungan silang salarin: kaniyang ibabagsak ang kanilang mga dambana, kaniyang sasamsamin ang kanilang mga haligi.

3 Walang pagsalang ngayo'y kanilang sasabihin, Kami ay walang hari; sapagka't kami ay hindi nangatatakot sa Panginoon; at ang hari, ano ang magagawa niya para sa atin?

4 Sila'y nagsasalita ng mga walang kabuluhang salita, na nagsisisumpa ng di totoo sa paggawa ng mga tipan: kaya't ang kahatulan ay lumilitaw na parang ajenjo sa mga bungkal sa parang.

5 Ang mga nananahan sa Samaria ay malalagay sa pangingilabot dahil sa mga guya ng Beth-aven; sapagka't ang bayan niyaon ay mananangis doon, at ang mga saserdote niyaon na nangagagalak doon, dahil sa kaluwalhatian niyaon, sapagka't nawala roon.

6 Dadalhin din naman sa Asiria na pinakakaloob sa haring Jareb: ang Ephraim ay tatanggap ng kahihiyan, at ang Israel ay mapapahiya sa kaniyang sariling payo.

7 Tungkol sa Samaria, ang kaniyang hari ay nahiwalay, na parang bula sa tubig.

8 Ang mataas na dako naman ng Aven, ang kasalanan ng Israel ay masisira: ang mga tinik at ang mga dawag ay sisibol sa kanilang mga dambana; at sasabihin nila sa mga bundok, Takpan ninyo kami; at sa mga burol, Mahulog kayo sa amin.

9 Oh Israel, ikaw ay nagkasala mula sa mga kaarawan ng Gabaa: doon sila nagsitayo; ang pagbabaka laban sa mga anak ng kasamaan ay hindi aabot sa kanila sa Gabaa.

10 Pagka siya kong nasa, ay aking parurusahan sila; at ang mga bayan ay magpipisan laban sa kanila, pagka sila'y nagapos sa kanilang dalawang pagsalangsang.

11 At ang Ephraim ay isang dumalagang baka na tinuturuan, na maibigin sa pagiik ng trigo; nguni't aking pinararaan ang pamatok sa kaniyang magandang leeg: ako'y maglalagay ng isang mananakay sa Ephraim; magaararo ang Juda, dudurugin ng Jacob ang kaniyang mga bugal.

12 Mangaghasik kayo sa inyong sarili sa katuwiran, magsigapas kayo ayon sa kaawaan; bungkalin ninyo ang inyong pinabayaang bukiran; sapagka't panahon na hanapin ang Panginoon, hanggang sa siya'y dumating, at magdala ng katuwiran sa inyo.

13 Kayo'y nangaghasik ng kasamaan, kayo'y nagsiani ng kasalanan; kayo'y nagsikain ng bunga ng kabulaanan; sapagka't ikaw ay tumiwala sa iyong lakad, sa karamihan ng iyong makapangyarihang lalake.

14 Kaya't babangon ang isang kagulo sa iyong mga bayan, at lahat ng iyong mga katibayan ay magigiba, na gaya ni Salman na gumiba sa Beth-arbel sa kaarawan ng pagbabaka: ang ina ay pinaglurayluray na kasama ng kaniyang mga anak.

15 Gayon ang gagawin ng Beth-el sa inyo dahil sa inyong malaking kasamaan: sa pagbubukang liwayway, ang hari ng Israel ay lubos na mahihiwalay.

   

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Apocalypse Revealed # 543

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543. She bore a male Child. (12:5) This symbolizes the doctrine of the New Church.

A son in the Word symbolizes doctrinal truth, and also an understanding of and consequent thought about truth and goodness. A daughter, on the other hand, symbolizes the goodness taught by doctrine, and also a willing of and consequent affection for truth and goodness. A male child, moreover, symbolizes truth conceived in the spiritual self and born in the natural one.

The reason for this is that generations and births in the Word symbolize spiritual generations and births, all of which relate in general to goodness and truth (no. 535). For nothing else is begotten and born of the Lord as husband and of the church as wife.

Now because the woman who bore the child symbolizes the New Church (no. 533), it is apparent that the male child symbolizes that church's doctrine.

The doctrine meant here is The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine (London, 1758), and also The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Lord, The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Sacred Scripture, and The Doctrine of Life for the New Jerusalem in Accordance With the Ten Commandments (Amsterdam, 1763). For doctrine means all the truths of doctrine, since doctrine embraces them all. When I was writing these doctrines, followers of the dragon stood about me and with all their fury endeavored to devour them, that is, to extinguish them.

I am permitted to report this new information, because of a truth it happened as I have said. The followers of the dragon who stood about me came from all over the Protestant Reformed Christian world.

[2] Since these and no other are the offspring born of the spiritual marriage, and male offspring are truth and good in the intellect and consequent thought, while female offspring are truth and good in the will and consequent affection, therefore a son in the Word symbolizes truth. To confirm this we will cite some passages from which it can in some measure be seen:

Behold, sons are a heritage from Jehovah, the fruit of the womb is a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the sons of one's youth. (Psalms 127:3-5)

Make yourself bald and shave yourself, because of your delightful sons..., for they are gone from you. (Micah 1:16)

(I saw two olive trees beside the lampstand,) and he said, "These are the two sons of the olive tree, who stand beside the Lord of the whole earth." (Zechariah 4:11, 14)

My tent is destroyed...; my sons have gone from me, and they are no more. (Jeremiah 10:20)

My sons are made desolate because the enemy prevailed. (Lamentations 1:16)

Your sons, (O Jerusalem,) have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets... (Isaiah 51:17-18, 20)

...fathers shall eat their sons in the midst of you, and sons shall eat their fathers..., and all of you who remain I will scatter to all the winds. (Ezekiel 5:10)

Son will be divided against father, and father against son... (Luke 12:53, cf. Matthew 10:21, Mark 13:12)

You have also taken your beautiful vessels of My gold... and made for yourself male images with which you played the harlot. (Ezekiel 16:17)

(Jesus said,) ...the... seeds are the children of the kingdom, but the tares are the children of evil. (Matthew 13:38)

[3] That the Son of Man is the Divine truth in the Word, thus the Lord, may be seen in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Lord, nos. 19-28.

In the passages cited, sons mean people who possess doctrinal truths drawn from the Word, and abstractly, those truths themselves. So, too, elsewhere, as in Isaiah 13:17-18; 14:21-23; 43:6; 49:17, 22; 51:17-18; 60:9; Deuteronomy 32:8.

That daughters symbolize an affection for the church's truth, thus the church in relation to that affection, follows from so many passages in the Word that if I were to quote them, they would fill many pages. Nothing else is meant by daughter of Zion, daughter of Jerusalem, daughter of Judah, and daughter of Israel. See some passages cited in no. 612[1-4] regarding the daughter of Zion. Who cannot see that no actual daughter of Zion, of Jerusalem, of Judah or of Israel, so often mentioned in the Word, can be meant?

  
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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.