The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 185
185. Internal Meaning of Hosea, Chapter 2
1-4 Exhortation to abstain from the falsifications of the Word, otherwise there will be no church, but it will be without goods and truths, as before. (11, 2)
5-7 They will become as before when they loved evil and falsity, but they will be withheld. (11, 2)
8 They will return to God whom they worshipped at that time, and from whom they received good, not knowing that this was from the Lord;, (11, 2)
9-13 but because they still did not worship Him, but another god, goods and truths will be vastated. (11, 2)
14-17 Those who will be of the new church, are to be purified by temptations, and prepared, (11)
18-20 and a new church constituted of such will come into existence, which will acknowledge the Lord. (11)
21-23 Then they will receive all things of heaven and the church. (11)
Hosea 2:14-17
14
"Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.
15
I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
16
It will be in that day," says Yahweh, "that you will call me 'my husband,' and no longer call me 'my master.'
17
For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they will no longer be mentioned by name.
