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And he hath brought thee near to him, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also?
Numbers 16:10
Doctrine of the Lord # 49
49. Spirit means the life of a regenerate person, the life called spiritual life:
Jesus (said), “...unless one is born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. (John 3:5)
I will give you a new heart and...a new spirit.... I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes.... (Ezekiel 36:26-27)
(On giving a new) heart and...a new spirit.... (Ezekiel 11:19)
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.... Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and let a willing spirit uphold me. (Psalms 51:10-12)
...make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, O house of Israel? (Ezekel 18:31)
You send forth Your Spirit, they are created; and You renew the face of the earth. (Psalms 104:30)
...the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. (John 4:23)
(Jehovah God) gives breath to the people..., and spirit to those who walk on [the earth]. (Isaiah 42:5)
(Jehovah) forms the spirit of man within him. (Zechariah 12:1)
With my soul I have awaited You in the night..., with my spirit within me I have awaited You in the morning. (Isaiah 26:9)
In that day Jehovah...will be for a spirit of judgment to him who sits in judgment.... (Isaiah 28:5-6)
My spirit has rejoiced over God my Savior. (Luke 1:47)
...they have given my spirit rest in the north country. (Zechariah 6:8)
Into Your hand I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me.... (Psalms 31:5)
Did He not make them one, and the rest who had spirit [i.e., breath ]? (Malachi 2:15)
After three and a half days the spirit of life [i.e., the breath of life ] from God entered (the two witnesses slain by the beast). (Revelation 11:11)
(I, Jehovah,) the former of mountains, and the creator of spirit [i.e., the wind ].... (Amos 4:13)
O God, the God of the spirits as regards all flesh.... (Numbers 16:22, cf. 27:16)
I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitant of Jerusalem a spirit (from on high).... (Zechariah 12:10)
...until He has poured out upon us a spirit from on high.... (Isaiah 32:15)
...I will pour out water on the thirsty, and streams on dry ground; I will pour out My Spirit on your posterity.... (Isaiah 44:3)
...I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh.... Also on My menservants and maidservants in those days I will pour out My Spirit. (Joel 2:28-29)
To pour out the spirit means to regenerate. The same is meant by giving a new heart and a new spirit.
[2] Spirit means the spiritual life in people who are in a state of humility:
I dwell in...a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite. (Isaiah 57:15)
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart God does not spurn. (Psalms 51:17)
(He will) give them...the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a cloak of praise instead of a shrunken spirit. (Isaiah 61:3)
...a woman forsaken and afflicted in spirit.... (Isaiah 54:6)
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 5:3)
Published by the General Church of the New Jerusalem, 1100 Cathedral Road, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania 19009, U.S.A. A translation of Doctrina Novae Hierosolymae de Domino, by Emanuel Swedenborg, 1688-1772. Translated from the Original Latin by N. Bruce Rogers. ISBN 9780945003687, Library of Congress Control Number: 2013954074.
Amos 4
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Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, "Bring us drinks!"
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The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness that behold, "The days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, and the last of you with fish hooks.
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You will go out at the breaks in the wall, everyone straight before her; and you will cast yourselves into Harmon," says Yahweh.
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"Go to Bethel, and sin; to Gilgal, and sin more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days,
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offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim free will offerings and brag about them: for this pleases you, you children of Israel," says the Lord Yahweh.
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"I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh.
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"I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. one place was rained on, and the piece where it didn't rain withered.
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So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh.
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"I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards; and your fig trees and your olive trees have the swarming locust devoured: yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh.
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"I sent plagues among you like I did Egypt. I have slain your young men with the sword, and have carried away your horses; and I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh.
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"I have overthrown some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire; yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh.
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"Therefore thus will I do to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel.
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For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the Earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name."
