36. Daß eine Dreiheit von Göttern gegen die Heilige Schrift ist, ist bekannt, denn man liest: "[Bin] Ich nicht Jehovah, und kein Gott weiter außer Mir, ein gerechter Gott und Heiland [ist] nicht außer Mir": Jesaja 45:21-22.

"Ich Jehovah dein Gott, und einen Gott außer Mir sollst du nicht anerkennen, und kein Heiland [ist] außer Mir": Hosea 13:4.

"So sprach Jehovah, der König Israels, und dessen Erlöser, Jehovah Zebaoth: Ich bin der Erste und der Letzte, und außer Mir ist kein Gott": Jesaja 44:6.

"Jehovah Zebaoth Sein Name, und dein Erlöser der Heilige Israels, ein Gott der ganzen Erde wird Er heißen": Jesaja 54:5.

"An jenem Tage wird Jehovah König sein über die ganze Erde; an jenem Tage wird Jehovah einer sein, und Sein Name einer": Sacharja 14:9 und so mehrmals anderwärts.

In Numbers 22:41, this signifies worship from the evils of self-love and love of the world. (Apocalypse Explained 1602)

In Jeremiah 32:20, this signifies the worship of evil. (Arcana Coelestia 4581)

In 2 Samuel 6:2, this signifies the outmost of the church, called its natural. (Apocalypse Explained 700[26])

In Numbers 25:3, this signifies adulterations of good. (Apocalypse Explained 6557)

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 730; Hosea 2:13)

715. Since the most ancient people knew and when in self-abasement acknowledged that they were nothing but beasts and wild animals, and that the Lord alone enabled them to be human beings, they not only used to liken whatever resided with themselves to beasts and birds but also called them such. Things of the will they compared to beasts and called them beasts, and those of the understanding they compared to birds and called them birds. They differentiated however between good affections and evil affections. Good affections they compared to lambs, sheep, kids, he-goats, young she-goats, rams, young bulls, and oxen, because they were good and gentle creatures, and also because they had a use in life in that they could be eaten and men could clothe themselves with their skins and wool. These are chiefly the clean beasts. But the evil and savage ones, which also have no use in life, are unclean beasts.