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1 A palavra do Senhor, que veio a Oséias, filho de Beeri, nos dias de Uzias, Jotão, Acaz e Ezequias, reis de Judá, e nos dias de Jeroboão, filho de Joás, rei de Israel.

2 Quando o Senhor falou no princípio por Oséias, disse o Senhor a Oséias: Vai, toma por esposa uma mulher de prostituições, e filhos de prostituição; porque a terra se prostituiu, apartando-se do Senhor.

3 Ele se foi, pois, e tomou a Gomer, filha de Diblaim; e ela concebeu, e lhe deu um filho.

4 E disse-lhe o Senhor: Põe-lhe o nome de Jizreel; porque daqui a pouco visitarei o sangue de Jizreel sobre a casa de Jeú, e farei cessar o reino da casa de Israel.

5 E naquele dia quebrarei o arco de Israel no vale de Jizreel.

6 E tornou ela a conceber, e deu à luz uma filha. E o Senhor disse a Oséias: Põe-lhe o nome de Lo-Ruama; porque não tornarei mais a compadecer-me da casa de Israel, nem a perdoar-lhe de maneira alguma.

7 Mas da casa se Judá me compadecerei, e os salvarei pelo Senhor seu Deus, pois não os salvarei pelo arco, nem pela espada, nem pela guerra, nem pelos cavalos, nem pelos cavaleiros.

8 Ora depois de haver desmamado a Lo-Ruama, concebeu e deu à luz um filho.

9 E o Senhor disse: Põe-lhe o nome de Lo-Ami; porque vós não sois meu povo, nem sou eu vosso Deus.

10 Todavia o número dos filhos de Israel será como a areia do mar, que não pode ser medida nem contada; e no lugar onde se lhes dizia: Vós não sois meu povo, se lhes dirá: Vós sois os filhos do Deus vivo.

11 E os filhos de Judá e os filhos de Israel juntos se congregarão, e constituirão sobre si uma só cabeça, e subirão da terra; pois grande será o dia de Jizreel.

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"Samson Captured by the Philistines" by Guercino

War in the Word represents the combat of temptation when good loves are assaulted by evil loves or false ideas. The evil that attacks comes from one of the many societies of hell, and it operates by arousing a selfish love in our mind that is contrary to what we know is right. Then our selfish love attacks the love that nourishes the wish to be a good person, and there is war in our minds. This is represented by wars that the children of Israel fought in and around the land of Canaan, of which there is a long history in the old testament. The selfish loves abound in our minds from our heredity, and the good loves come along with our conscience as it develops. If we had no conscience we couldn't be tempted; we would immediately follow the wishes of our selfishness and give in. But then the end result is that we are in slavery to the hells and will do whatever they want.

(Verweise: Arcana Coelestia 1659 [3], 1664, 1683, 1788 [2])

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1659. THE INTERNAL SENSE

The details contained in this chapter appear as if they were not representative, for the subject is merely the wars between a number of kings, and Lot's reclamation by Abram, and, towards the end, Melchizedek; so that these details do not seem to possess a single heavenly arcanum within them. Yet like all such details, these conceal very deep arcana in the internal sense which follow in a continuous sequence from the things preceding them, and also link themselves in a similar sequence to those that follow.

[2] The descriptions which precede have dealt with the Lord and the instruction He received, and also with His External Man which was to be joined to the internal by means of knowledge and cognitions. But because His external Man was such, as has been stated, that from what was inherited from the mother it had within it things which prevented their becoming joined together, things which had first to be cast out by means of conflicts and temptations before His external Man could be united to the Internal - that is, His Human Essence to the Divine Essence - this chapter therefore deals with those conflicts themselves. The latter in the internal sense are represented and meant by the wars which it describes. Within the Church it is well known that Melchizedek represented the Lord, and that the Lord is thus meant in the internal sense when Melchizedek is spoken of. From this one may also conclude that not only such details regarding Melchizedek but all others are indeed representative, for not one small word can have been written in the Word that has not been sent down from heaven and consequently in which angels do not see heavenly things.

[3] In most ancient times furthermore many things were represented by wars, which people called 'The Wars of Jehovah'. The latter meant nothing other than the conflicts fought by the Church and by those who belonged to the Church, that is, their temptations, which are nothing else than battles and wars against the evils present within themselves and so against the devil's crew who activate evils and endeavour to destroy the Church and the member of the Church. That wars in the Word have no other meaning becomes quite clear from the fact that the Word cannot have as its subject anything other than the Lord, His kingdom, and the Church, since it is Divine, not human, and consequently heavenly, not worldly. This being so the wars described in the sense of the letter cannot have any other meaning in the internal sense. This may become clearer still from what follows.

  
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