186. Internal Meaning of Hosea, Chapter 3

A new church to be established by the Lord. (11)

1-5 They will live for a long time without the truths and goods of the church, but they will become a church from the Lord, when He comes, and will acknowledge Him. (11)

7605. 'And the wheat and the spelt' means the good of the interior natural and its truth. This is clear from the meaning of 'the wheat' as the good of love and charity, dealt with in 3941, and - since it is a superior grain to barley - as the good of the interior natural; and from the meaning of 'the spelt' as the truth of the interior natural that goes with the good meant by 'the wheat'. One may recognize that 'the spelt' means this truth from the consideration that when the Word speaks of good it also speaks of truth. It does so because the heavenly marriage, which is the marriage of goodness and truth, resides in each detail of the Word. Indeed it does so because the union of the Divine itself and the Divine Human within the Lord, to which union the marriage of goodness and truth in heaven corresponds, resides in its highest sense; and that being so, the Lord's Divine itself and His Divine Human are the innermost being of the Word, see 683, 797, 801, 2173, 2516, 2618, 2712, 2803, 3132, 4138 (end), 5502, 6179, 6343. From this it is evident that 'the spelt' means the truth that goes with the good meant by 'the wheat'.