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1 Tiele diras la Eternulo:Pro tri krimoj de Moab kaj pro kvar Mi ne indulgos lin, pro tio, ke li forbruligis la ostojn de la regxo de Edom gxis cindreco.

2 Mi sendos fajron sur Moabon, kaj gxi ekstermos la palacojn de Keriot; kaj Moab mortos en tumulto, cxe bruo kaj sonado de trumpeto.

3 Mi ekstermos jugxiston el meze de li, kaj cxiujn liajn eminentulojn Mi mortigos kune kun li, diras la Eternulo.

4 Tiele diras la Eternulo:Pro tri krimoj de Jehuda kaj pro kvar Mi ne indulgos lin, pro tio, ke ili forpusxis la instruon de la Eternulo, ne observis Liajn legxojn, kaj permesis sin delogigxi per la mensogajxoj, kiujn sekvis iliaj patroj.

5 Mi sendos fajron sur Judujon, kaj gxi ekstermos la palacojn de Jerusalem.

6 Tiele diras la Eternulo:Pro tri krimoj de Izrael kaj pro kvar Mi ne indulgos lin, pro tio, ke ili vendas virtulon pro argxento kaj malricxulon pro paro da sxuoj.

7 Ili premas la kapon de senhavuloj en la polvon de la tero, ili baras la vojon de humiluloj; filo kaj patro iras al unu knabino, por malhonori Mian sanktan nomon.

8 Sur garantidonitaj vestoj ili kusxas apud cxiu altaro, kaj vinon de punitoj ili trinkas en la domo de sia dio.

9 Kaj Mi ekstermis antaux ili la Amoridon, kiu estis alta kiel cedro kaj forta kiel kverko; Mi ekstermis liajn fruktojn supre kaj liajn radikojn malsupre.

10 Mi elkondukis vin el la lando Egipta kaj kondukis vin en la dezerto dum kvardek jaroj, por ke vi ekposedu la landon de la Amorido.

11 El viaj filoj Mi faris profetojn kaj el viaj junuloj konsekritojn; cxu ne estas tiel, ho filoj de Izrael? diras la Eternulo.

12 Sed vi trinkigis al la konsekritoj vinon, kaj al la profetoj vi ordonis:Ne profetu.

13 Jen Mi krakigos sub vi, kiel krakas veturilo, plenigita de garboj.

14 Ecx lertulo ne povos forkuri, fortulo ne povos ion fari per sia forto, kaj heroo ne povos savi sian vivon;

15 la arkpafistoj ne povos kontrauxstari, rapidpiedulo ne savigxos, kaj rajdanto ne savos sian vivon;

16 kaj la plej kuragxa el la herooj forkuros nuda en tiu tago, diras la Eternulo.

   

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Arcana Coelestia #10050

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10050. 'And its legs' means purification of the more external things belonging to the natural man. This is clear from the meaning of 'washing the legs' as purification of the natural man (for the meaning of 'washing' as purifying, see immediately above in 10049); and from the meaning of 'the legs' as the more external things belonging to the natural man. The reason why these things are meant by 'the legs' is that one must at the same time understand the feet, since an animal's four legs are closely connected to its feet, and 'the feet' by virtue of their correspondence mean the natural or external level in a person, see 2162, 3147, 3761, 4938-4952.

[2] Much the same is meant by 'the legs' in Amos,

As the shepherd rescues from the mouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so will the children of Israel dwelling in Samaria be rescued, on the corner of a bed and on the end of a couch. Amos 3:12.

'The lion' here means those who lay the Church waste, 'legs' the external part of it, which is also the external part of the natural man, 'a piece of an ear' its discernment, and those 'dwelling in Samaria' those whose worship is external. 'The corner of a bed and the end of a couch' is the lowest part of the natural, which is external sensory awareness and its truth and good.

[3] In Daniel's description of Nebuchadnezzar's statue - its head made of pure gold, breast and arms of silver, belly and side of bronze, legs of iron, and feet partly of iron and partly of clay, Daniel 2:32-33 - what is meant by 'the legs' is the truth of faith in the external or natural man; and the same thing is also meant by 'iron', see 10030. The reason why the legs in the description are distinguished from the feet is that human legs are by nature different from animal legs.

  
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Arcana Coelestia #3761

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3761. 'Jacob lifted up his feet' means a raising up of the natural. This is clear from the meaning of 'lifting up' as a raising up, and from the meaning of 'the feet' as the natural, dealt with below. The raising up meant here is the subject of the chapter itself, namely a raising up from external truth towards internal good. In the highest sense the subject is how the Lord according to order raised His Natural even up to the Divine, rising up step by step from external truth towards internal good. In the representative sense it is how the Lord according to a similar order makes man's natural new when regenerating him. The fact that a person who is being regenerated in adult life progresses according to the order described in the internal sense of this chapter and of those that follow is known to few. This fact is known to few because few stop to reflect on the matter and also because few at the present day are able to be regenerated; for the last days of the Church have arrived when no charity exists any longer, nor consequently any faith. This being so, people do not even know what faith is, even though the assertion 'men is saved by faith' is on everyone's lips; and not knowing this they therefore have even less knowledge of what charity is. And since they know no more than the terms faith and charity and have no knowledge of what these are essentially, it has therefore been stated that few are able to reflect on the order in accordance with which a person is made new or regenerated, and also that few are able to be regenerated.

[2] Because the subject here is the natural, and the latter is represented by 'Jacob', it is not said that he rose up and went to the land of the sons of the east but that 'he lifted up his feet'. Both these expressions mean a raising up. As regards 'rising up' having this meaning, see 2401, 2785, 2912, 2927, 3171; and as regards the expression 'lifting up the feet' which occurs here, this is used in reference to the natural - 'the feet' meaning the natural, see 2162, 3147. 'The feet' means the natural or natural things because of their correspondence with the Grand Man - currently the subject at the ends of chapters. In the Grand Man those belonging to the province of the feet are those who dwell in natural light and little spiritual light. This also is why the parts beneath the foot - the sole and the heel - mean the lowest natural things, see 259, and why 'a shoe', which is also mentioned several times in the Word, means the bodily-natural, which is the lowest part of all, 1748.

  
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