196. Internal Meaning of Hosea, Chapter 13

1-3 From their self-intelligence they have perverted all Divine worship, and hence will perish, (2)

4 yet the Lord alone is God. (16)

5-6 When they became rich in knowledges [cognitiones] from the Word, they forsook the Lord by reason of their self-glorification. (2)

7-9 Hence their destruction, (3)

10-11 because there is no longer any truth of the church. (3)

12-13 The truth of the church has been interiorly destroyed. (3, 17)

14-15 They are to be kept from destruction, until all truth of the church has been destroyed. (2)

16 Those who have worshipped another god will perish. (4)

The floor, as in Matthew 3:12, signifies the world of spirits which is between heaven and hell, and where the separation of evils and falsities from goods and truths takes place.

In Hosea 9:2, this signifies the Word as to the good of charity; and a wine-press, as to the good of love.

(Riferimenti: Apocalypse Explained 374)