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εν εκεινη τη ημερα λεγει κυριος απολω σοφους εκ της ιδουμαιας και συνεσιν εξ ορους ησαυ
Obadiah 1:8
The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #210
210. Internal Meaning of Obadiah, Chapter 1
Of those who are in self-intelligence and pervert the sense of the letter of the word; these are Edom. (2)
1-3 They must be combated, because they believe themselves to be more intelligent than others. (2)
4-5 They defend falsities by natural light, but they will perish, and with them, the falsities themselves. (2)
8-9 They will perish on the day of judgment, because they have oppressed the church. (15, 3)
10-14 They destroy the church still further, and this is their delight. (3)
15-16 Destruction will come upon them on the day of judgment. (15)
17 A new church will come into existence (11)
18 in place of the former church, which is condemned. (11, 3)
19-21 The new church will be in the understanding of truth, and those that are in it will be saved. (11)
Obadiah 1:10-14
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For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.
11
In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them.
12
But don't look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don't rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don't speak proudly in the day of distress.
13
Don't enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Don't look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity.
14
Don't stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who escape. Don't deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress.
