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来罢，我们归向耶和华！他撕裂我们，也必医治；他打伤我们，也必缠裹。
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过两天他必使我们苏醒，第三天他必使我们兴起，我们就在他面前得以存活。
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我们务要认识耶和华，竭力追求认识他。他出现确如晨光，他必临到我们像甘雨，像滋润田地的春雨。
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主说：以法莲哪，我可向你怎样行呢？犹大啊，我可向你怎样做呢？因为你们的良善如同早晨的云雾，又如速散的甘露。
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因此，我藉先知砍伐他们，以我口中的话杀戮他们；我施行的审判如光发出。
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我喜爱良善（或译：怜恤），不喜爱祭祀；喜爱认识神，胜於燔祭。
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基列是作孽之人的城，被血沾染。
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强盗成群，怎样埋伏杀人，祭司结党，也照样在示剑的路上杀戮，行了邪恶。
145. In the Word too 'name' means the essential nature of a real thing, and 'seeing and calling by name' knowing characters, as in Isaiah,
I will give you the treasures of darkness and the hoarded riches of secret places, that you may know that it is I, Jehovah, the one calling you by name, the God of Israel. For the sake of My servant Jacob, and of Israel My chosen, and I have called you by name, I have surnamed you, but you do not know Me. Isaiah 45:3-4.
Here 'calling by name' and 'surnaming' mean knowing his character beforehand. In the same prophet,
You will be called by a new name which the mouth of Jehovah will declare. Isaiah 62:2.
This stands for his becoming a different person, as is clear from what precedes and what follows these words. In the same prophet,
O Israel, fear not, for I have redeemed you, I have called you by your name, you are Mine. Isaiah 43:1.
This stands for knowing character. Again in the same prophet,
Lift up your eyes on high and see; who created these? He who brings out their host by number; He will call them all by name. Isaiah 40:26.
This stands for His knowing them all. In Revelation,
You have a few names in Sardis, who have not soiled their garments. He who conquers will be clad in white garments and I will not blot his name out of the book of life; and I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels. Revelation 3:4-5.
Elsewhere in the same book,
Whose names have not been written in the book of life of the Lamb. Revelation 13:8.
In these places 'names' is in no way used to mean names but people's characters. Nor in heaven do they know anyone's name, only his character.
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