Israel
'The children of Israel,' in Isaiah 14:2, signify the Gentiles.
In Jeremiah 23:8, 'Israel' represents the spiritual natural church.
(参照: Apocalypse Explained 768)
2 Peter 1:5-9
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Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;
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and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience godliness;
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and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.
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For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.