The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 195
195. Internal Meaning of Hosea, Chapter 12
1 Falsities grow by reasonings originating in the delights of the natural man. (2, 3)
2-5 The Lord strove with the posterity of Jacob from their infancy. (2)
6-7 Exhortation to be converted and not falsify truths. (2, 2)
8-14 The church gloried in its possession of the Word, and on account of their representative worship, and they were continually guarded by the Lord; and yet they falsified and adulterated the Word and the worship. (2)
Hosea 12:2-5
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Yahweh also has a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his deeds he will repay him.
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In the womb he took his brother by the heel; and in his manhood he contended with God.
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Indeed, he struggled with the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us,
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even Yahweh, the God of Armies; Yahweh is his name of renown!
