The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #204
204. Internal Meaning of Amos, Chapter 4
1-3 Those who pervert the doctrine of the church: they will also fall into falsities in outermost things. (2)
4-6 They worship in externals according to the statutes, which will be similar [to genuine worship], but only in outermost things. (2)
7-8 Some things true will remain, when the rest are false, in consequence of which truths will have no power. (2)
9 Afterward all things of the church are falsified, (3, 11)
10-11 and finally they are profaned by sensual knowledges [scientifica], the profanation extending to all things of the church, so that there is hardly anything left. (3)
Amos 4:12-13
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"Therefore thus will I do to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel.
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For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the Earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name."
