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何西阿書 11

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1 以色列年幼的時候,我他,就從埃及召出我的兒子來。

2 先知越發招呼他們,他們越發走開,向諸巴力獻祭,給雕刻的偶像燒香。

3 我原教導以法蓮行走,用膀抱著他們,他們卻不知道是我醫治他們。

4 我用慈(慈:原文是人的)愛索牽引他們;我待他們如人放鬆牛的兩腮夾板,把糧食放在他們面前。

5 他們必不歸回埃及,亞述人卻要作他們的王,因他們不肯歸向我。

6 必臨到他們的城邑,毀壞門閂,把人吞滅,都因他們隨從自己的計謀。

7 我的民偏要背道離開我;眾先知雖然招呼他們歸向至上的主,卻無人尊崇主。

8 以法蓮哪,我怎能捨棄你?以色列啊,我怎能棄絕你?我怎能使你如押瑪?怎能使你如洗扁?我回意,我的憐愛大大發動。

9 我必不發猛烈的怒氣,也不再毀滅以法蓮。因我是神,並非世,是你們中間的聖者;我必不在怒中臨到你們。

10 耶和華必如獅子吼叫,子民必跟隨他。他一吼叫,他們就從西方急速而來。

11 他們必如雀埃及急速而來,又如鴿子從亞述來到。我必使他們自己的房屋。這是耶和華的。

12 以法蓮用謊話,以色列家用詭計圍繞我;猶大卻靠神掌權,向聖者有忠心(或譯:猶大向神,向誠實的聖者猶疑不定)。

   

From Swedenborg's Works

 

Apocalypse Revealed #240

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240. Full of eyes in front and in back. This symbolizes the Divine wisdom in the Word.

When eyes are mentioned in application to people, they symbolize the intellect, but when they are mentioned in application to the Lord, they symbolize Divine wisdom (nos. 48, 125). So likewise in application to the Word, as in the present instance, because the Word comes from the Lord, and is about the Lord, and so embodies the Lord.

The same statement is made in reference to the cherubim in Ezekiel, that they were "full of eyes" (Ezekiel 10:12).

"In front and in back," when said of the Word given by the Lord, symbolizes the Divine wisdom and love present in it.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.

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Jeremiah 5:6

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6 Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, [and] their backsliding is increased.