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Amos 2

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1 Tiele diras la Eternulo:Pro tri krimoj de Moab kaj pro kvar Mi ne indulgos lin, pro tio, ke li forbruligis la ostojn de la regxo de Edom gxis cindreco.

2 Mi sendos fajron sur Moabon, kaj gxi ekstermos la palacojn de Keriot; kaj Moab mortos en tumulto, cxe bruo kaj sonado de trumpeto.

3 Mi ekstermos jugxiston el meze de li, kaj cxiujn liajn eminentulojn Mi mortigos kune kun li, diras la Eternulo.

4 Tiele diras la Eternulo:Pro tri krimoj de Jehuda kaj pro kvar Mi ne indulgos lin, pro tio, ke ili forpusxis la instruon de la Eternulo, ne observis Liajn legxojn, kaj permesis sin delogigxi per la mensogajxoj, kiujn sekvis iliaj patroj.

5 Mi sendos fajron sur Judujon, kaj gxi ekstermos la palacojn de Jerusalem.

6 Tiele diras la Eternulo:Pro tri krimoj de Izrael kaj pro kvar Mi ne indulgos lin, pro tio, ke ili vendas virtulon pro argxento kaj malricxulon pro paro da sxuoj.

7 Ili premas la kapon de senhavuloj en la polvon de la tero, ili baras la vojon de humiluloj; filo kaj patro iras al unu knabino, por malhonori Mian sanktan nomon.

8 Sur garantidonitaj vestoj ili kusxas apud cxiu altaro, kaj vinon de punitoj ili trinkas en la domo de sia dio.

9 Kaj Mi ekstermis antaux ili la Amoridon, kiu estis alta kiel cedro kaj forta kiel kverko; Mi ekstermis liajn fruktojn supre kaj liajn radikojn malsupre.

10 Mi elkondukis vin el la lando Egipta kaj kondukis vin en la dezerto dum kvardek jaroj, por ke vi ekposedu la landon de la Amorido.

11 El viaj filoj Mi faris profetojn kaj el viaj junuloj konsekritojn; cxu ne estas tiel, ho filoj de Izrael? diras la Eternulo.

12 Sed vi trinkigis al la konsekritoj vinon, kaj al la profetoj vi ordonis:Ne profetu.

13 Jen Mi krakigos sub vi, kiel krakas veturilo, plenigita de garboj.

14 Ecx lertulo ne povos forkuri, fortulo ne povos ion fari per sia forto, kaj heroo ne povos savi sian vivon;

15 la arkpafistoj ne povos kontrauxstari, rapidpiedulo ne savigxos, kaj rajdanto ne savos sian vivon;

16 kaj la plej kuragxa el la herooj forkuros nuda en tiu tago, diras la Eternulo.

   

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Apocalypse Explained #354

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354. Come and see. That this signifies attention and perception, is clear from the signification of coming when anything is made visible, as denoting to attend; for by coming, in the spiritual sense, is meant to draw near with the sight, thus to attend; all attention also is from the presence of the sight in the object; and from the signification of beholding, as denoting perception, for by seeing in the Word is signified to understand (as may be seen above, n. 11, 260); here to perceive, because out of the inmost heaven; for what comes out of the inmost heaven, is perceived; but what comes out of the middle heaven, is understood. The reason is, that the inmost heaven is in the good of love, but the middle heaven is in the truths therefrom, and all perception is from good, and all understanding from truths. (Concerning this fact see above, n. 307; what perception is may be seen in the Doctrine of the New Jerusalem 140.)

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.

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Arcana Coelestia #2333

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2333. 'And in the morning you may rise up and go your way' means being strengthened in this way in good and truth. This becomes clear from the meaning of 'rising up in the morning', and also from the meaning of 'going on one's way'. In the Word 'the morning' means the Lord's kingdom and whatever belongs to the Lord's kingdom, and so primarily the good that flows from love and charity. This will be confirmed from the Word at verse 15. 'Way' however means truth, see 627. From this it follows that after they had been in his house and spent the night there, which meant that they dwelt in the good of charity with him, 'they rose up in the morning and went their way', which means that in this way they were confirmed in good and truth.

[2] These phrases, as do all the rest, show how far removed the internal sense is from the sense of the letter and therefore how hidden from view it is, especially in the historical parts of the Word. They show that this sense is not discernible unless individual expressions are explained according to the meaning they have all through the Word. Consequently when ideas are confined to the sense of the letter, the internal sense is seen as something altogether dark and obscure. Conversely when ideas are confined to the internal sense, the sense of the letter in a similar way is seen as something obscure. Indeed angels see it as nothing, for angels no longer have worldly and bodily ideas as man does, but spiritual and celestial ones, into which the expressions of the sense of the letter are marvellously converted when the Word which man is reading rises up to the sphere in which angels dwell, that is, up to heaven. This happens because of the correspondence of spiritual things with worldly, and of celestial with bodily, a correspondence which is absolutely consistent but whose nature has not been disclosed until now in the explanation of expressions, names, and numbers in the Word as to their internal sense.

[3] So that the nature of that correspondence may be known, or what amounts to the same, how worldly and bodily ideas pass over into corresponding spiritual and celestial ideas when they are raised towards heaven, let 'the morning' and 'way' be taken as examples: When a person reads of 'the morning', as in the phrase here 'rising up in the morning', angels do not conceive the idea of the start to a new day but the idea which 'morning' has in the spiritual sense. The idea they conceive is similar to the statement in Samuel,

The Rock of Israel . . . He is like morning light, when the sun rises on a cloudless morning. 2 Samuel 23:3-4.

And in Daniel,

The Holy One said to me, Up to the evening when it is becoming morning, two thousand three hundred times. Daniel 8:14, 26.

Thus instead of 'the morning' angels perceive the Lord, or His kingdom, or celestial things of love and charity. This they do varyingly according to the train of thought in the Word which a person is reading.

[4] Similarly where a person reads of 'a way', as in 'going on your way' here, they cannot have any idea of a way, but a spiritual or a celestial idea, that is to say, like that in John, when the Lord said,

I am the way and the truth. John 14:6.

Also the idea in David,

Make Your ways known to me, O Jehovah, guide my way in truth. Psalms 25:4-5.

And in Isaiah,

He made him know the way of understanding. Isaiah 40:14.

Thus instead of 'a way' angels perceive truth. They do so in the historical as well as the prophetical sections of the Word; in fact angels no longer have any interest in matters of history as these are not at all in keeping with the ideas they have. Consequently in place of historical details they perceive such things as belong to the Lord and His kingdom, which also follow on one after another in marvellous array and perfect sequence in the internal sense. For this reason, so that the Word may serve angels as well, all historical details there are representative, and each expression serves to mean such things. This special feature is what makes the Word different from all other literature.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.