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Hosea 12

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1 Efraim pasxtas venton, postkuras la orientan venton; kun cxiu tago li faras pli da mensogajxoj kaj da idolajxoj; li faras interligon kun Asirio, kaj portas oleon en Egiptujon.

2 Sed ankaux kun Jehuda la Eternulo havas jugxon, kaj Li punos Jakobon laux lia konduto, laux liaj agoj Li repagos al li.

3 Ankoraux en la ventro li retenis sian fraton, kaj virigxinte li luktis kun Dio.

4 Li luktis kun angxelo kaj venkis, li tamen petegis lin kun ploro; en Bet-El Li nin trovos, kaj tie Li parolos kun ni.

5 La Eternulo estas Dio Cebaot, Eternulo estas Lia nomo.

6 Returnu do vin al via Dio, konservu favorkorecon kaj justecon, kaj fidu cxiam vian Dion.

7 Kanaanido havas en sia mano falsan pesilon, li amas trompi;

8 kaj Efraim diras:Mi ricxigxis, mi akiris al mi havajxon, sed en cxiuj miaj laboroj oni ne trovos cxe mi malbonagon, per kiu mi estus pekinta.

9 Mi, la Eternulo, estas via Dio de post la lando Egipta; Mi ankoraux denove logxigos vin en tendoj, kiel en la tagoj de festo.

10 Mi parolis per la profetoj, Mi donis multe da vizioj, kaj per la profetoj Mi parolis alegorie.

11 En Gilead estis idoloj, sed ili farigxis senvalorajxo; en Gilgal oni oferbucxis bovojn, sed iliaj altaroj farigxis kiel sxtonamasoj sur la sulko de la kampo.

12 Jakob forkuris sur la kampojn de Sirio, Izrael servis por edzino, kaj por edzino li devis gardi.

13 Kaj per profeto la Eternulo elkondukis Izraelon el Egiptujo, kaj per profeto Li gardis lin.

14 Forte kolerigis Lin Efraim, tial lia sango venos sur lin, kaj lia Sinjoro redonos al li pro liaj hontindajxoj.

   

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Apocalypse Explained #24

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24. And from the seven spirits, signifies the Divine in heaven. This is evident from the signification of "seven," as being what is full, and therefore all, and from its being predicated of the holy Divine things that proceed from the Lord (See above, n. 20); also from the signification of "spirits," as being those of whom heaven consists; for all these are called "spirits of God," since the Spirit of God is the Divine proceeding, or Divine truth united to Divine good in heaven and the church (Arcana Coelestia 9818); and the Divine proceeding or Divine truth united to Divine good, forms and creates the angel, and thus makes him [what he is] according to quality and quantity of reception (See the work on Heaven and Hell 7-12).

From this it is evident that by "the seven spirits" (of which more below), are not meant seven spirits, but all who are in heaven; as by the "seven churches" are not meant seven churches, but all who are in truths from good, or who are of the church (See above, n. 20). When this is understood, an arcanum is opened, namely, the meaning of "Jehovah God" in the Word; which is, that by "Jehovah" is meant the Divine Esse, and by "God" the Divine Existere in heaven. The Divine that is meant by "God" is the Divine Existere in heaven, because the Divine in heaven is in many; therefore in the Hebrew language, God is called "Elohim," in the plural; for the same reason angels are called gods, not that they are gods, but because the Divine of the Lord that is in them is meant by "God."

(That in the Word the Lord is called Jehovah from Esse or Essence, and God from Existere or Existence, see Arcana Coelestia 300, 3910, 6905; also that the Divine Esse is Divine good, and that the Divine Existere is Divine truth, n. 3061, 6280, 6880, 6905, 10579; and in general, that good is esse, and truth is existere therefrom, n. 5002. That angels are called gods from the reception of Divine truth proceeding from the Divine good of the Lord, n. 4295, 4402, 7268, 7873, 8301, 8192; and that Divine truth united to Divine good in heaven, is called, in one phrase, Divine truth, see in the work on Heaven and Hell 13, 133, 140)

  
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