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Hosea 2:18

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18 Und ich werde an jenem Tage einen Bund für sie schließen mit den Tieren des Feldes und mit den Vögeln des Himmels und mit den kriechenden Tieren der Erde; und ich werde Bogen und Schwert und den Krieg aus dem Lande zerbrechen und werde sie in Sicherheit wohnen lassen.

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Arcana Coelestia #10403

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10403. 'And bring them to me' means bringing together into a single whole. This is clear from the meaning of 'bringing to Aaron' as bringing into a single whole such things from the literal sense of the Word as are favourable to external forms of love and to the major ideas resulting from these. The fact that this is what is meant by 'bringing to Aaron the ear-jewels of gold on the ears of wives, sons, and daughters' is clear from what has been shown immediately above in 10402.

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

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Habakkuk 3:17

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17 For though the fig tree doesn't flourish, nor fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls: