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Amos 8:4

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4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

Commentary

 

Summer

  

In Genesis 8:22, this signifies, with winter, the state of the regenerate man in his new will, the alternations of which are like Summer and Winter. (Arcana Coelestia 930)

In Matthew 24:32, this signifies the full state of the church. (Divine Love and Wisdom 73)