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호세아서 9:8

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8 에브라임은 내 하나님의 파숫군 이어늘 선지자는 그 모든 행위에 새 잡는 자의 그물 같고 또 그 하나님의 전에서 원한을 품었도다

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Arcana Coelestia #2583

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2583. 'And his women servants' means as regards affections for subsidiary matters of doctrine. This is clear from the meaning of 'women servants' as affections for rational truths and for factual knowledge, dealt with in 1895, 2567, in this case for matters of doctrine because they are attributed to the doctrine of faith, for these women servants were Abimelech's, who means the doctrine of faith, 2509, 2510. The exact meaning of anything that is mentioned depends on that to which it is attributed.

  
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Pollution

  

In Leviticus 22:6, this signifies a state of being in falsities. (Arcana Coelestia 1666)

In Hosea 9:3, this signifies appropriating things impure and profane derived from reasoning. (Arcana Coelestia 4581[10], Apocalypse Explained 654[56]) 'Pollution' denotes the truth of faith defiled.

(References: Arcana Coelestia 4504)