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Amos 4:12

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12 διά-P οὗτος- D--ASN οὕτως-D ποιέω-VF--FAI1S σύ- P--DS *ἰσραήλ-N---VSM πλήν-D ὅτι-C οὕτως-D ποιέω-VF--FAI1S σύ- P--DS ἑτοιμάζω-V1--PMD2S ὁ- A--GSN ἐπικαλέω-V2--PMN ὁ- A--ASM θεός-N2--ASM σύ- P--GS *ἰσραήλ-N---VSM

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The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #204

  
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204. Internal Meaning of Amos, Chapter 4

1-3 Those who pervert the doctrine of the church: they will also fall into falsities in outermost things. (2)

4-6 They worship in externals according to the statutes, which will be similar [to genuine worship], but only in outermost things. (2)

7-8 Some things true will remain, when the rest are false, in consequence of which truths will have no power. (2)

9 Afterward all things of the church are falsified, (3, 11)

10-11 and finally they are profaned by sensual knowledges [scientifica], the profanation extending to all things of the church, so that there is hardly anything left. (3)

12-13 Exhortation to turn themselves to the Lord. (3)

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

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Amos 4:1-3

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1 Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, "Bring us drinks!"

2 The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness that behold, "The days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, and the last of you with fish hooks.

3 You will go out at the breaks in the wall, everyone straight before her; and you will cast yourselves into Harmon," says Yahweh.