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Hosea 2

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1 καί-C εἰμί-V9--IAI3S ὁ- A--NSM ἀριθμός-N2--NSM ὁ- A--GPM υἱός-N2--GPM *ἰσραήλ-N---GSM ὡς-C ὁ- A--NSF ἄμμος-N2--NSF ὁ- A--GSF θάλασσα-N1S-GSF ὅς- --NSF οὐ-D ἐκμετρέω-VC--FPI3S οὐδέ-C ἐκἀριθμέω-VC--FPI3S καί-C εἰμί-V9--FMI3S ἐν-P ὁ- A--DSM τόπος-N2--DSM οὗ-D εἶπον-VCI-API3S αὐτός- D--DPM οὐ-D λαός-N2--NSM ἐγώ- P--GS σύ- P--NP ἐκεῖ-D καλέω-VC--FPI3P υἱός-N2--NPM θεός-N2--GSM ζάω-V3--PAPGSM

2 καί-C συνἄγω-VQ--FPI3P ὁ- A--NPM υἱός-N2--NPM *ιουδα-N---GSM καί-C ὁ- A--NPM υἱός-N2--NPM *ἰσραήλ-N---GSM ἐπί-P ὁ- A--ASN αὐτός- D--ASN καί-C τίθημι-VF--FMI3P ἑαυτοῦ- D--DPM ἀρχή-N1--ASF εἷς-A1A-ASF καί-C ἀναβαίνω-VF--FMI3P ἐκ-P ὁ- A--GSF γῆ-N1--GSF ὅτι-C μέγας-A1--NSF ὁ- A--NSF ἡμέρα-N1A-NSF ὁ- A--GSM *ιεζραελ-N---GSM

3 εἶπον-VAI-AAD2P ὁ- A--DSM ἀδελφός-N2--DSM σύ- P--GP *λαόσ+ἐγώ-N---NSM καί-C ὁ- A--DSF ἀδελφή-N1--DSF σύ- P--GP *ἐλεέω-VMI-XPPNSF

4 κρίνω-VC--APD2P πρός-P ὁ- A--ASF μήτηρ-N3--ASF σύ- P--GP κρίνω-VC--APD2P ὅτι-C αὐτός- D--NSF οὐ-D γυνή-N3K-NSF ἐγώ- P--GS καί-C ἐγώ- P--NS οὐ-D ἀνήρ-N3--NSM αὐτός- D--GSF καί-C ἐκαἴρω-VF2-FAI1S ὁ- A--ASF πορνεία-N1A-ASF αὐτός- D--GSF ἐκ-P πρόσωπον-N2N-GSN ἐγώ- P--GS καί-C ὁ- A--ASF μοιχεία-N1A-ASF αὐτός- D--GSF ἐκ-P μέσος-A1--GSM μαστός-N2--GPM αὐτός- D--GSF

5 ὅπως-C ἄν-X ἐκδύω-VF--FAI1S αὐτός- D--ASF γυμνός-A1--ASF καί-C ἀπο καταἵστημι-VF--FAI1S αὐτός- D--ASF καθώς-D ἡμέρα-N1A-DSF γένεσις-N3I-GSF αὐτός- D--GSF καί-C τίθημι-VF--FMI1S αὐτός- D--ASF ὡς-C ἔρημος-N2--ASF καί-C τάσσω-VF--FAI1S αὐτός- D--ASF ὡς-C γῆ-N1--ASF ἄνυδρος-A1B-ASF καί-C ἀποκτείνω-VF2-FAI1S αὐτός- D--ASF ἐν-P δίψος-N3E-DSN

6 καί-C ὁ- A--APN τέκνον-N2N-APN αὐτός- D--GSF οὐ-D μή-D ἐλεέω-VF--FAI1S ὅτι-C τέκνον-N2N-NPN πορνεία-N1A-GSF εἰμί-V9--PAI3S

7 ὅτι-C ἐκπορνεύω-VAI-AAI3S ὁ- A--NSF μήτηρ-N3--NSF αὐτός- D--GPM κατααἰσχύνω-V1I-IAI3S ὁ- A--NSF τίκτω-VB--AAPNSF αὐτός- D--APN εἶπον-VBI-AAI3S γάρ-X ἀκολουθέω-VF--FAI1S ὀπίσω-P ὁ- A--GPM ἐραστής-N1M-GPM ἐγώ- P--GS ὁ- A--GPM δίδωμι-V8--PAPGPM ἐγώ- P--DS ὁ- A--APM ἄρτος-N2--APM ἐγώ- P--GS καί-C ὁ- A--ASN ὕδωρ-N3--ASN ἐγώ- P--GS καί-C ὁ- A--APN ἱμάτιον-N2N-APN ἐγώ- P--GS καί-C ὁ- A--APN ὀθόνιον-N2N-APN ἐγώ- P--GS καί-C ὁ- A--ASN ἔλαιον-N2N-ASN ἐγώ- P--GS καί-C πᾶς-A3--APN ὅσος-A1--APN ἐγώ- P--DS καταἥκω-V1--PAI3S

8 διά-P οὗτος- D--ASN ἰδού-I ἐγώ- P--NS φράσσω-V1--PAI1S ὁ- A--ASF ὁδός-N2--ASF αὐτός- D--GSF ἐν-P σκόλοψ-N3P-DPM καί-C ἀναοἰκοδομέω-VF--FAI1S ὁ- A--APF ὁδός-N2--APF αὐτός- D--GSF καί-C ὁ- A--ASF τρίβος-N2--ASF αὐτός- D--GSF οὐ-D μή-D εὑρίσκω-VB--AAS3S

9 καί-C καταδιώκω-VF--FMI3S ὁ- A--APM ἐραστής-N1M-APM αὐτός- D--GSF καί-C οὐ-D μή-D καταλαμβάνω-VB--AAS3S αὐτός- D--APM καί-C ζητέω-VF--FAI3S αὐτός- D--APM καί-C οὐ-D μή-D εὑρίσκω-VB--AAS3S αὐτός- D--APM καί-C εἶπον-VF2-FAI3S πορεύομαι-VF--FMI1S καί-C ἐπιστρέφω-VF--FAI1S πρός-P ὁ- A--ASM ἀνήρ-N3--ASM ἐγώ- P--GS ὁ- A--ASM πρότερος-A1--ASM ὅτι-C καλῶς-D ἐγώ- P--DS εἰμί-V9--IAI3S τότε-D ἤ-C νῦν-D

10 καί-C αὐτός- D--NSF οὐ-D γιγνώσκω-VZI-AAI3S ὅτι-C ἐγώ- P--NS δίδωμι-VX--XAI1S αὐτός- D--DSF ὁ- A--ASM σῖτος-N2--ASM καί-C ὁ- A--ASM οἶνος-N2--ASM καί-C ὁ- A--ASN ἔλαιον-N2N-ASN καί-C ἀργύριον-N2N-ASN πληθύνω-VAI-AAI1S αὐτός- D--DSF αὐτός- D--NSF δέ-X ἀργυροῦς-A1A-APN καί-C χρυσοῦς-A1C-APN ποιέω-VAI-AAI3S ὁ- A--DSF *βααλ-N---DSF

11 διά-P οὗτος- D--ASN ἐπιστρέφω-VF--FAI1S καί-C κομίζω-VF2-FMI1S ὁ- A--ASM σῖτος-N2--ASM ἐγώ- P--GS κατά-P ὥρα-N1A-ASF αὐτός- D--GSM καί-C ὁ- A--ASM οἶνος-N2--ASM ἐγώ- P--GS ἐν-P καιρός-N2--DSM αὐτός- D--GSM καί-C ἀποαἱρέω-VF2-FMI1S ὁ- A--APN ἱμάτιον-N2N-APN ἐγώ- P--GS καί-C ὁ- A--APN ὀθόνιον-N2N-APN ἐγώ- P--GS ὁ- A--GSN μή-D καλύπτω-V1--PAN ὁ- A--ASF ἀσχημοσύνη-N1--ASF αὐτός- D--GSF

12 καί-C νῦν-D ἀποκαλύπτω-VF--FAI1S ὁ- A--ASF ἀκαθαρσία-N1A-ASF αὐτός- D--GSF ἐνώπιον-P ὁ- A--GPM ἐραστής-N1M-GPM αὐτός- D--GSF καί-C οὐδείς-A3--NSM οὐ-D μή-D ἐκαἱρέω-VB--AMS3S αὐτός- D--ASF ἐκ-P χείρ-N3--GSF ἐγώ- P--GS

13 καί-C ἀποστρέφω-VF--FAI1S πᾶς-A1S-APF ὁ- A--APF εὐφροσύνη-N1--APF αὐτός- D--GSF ἑορτή-N1--APF αὐτός- D--GSF καί-C ὁ- A--APF νεομηνία-N1A-APF αὐτός- D--GSF καί-C ὁ- A--APN σάββατον-N2N-APN αὐτός- D--GSF καί-C πᾶς-A1S-APF ὁ- A--APF πανήγυρις-N3I-APF αὐτός- D--GSF

14 καί-C ἀπο ἀναἵζω-VF2-FAI1S ἄμπελος-N2--ASF αὐτός- D--GSF καί-C ὁ- A--APF συκῆ-N1--APF αὐτός- D--GSF ὅσος-A1--APN εἶπον-VBI-AAI3S μίσθωμα-N3M-NPN ἐγώ- P--GS οὗτος- D--NPN εἰμί-V9--PAI3S ὅς- --APN δίδωμι-VAI-AAI3P ἐγώ- P--DS ὁ- A--NPM ἐραστής-N1M-NPM ἐγώ- P--GS καί-C τίθημι-VF--FMI1S αὐτός- D--APN εἰς-P μαρτύριον-N2N-ASN καί-C καταἐσθίω-VF--FMI3S αὐτός- D--APN ὁ- A--NPN θηρίον-N2N-NPN ὁ- A--GSM ἀγρός-N2--GSM καί-C ὁ- A--NPN πετεινόν-N2N-NPN ὁ- A--GSM οὐρανός-N2--GSM καί-C ὁ- A--NPN ἑρπετόν-N2N-NPN ὁ- A--GSF γῆ-N1--GSF

15 καί-C ἐκδικέω-VF--FAI1S ἐπί-P αὐτός- D--ASF ὁ- A--APF ἡμέρα-N1A-APF ὁ- A--GPM *βααλιμ-N---GP ἐν-P ὅς- --DPF ἐπιθύω-V1I-IAI3S αὐτός- D--DPM καί-C περιτίθημι-V7I-IMI3S ὁ- A--APN ἐνώτιον-N2N-APN αὐτός- D--GSF καί-C ὁ- A--APN καθόρμιον-N2N-APN αὐτός- D--GSF καί-C πορεύομαι-V1I-IMI3S ὀπίσω-P ὁ- A--GPM ἐραστής-N1M-GPM αὐτός- D--GSF ἐγώ- P--GS δέ-X ἐπιλανθάνω-VBI-AMI3S λέγω-V1--PAI3S κύριος-N2--NSM

16 διά-P οὗτος- D--ASN ἰδού-I ἐγώ- P--NS πλανάω-VF2-FAI1S αὐτός- D--ASF καί-C τάσσω-VF--FAI1S αὐτός- D--ASF εἰς-P ἔρημος-N2--ASF καί-C λαλέω-VF--FAI1S ἐπί-P ὁ- A--ASF καρδία-N1A-ASF αὐτός- D--GSF

17 καί-C δίδωμι-VF--FAI1S αὐτός- D--DSF ὁ- A--APN κτῆμα-N3M-APN αὐτός- D--GSF ἐκεῖθεν-D καί-C ὁ- A--ASF κοιλάς-N3D-ASF *αχωρ-N---GS δια ἀναοἴγω-VA--AAN σύνεσις-N3I-ASF αὐτός- D--GSF καί-C ταπεινόω-VC--FPI3S ἐκεῖ-D κατά-P ὁ- A--APF ἡμέρα-N1A-APF νηπιότης-N3T-GSF αὐτός- D--GSF καί-C κατά-P ὁ- A--APF ἡμέρα-N1A-APF ἀνάβασις-N3I-GSF αὐτός- D--GSF ἐκ-P γῆ-N1--GSF *αἴγυπτος-N2--GSF

18 καί-C εἰμί-V9--FMI3S ἐν-P ἐκεῖνος- D--DSF ὁ- A--DSF ἡμέρα-N1A-DSF λέγω-V1--PAI3S κύριος-N2--NSM καλέω-VF--FAI3S ἐγώ- P--AS ὁ- A--NSM ἀνήρ-N3--NSM ἐγώ- P--GS καί-C οὐ-D καλέω-VF--FAI3S ἐγώ- P--AS ἔτι-D *βααλιμ-N---NP

19 καί-C ἐκαἴρω-VF2-FAI1S ὁ- A--APN ὄνομα-N3M-APN ὁ- A--GPM *βααλιμ-N---GP ἐκ-P στόμα-N3M-GSN αὐτός- D--GSF καί-C οὐ-D μή-D μιμνήσκω-VS--APS3P οὐκέτι-D ὁ- A--APN ὄνομα-N3M-APN αὐτός- D--GPM

20 καί-C διατίθημι-VF--FMI1S αὐτός- D--DPM ἐν-P ἐκεῖνος- D--DSF ὁ- A--DSF ἡμέρα-N1A-DSF διαθήκη-N1--ASF μετά-P ὁ- A--GPN θηρίον-N2N-GPN ὁ- A--GSM ἀγρός-N2--GSM καί-C μετά-P ὁ- A--GPN πετεινόν-N2N-GPN ὁ- A--GSM οὐρανός-N2--GSM καί-C μετά-P ὁ- A--GPN ἑρπετόν-N2N-GPN ὁ- A--GSF γῆ-N1--GSF καί-C τόξον-N2N-ASN καί-C ῥομφαία-N1A-ASF καί-C πόλεμος-N2--ASM συντρίβω-VF--FAI1S ἀπό-P ὁ- A--GSF γῆ-N1--GSF καί-C καταοἰκίζω-VF2-FAI1S σύ- P--AS ἐπί-P ἐλπίς-N3D-DSF

21 καί-C μνηστεύομαι-VF--FMI1S σύ- P--AS ἐμαυτοῦ- D--DSM εἰς-P ὁ- A--ASM αἰών-N3W-ASM καί-C μνηστεύομαι-VF--FMI1S σύ- P--AS ἐμαυτοῦ- D--DSM ἐν-P δικαιοσύνη-N1--DSF καί-C ἐν-P κρίμα-N3M-DSN καί-C ἐν-P ἔλεος-N3E-DSN καί-C ἐν-P οἰκτιρμός-N2--DPM

22 καί-C μνηστεύομαι-VF--FMI1S σύ- P--AS ἐμαυτοῦ- D--DSM ἐν-P πίστις-N3I-DSF καί-C ἐπιγιγνώσκω-VF--FMI2S ὁ- A--ASM κύριος-N2--ASM

23 καί-C εἰμί-V9--FMI3S ἐν-P ἐκεῖνος- D--DSF ὁ- A--DSF ἡμέρα-N1A-DSF λέγω-V1--PAI3S κύριος-N2--NSM ἐπιἀκούω-VF--FMI1S ὁ- A--DSM οὐρανός-N2--DSM καί-C ὁ- A--NSM οὐρανός-N2--NSM ἐπιἀκούω-VF--FMI3S ὁ- A--DSF γῆ-N1--DSF

24 καί-C ὁ- A--NSF γῆ-N1--NSF ἐπιἀκούω-VF--FMI3S ὁ- A--ASM σῖτος-N2--ASM καί-C ὁ- A--ASM οἶνος-N2--ASM καί-C ὁ- A--ASN ἔλαιον-N2N-ASN καί-C αὐτός- D--NPN ἐπιἀκούω-VF--FMI3S ὁ- A--DSM *ιεζραελ-N---DSM

25 καί-C σπείρω-VF2-FAI1S αὐτός- D--ASF ἐμαυτοῦ- D--DSM ἐπί-P ὁ- A--GSF γῆ-N1--GSF καί-C ἐλεέω-VF--FAI1S ὁ- A--ASF *οὐ+ἐλεέω-N---ASF καί-C εἶπον-VF2-FAI1S ὁ- A--DSM *οὐ+λαόσ+ἐγώ-N---DSM λαός-N2--NSM ἐγώ- P--GS εἰμί-V9--PAI2S σύ- P--NS καί-C αὐτός- D--NSM εἶπον-VF2-FAI3S κύριος-N2--NSM ὁ- A--NSM θεός-N2--NSM ἐγώ- P--GS εἰμί-V9--PAI2S σύ- P--NS

   

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Apocalypse Revealed #757

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757. "A prison for every foul spirit, and a prison for every unclean and loathsome bird!" This symbolically means that the evils willed and so done by the people in those hells, and the falsities entertained in thought and in consequent intention, are diabolical, because the people have turned away from the Lord to themselves.

A prison symbolizes a hell, because these Roman Catholics were imprisoned there. A spirit symbolizes everything pertaining to their affection or will and of the consequent action, and a bird symbolizes everything pertaining to the thought or intellect and consequent intention. A foul spirit and an unclean bird accordingly symbolize all the evils willed and so done, and all the falsities entertained in thought and consequent intention. Moreover, since the evils and falsities entertained by these people are found in the hells, therefore the symbolical meaning is that their evils and falsities are diabolical. In addition, because these people have turned away from the Lord to themselves, every unclean bird is also called loathsome.

Similar symbolism is used to describe Babylon in the Prophets, as in Isaiah:

Babylon... will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It will never be inhabited..., so that Arabs will not tarry there... But ziyyim 1 will lie there, their houses will be full of 'ochim, 2 the offspring of owls will dwell there, and satyrs will caper there. 'Iyyim 3 also will reply in its palaces, and dragons in its pleasant palaces. (Isaiah 13:19-22)

I will... cut off from Babylon the name and remnant... I will make it a possession of the bittern... (Isaiah 14:22-23)

And in Jeremiah:

...in Babylon shall dwell ziyyim 1 and 'iyyim 3 and the offspring of owls... As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors..., no son of man shall dwell in it. (Jeremiah 50:39-40)

It is apparent from this that a prison for every foul spirit, and a prison for every unclean and loathsome bird, means symbolically that the evils willed and so done by the people in those hells, and the falsities entertained in thought and consequent intention, are diabolical, because the people have turned away from the Lord to themselves.

[2] It is apparent from the Word that birds symbolize such things as have to do with the intellect and thought and consequent intention, and this in both senses, bad and good. They are found in a bad sense in the following passages there:

In the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice... (At length) on the bird of abominations shall be desolation. Even until the consummation... there shall rain down devastation. (Daniel 9:27)

The pelican and the bittern shall possess (the land). The screech owl and the raven shall dwell in it. (Isaiah 34:11)

Nothing else than hellish falsities are symbolized by 'ochim, 2 ziyyim, 1 the offspring of owls, and dragons in the passages cited above, as also by the birds that came down on the carcasses which Abram drove away (Genesis 15:11), by the birds which were given human corpses for food (Jeremiah 7:33; 15:3; 16:4; 19:7; 34:20; Ezekiel 29:5; Psalms 79:1-2).

[3] Birds are found in a good sense in the following passages:

Creeping thing and bird... shall praise the name of Jehovah. (Psalms 148:10, 13)

In that day I will make a covenant for them... with the birds of the sky, and the creeping things of the ground. (Hosea 2:18)

...ask the beasts, and they will teach you, and the birds of the sky, and they will tell you... Who among all these does not know that the hand of Jehovah does this? (Job 12:7-9)

I looked, when behold, there was no man; all the birds of the sky had flown away. (Jeremiah 4:24-26)

Both the birds of the sky and the beasts have fled away..., (because) I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a den of dragons. (Jeremiah 9:10-11)

There is no truth, no mercy, no knowledge of God... Therefore the land will mourn... as regards the beasts of the field and the birds of the sky. (Hosea 4:1, 3)

I am God... calling a bird from the east, a man of My counsel from a far country. (Isaiah 46:9, 11)

Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon... In its branches all the birds of the sky made their nests..., and in its shade all great nations dwelled. (Ezekiel 31:3, 6)

[4] Similar statements to that made of Assyria as a cedar here are found elsewhere, as in Ezekiel 17:23, Daniel 4:10-14, 20-21, Mark 4:32, Luke 13:19.

Speak to every sort of bird and to every beast of the field: ."..come... to... a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel...." (Thus) I will set My glory among the nations. (Ezekiel 39:17, 21, cf. Revelation 19:17)

And so on regarding birds elsewhere, as in Isaiah 18:1, 6; Ezekiel 38:20; Hosea 9:11; 11:10-11.

That birds symbolize such things as have to do with the intellect and its consequent thought and intention is clearly apparent from birds in the spiritual world. There, too, one sees birds of every kind and every species - in heaven very beautiful ones, birds of paradise, turtle doves, and doves - in hell dragons, screech owls, eagle owls, and others of that kind - all of which are objective representations of thoughts springing from good affections in heaven, and of thoughts springing from evil affections in hell.

Footnotes:

1. A Hebrew word (צִיִּים), appearing six times in the Old Testament (Psalms 72:9; 74:14). It seems to refer to desert dwellers, and in contexts suggesting animals, to desert creatures, but the actual identity is unknown. It may not be a precise term.

2. Another Hebrew word (אֹחִים), appearing only once in the Old Testament (Isaiah 13:21:4 identifies them as birds of the night.

3. Another Hebrew word (אִיִּים), appearing only three times in the Old Testament (Isaiah 13:22; 34:14

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.