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Hoseas 5

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1 Hør dette, I prester, og gi akt, du Israels hus, og du kongehus, vend øret til! For eder gjelder dommen; for en snare har I vært på Mispa og et utspent nett på Tabor.

2 De er falt dypt i en mangfoldighet av forvillelser; men jeg skal tukte dem alle.

3 Jeg kjenner Efra'im, og Israel er ikke skjult for mig; for nu har du drevet utukt, Efra'im! Israel er blitt urent.

4 Deres gjerninger tillater dem ikke å vende om til sin Gud; for de har en utuktens ånd i sitt indre, og Herren kjenner de ikke.

5 Og Israels stolthet skal vidne mot det like i dets åsyn, og Israel og Efra'im skal omkomme for sin misgjernings skyld; også Juda skal omkomme med dem.

6 Med sine får og okser skal de gå for å søke Herren, men ikke finne ham; han har dradd sig bort fra dem.

7 Mot Herren har de båret sig troløst at, for de har født uekte barn; nu skal nymånen* fortære både dem og alt det de eier. / {* som de feiret på hedensk vis.}

8 Støt i basun i Gibea, i trompet i ama! Blås alarm i Bet-Aven*! Fienden er efter dig, Benjamin! / {* HSE 4, 15.}

9 Efra'im skal bli til en ørken på straffens dag; blandt Israels stammer har jeg kunngjort hvad sikkert vil skje.

10 Judas fyrster er blitt lik dem som flytter markeskjell; over dem vil jeg utøse min harme som vann.

11 Efra'im blir undertrykt, knust ved dom; for han fant for godt å følge menneskers bud.

12 Og jeg er som møll for Efra'im og som råttenhet for Judas hus.

13 Da Efra'im så sin sykdom og Juda sitt sår, da gikk Efra'im til Assur og sendte bud til kong Jareb*; men han skal ikke kunne helbrede eder, og eders sår skal ikke bli lægt. / {* den stridbare, Assyrias konge; HSE 10, 6.}

14 For jeg er som en løve mot Efra'im og som en ungløve mot Judas hus; selv sønderriver jeg og går min vei; jeg bærer byttet bort, og det er ingen som frelser.

15 Jeg vil gå min vei, jeg vil vende tilbake til mitt sted, inntil de erkjenner sig skyldige og søker mitt åsyn; i sin trengsel skal de lete efter mig.

   

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Salmenes 107:19

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19 Da ropte de til Herren i sin nød; av deres trengsler frelste han dem.

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True Christian Religion #156

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156. (vi) A PERSON'S SPIRIT IS HIS MIND, AND WHATEVER COMES FROM IT.

A person's spirit, regarded as an object, is nothing but his mind. It is this which lives on after death, and it is then called a spirit; if he is good, an angelic spirit and later an angel, if wicked, a satanic spirit and afterwards a Satan. Everyone's mind is his internal man, which is the real person and resides within the external man composed of his body. So when the body is cast off as the result of death, the internal man has a fully human form. Those, then, are in error who believe that a person's mind resides only in his head. There it is only in its beginnings, from which first emerge everything a person's understanding allows him to think and his will induces him to do. But in the body the mind is present in derivatives from those beginnings, and these have been so constructed as to permit sensation and action. Since it is inwardly attached to the bodily structures, it imparts to them sensation and movement, together with a feeling that the body thinks and acts of itself. Yet every intelligent person knows that this is a fallacy. Now since a person's spirit is allowed by his understanding to think and is induced by his will to act, and the body does not do so of itself but from the spirit, it follows that a person's spirit means his intelligence and the affection of his love, and everything which comes from it and acts.

[2] There are numerous passages in the Word to prove that a person's spirit means such things as are to do with the mind; their mere quotation will show anyone that this is so. The following are a few among many:

Bezaleel was filled with the spirit of wisdom, intelligence and knowledge, Exodus 31:3.

Nebuchadnezzar said of Daniel that an outstanding spirit of knowledge, intelligence and wisdom was in him, Daniel 5:12, 14.

Joshua was filled with the spirit of wisdom, Deuteronomy 34:9.

Make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit, Ezekiel 18:31.

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for of such is the kingdom of the heavens, Matthew 5:3.

I dwell in a broken and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, Isaiah 57:15.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, Psalms 51:17.

I will give a cloak of praise in place of a depressed spirit, Isaiah 61:3.

Spirit also stands for the products of a wrong and unjust mind, as these passages prove:

He said to the foolish prophets, who run after their own spirit, Ezekiel 13:3.

Conceive chaff, bring forth stubble; as to your spirit, fire shall devour you, Isaiah 33:11.

A man who is in spirit a vagabond and utters a lie, Micah 2:11.

A generation whose spirit is not steadfast with God, Psalms 78:8.

A spirit of whoring, Hosea 4:12; 5:4.

That every heart may melt and every spirit be depressed, Ezekiel 21:7.

That which rises upon your spirit shall never be, Ezekiel 20:32.

Provided there is no deceit in his spirit, Psalms 32:2.

The spirit of Pharaoh was troubled, Genesis 41:8.

Likewise that of Nebuchadnezzar, Daniel 2:3.

These and very many other passages plainly establish that spirit means a person's mind and what is to do with it.

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