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Oséias 5

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1 Ouvi isto, ó sacerdotes, e escutai, ó casa de Israel, e dai ouvidos, ó casa do rei; porque contra vós se dirige este juízo; pois que vos tornastes um laço para Mizpá, e uma rede estendida sobre o Tabor.

2 Os revoltosos se aprofundaram na corrupção; mas eu os castigarei a todos eles.

3 Eu conheço a Efraim, e Israel não se me esconde; porque agora te tens prostituído, ó Efraim, e Israel se contaminou.

4 As suas ações não lhes permitem voltar para o seu Deus; porque o espírito da prostituição está no meio deles, e não conhecem ao Senhor.

5 A soberba de Israel testifica contra eles; e Israel e Efraim cairão pela sua iniqüidade, e Judá cairá juntamente com eles.

6 Eles irão com os seus rebanhos e com as suas manadas, para buscarem ao Senhor, mas não o acharão; ele se retirou deles.

7 Aleivosamente se houveram contra o Senhor, porque geraram filhos estranhos; agora a festa da lua nova os consumirá, juntamente com as suas porções.

8 Tocai a corneta em Gibeá, a trombeta em Ramá; soltai o alarma em Bete-Áven; após ti, ó Benjamim.

9 Efraim será para assolação no dia do castigo: entre as tribos de Israel declaro o que é certo.

10 Os príncipes de Judá são como os que removem os marcos; derramarei, pois, o meu furor sobre eles como água.

11 Efraim está oprimido e quebrantado no juízo, porque foi do seu agrado andar após a vaidade.

12 Portanto para Efraim serei como a traça e para a casa de Judá como a podridão.

13 Quando Efraim viu a sua enfermidade, e Judá a sua chaga, recorreu Efraim à Assíria e enviou ao rei Jarebe; mas ele não pode curar-vos, nem sarar a vossa chaga.

14 Pois para Efraim serei como um leão, e como um leão novo para a casa de Judá; eu, sim eu despedaçarei, e ir-me-ei embora; arrebatarei, e não haverá quem livre.

15 Irei, e voltarei para o meu lugar, até que se reconheçam culpados e busquem a minha face; estando eles aflitos, ansiosamente me buscarão.

   

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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.