Amos 5:12

¹² For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #206

206. Internal Meaning of Amos, Chapter 6

Of the spiritual church which was instituted. (3, 3)

1-2 It turned out worse than the religions of other nations. (3)

3-6 It possesses all things of the church in abundance; they think nothing of the destruction of the church. (3)

7-9 Therefore all things will perish, (3)

10-12 until nothing remains, (3)

13-14 for the reason that they acquired those things from what is their own. (3, 17)

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