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Arcana Coelestia #10325

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10325. The books of the Word are all those which have the internal sense; books which do not have it are not the Word. The books of the Word in the Old Testament are: The five Books of Moses; the Book of Joshua; the Book of Judges; the two Books of Samuel; the two Books of Kings; the Psalms of David; and the Prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi. And in the New Testament they are: The four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John; and the Book of Revelation.

  
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Hosea 1:1

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1 The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.

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The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #184

  
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184. Internal Meaning of Hosea, Chapter 1(1)

1-3 The prophet represented the falsification of the Word with the Jewish nation. (3)

3-5 That profane church will be destroyed when the Lord comes. (3, 1)

6 No pity is possible;, (3, 1)

7 but the Lord will pity those who will be of His new church. (1, 11)

7-9 When nothing of the church will any longer remain, (3)

10-11 then the new church will grow, and will acknowledge the Lord. (11)

  
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