The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #69
69. Internal Meaning of Jeremiah, Chapter 3 (16)
The spiritual church, or the truths of the church.
1-2 They have departed and falsified truths. (2)
3 They are unwilling to understand truths. (2)
4-5 They have merely acknowledged the Word outwardly in the letter, and not even with the Word [in mind], but with falsities. (2)
6-7 The church in respect to truths, has falsified truths, and has not been willing to be reformed. (2)
7-9 The celestial church, that is, the church in respect to good, has done likewise; as the spiritual church has falsified truths, so the celestial church has adulterated goods. (2)
10-11 They worship falsities of evil, and have perverted goods more than truths. (2)
12-14 Exhortation to reject falsity and to receive truth, that there may be conjunction and a church, (2, 11)
15 and that there may then be knowledge [cognitio]. (11, 15)
16-17 When the Lord comes there will no longer be the representative of a church, but a church, wherein the Lord Himself will be in place of that representative. (1, 11)
18 Then truth and good will make one. (11, 11)
19 Those who will draw near shall be adopted as children by the Lord; (11)
20-21 but the church has become perverted. (3)
22-25 Those who will be of the new church will acknowledge and confess that they have falsities and evils. (11)
Jeremiah 3:22-25
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Return, you backsliding children, I will heal your backsliding. "Behold, we have come to you; for you are Yahweh our God.
23
Truly in vain is [the help that is looked for] from the hills, the tumult on the mountains. Truly the salvation of Israel is in Yahweh our God.
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But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
25
Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God."
