The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #202
202. Internal Meaning of Amos, Chapter 2
1-3 About those who adulterate the good of the sense of the letter of the Word: these destroy the good and truth of the church. (2, 17)
4-5 About those who destroy the celestial things of the Word: they destroy both its celestial and its spiritual things. (2)
6-8 About those who destroy the spiritual things of the church: these go away in consequence into falsities of every kind. (2)
9-11 The Lord entirely removed falsities of evil when the church was instituted among them, and they were instructed. (2)
12-16 Nevertheless that church perverted all things, and hence it has become like one who has truth and yet is without truth, and thus perishes in the 2 (2)
time of judgment. (15)
Amos 2:12-16
12
"But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, 'Don't prophesy!'
13
Behold, I will crush you in your place, as a cart crushes that is full of grain.
14
Flight will perish from the swift; and the strong won't strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself;
15
neither shall he stand who handles the bow; and he who is swift of foot won't escape; neither shall he who rides the horse deliver himself;
16
and he who is courageous among the mighty will flee away naked on that day," says Yahweh.
