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Осия 12

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1 Ефрем пасет ветер и гоняется за восточным ветром, каждый день умножает ложь и разорение; заключают они союз с Ассуром, и в Египет отвозится елей.

2 Но и с Иудою у Господа суд и Он посетит Иакова по путям его, воздаст ему по делам его.

3 Еще во чреве матери запинал он брата своего, а возмужав боролся с Богом.

4 Он боролся с Ангелом – и превозмог; плакал и умолял Его; в Вефиле Он нашел нас и там говорил с нами.

5 А Господь есть Бог Саваоф; Сущий(Иегова) – имя Его.

6 Обратись и ты к Богу твоему; наблюдай милость и суд и уповай на Бога твоего всегда.

7 Хананеянин с неверными весами в руке любит обижать;

8 и Ефрем говорит: „однако я разбогател; накопил себе имущества, хотя вовсех моих трудах не найдут ничего незаконного, что было бы грехом".

9 А Я, Господь Бог твой от самой земли Египетской, опять поселю тебя в кущах, как во дни праздника.

10 Я говорил к пророкам, и умножал видения, и чрез пророков употреблял притчи.

11 Если Галаад сделался Авеном, то они стали суетны, в Галгалах заколали в жертву тельцов, и жертвенники их стояли как груды камней на межах поля.

12 Убежал Иаков на поля Сирийские, и служил Израиль за жену, и за жену стерег овец .

13 Чрез пророка вывел Господь Израиля из Египта, и чрез пророка Он охранял его.

14 Сильно раздражил Ефрем Господа и за то кровь его оставит на нем, и поношение его обратит Господь на него.

   

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Иов 10:16

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16 оно увеличивается. Ты гонишься за мною, как лев, и снова нападаешь на меня и чудным являешься во мне.

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Apocalypse Revealed #573

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573. Whose feet were like those of a bear. This symbolically means, full of misconceptions taken from the literal sense of the Word, read but not understood.

Feet symbolize the natural support which is the basis on which the heresy meant by the leopard rests and, so to speak, propels itself, and that support is the literal sense of the Word. A bear symbolizes people who read the Word but fail to understand it, so that they derive from it misconceptions.

That these are the people symbolized by bears became apparent to me from seeing bears in the spiritual world, and from seeing some people there wearing bearskins. They were all people who read the Word and did not see any doctrinal truth in it. They were also people who affirmed the appearances of truth there, resulting in misconceptions.

Some bears seen in the spiritual world are dangerous and some are not, and some also are white, but they are told apart by their heads. Bears that are not dangerous have heads like those of calves or sheep.

Bears symbolize people and things like this in the following passages:

A bear lying in wait for me has overturned my paths, a lion in hidden places has corrupted my ways... He has made me desolate. (Lamentations 3:9-11)

I will meet them like a bereaved bear..., and there I will devour them like a savage lion. The wild beast of the field shall rend them. (Hosea 13:8)

...there shall lie down... the calf and the young lion... The heifer and the bear shall graze. (Isaiah 11:6-7)

(The second beast that came up from the sea was) like a bear... and had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. (Daniel 7:5)

The lion and bear that David smote, catching the lion by its beard (1 Samuel 17:34-37), have a similar symbolic meaning. So, too, in 2 Samuel 17:8.

[2] A lion and a bear are mentioned in these places because a lion symbolizes falsity destroying the Word's truths, and a bear symbolizes misconceptions that destroy them also, but not to the same degree. Thus we are told in Amos:

...the day of Jehovah...(a day of) darkness, and not light. It is as if one who flees from a lion comes upon a bear. (Amos 5:18-19)

In the second book of Kings we read that Elisha was mocked by some boys and called a baldhead, and that forty-two boys were therefore torn apart by two female bears from the woods (2 Kings 2:23-24). This occurred because Elisha represented the Lord in respect to the Word (no. 298), because baldness symbolized the Word without its literal sense, thus having no reality (no. 47), because the number forty-two symbolized blasphemy (no. 583), and because female bears symbolized the literal sense of the Word read indeed, but not understood.

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.