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At aking iwawasak ang halang ng Damasco, at aking ihihiwalay ang mananahan mula sa libis ng Aven, at siyang humahawak ng cetro mula sa bahay ng Eden; at ang bayan ng Siria ay papasok sa pagkabihag hanggang sa Chir, sabi ng Panginoon.
Amos 1:5
The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #201
201. Internal Meaning of Amos, Chapter 1 (1)
1-2 [The teaching of] the Lord about the Word and doctrine from the Word: (1, 6)
3-5 About those who pervert knowledges [cognitiones] from the Word which are of service to doctrine and who thus turn away also the good of those knowledges: these will perish. (3, 15)
6-8 About those who apply the Word to a heretical falsity: these will perish. (3)
9-10 About those who pervert knowledges [cognitiones] of good and truth, and thereby do injury to the external sense of the Word. (3)
11-12 About those who pervert the sense of the letter of the Word by falsity, by which doctrine perishes. (3)
13-15 About those who falsify the truths of the sense of the letter of the Word: they do not resist in the day of combat, but destroy the truth of doctrine. (3, 15)
Swine
'Swine,' as in Matthew 7:6, signify the filthy loves that are in the hells of adulterers. They also signify people who only love worldly riches, and not spiritual riches, which are the knowledges of good and truth derived from the Word. To eat the flesh of 'swine,' as in Isaiah 65:4, signifies appropriate infernal evils.
(Referenties: Apocalypse Explained 1014; Apocalypse Revealed 727)
