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Amos 1

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1 Les paroles d'Amos, qui était d'entre les bergers de Tékoah, lesquelles [il entendit] dans une vision touchant Israël, du temps d'Hozias Roi de Juda, et de Jéroboam fils de Joas, Roi d'Israël, deux ans avant le tremblement de terre.

2 Il dit donc : L'Eternel rugira de Sion, et fera ouïr sa voix de Jérusalem, et les cabanes des bergers lamenteront, et le sommet de Carmel séchera.

3 Ainsi a dit l'Eternel : à cause de trois crimes de Damas, même à cause de quatre, je ne rappellerai point cela, [mais je le ferai] parce qu'ils ont froissé Galaad avec des herses de fer.

4 Et j'enverrai le feu à la maison de Hazaël, et il dévorera le palais de Benhadad.

5 Je briserai aussi la barre de Damas, et j'exterminerai de Bikhath-aven ses habitants, et de la maison d'Héden celui qui y tient le sceptre; et le peuple de Syrie sera transporté à Kir, a dit l'Eternel.

6 Ainsi a dit l'Eternel : à cause de trois crimes de Gaza, même à cause de quatre, je ne rappellerai point cela; [mais je le ferai] parce qu'ils ont transporté ceux [de Juda] en une captivité entière, jusqu'à les livrer à Edom.

7 Et j'enverrai le feu à la muraille de Gaza, et il dévorera ses palais.

8 Et j'exterminerai d'Asdod ses habitants, et d'Askélon celui qui y tient le sceptre; puis je tournerai ma main sur Hékron, et le reste des Philistins périra, a dit le Seigneur l'Eternel.

9 Ainsi a dit l'Eternel : à cause de trois crimes de Tyr, même à cause de quatre, je ne rappellerai point cela, [mais je le ferai] parce qu'ils ont livré ceux de Juda en une captivité entière à Edom, et ne se sont point souvenus de l'alliance fraternelle.

10 Et j'enverrai le feu à la muraille de Tyr, et il dévorera ses palais.

11 Ainsi a dit l'Eternel : à cause de trois crimes d'Edom, même à cause de quatre, je ne rappellerai point cela; [mais je le ferai] parce qu'il a poursuivi son frère avec l'épée, et qu'il a altéré ses compassions, et que sa colère déchire continuellement, et qu'il garde sa fureur à toujours.

12 Et j'enverrai le feu en Téman, et il dévorera les palais de Botsra.

13 Ainsi a dit l'Eternel : à cause de trois crimes des enfants de Hammon, même à cause de quatre, je ne rappellerai point cela; [mais je le ferai] parce que pour élargir leurs bornes ils ont fendu en Galaad le ventre des femmes enceintes.

14 Et j'allumerai le feu, avec alarme au jour de la bataille, avec tourbillon au jour de la tempête, en la muraille de Rabba, et il dévorera ses palais.

15 Et leur Roi ira en captivité, et avec lui les principaux de son pays, a dit l'Eternel.

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Damascus

  

In Genesis 14:15, Damascus, being the chief city of Syria, signifies knowledge of good and truth. (Arcana Coelestia 1715)

In Ezekiel 27:18, this signifies external knowledge. (Apocalypse Explained 376[18])

In Isaiah 17:3, this signifies people who value religion for knowing only external things. (The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms 17)

Damascus and Aroer (Isaiah 17:1, 2) signify knowledge of truth and good. See Eliezer of Damascus.

(Referencat: Apocalypse Explained 911)

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Arcana Coelestia #9051

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9051. 'Eye for eye' means if anything is injured by them in the inner part of the understanding. This is clear from the meaning of 'the eye' as the understanding, in this instance the inner part of it, the life of which is the life of faith. A person's understanding has an outer part and an inner part The outer part of his understanding is where thought that enters his awareness is, whereas the inner part is where thought that does not enter his awareness is, though it enters that of the angels. This part of the understanding is what the Lord enlightens when a person receives faith, for it exists in the light of heaven and holds within it a person's spiritual life. This is not made plainly evident to the person while in the world, but it is made so to that person in the next life when he becomes an angel among angels in heaven. In the meanwhile that life lies hidden within the thought belonging to the outer part of the understanding, producing there the holiness and reverence for the Lord, for love and faith in Him, for the Word, and for everything else that is the Church's. The reason why 'the eye' means the understanding is that the eye corresponds to the understanding; for the understanding sees in the light of heaven, but the eye sees in the light of the world. The things that the former eye, that is, the understanding, sees are spiritual, and its field of vision is the factual knowledge contained in the person's memory. But the things which the physical eye sees are earthly, and its field of vision consists in every object that appears in the world. Regarding 'the eye', that in the spiritual sense it means the understanding, and also faith since faith composes the life of the inner part of the understanding, see 2701, 4403-4421, 4523-4534.

[2] Anyone who does not know that 'the eye' is used in the Word to mean the understanding cannot know what the meaning is of the things which the Lord spoke concerning the eye in the Gospels, first of all these,

If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes, to be cast into the Gehenna of fire. Matthew 5:29; Mark 9:47.

Everyone recognizes that the eye should not be plucked out even if it does cause a person to stumble, and that no one enters the kingdom of God with only one eye. But 'the right eye' means falsity in a person's belief about the Lord; this is what must be plucked out. Then there are these things spoken by the Lord,

The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light. If your eye is evil your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! Matthew 6:22-23; Luke 11:34.

Nor is 'the eye' used here to mean the eye, but an understanding composed of the truth of faith. This is why the eye is called 'the lamp of the body' and why the Lord says, 'If the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!' For 'darkness' in the spiritual sense is falsities constituting faith, 1839, 1860, 4418, 4531, 7688, 7711.

[3] There are these words too spoken by Him,

Why do you notice the speck which is in your brother's eye, but do not consider the plank that is in your own eye? Matthew 7:3-5.

'Noticing a speck in a brother's eye' means seeing something erroneous in a person's understanding of truth; 'the plank in one's own eye' is huge evil of falsity, since 'wood' in the internal sense means good and in the contrary sense evil, 643, 2784, 2812, 3720, 8354. Good is also represented in the next life by a plank, which is why those who pretend to have good within themselves are seen carrying a plank, walking in safety as they do so. If 'eye' and 'plank' did not have these meanings, would 'seeing a plank in an eye' have any meaning at all? If it is not known that 'eye' in the Word means the understanding of truth, which is faith, neither can it be known what is implied by the Lord's action when He healed the blind man,

He spat on the ground and made clay with His saliva, and said to him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam. John 9:6-7.

Since all the Lord's miracles, like all Divine miracles, had to do with those things that belong to the Lord's kingdom and the Church, 7337, 8364, so did this miracle too.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.