The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 185
185. Internal Meaning of Hosea, Chapter 2
1-4 Exhortation to abstain from the falsifications of the Word, otherwise there will be no church, but it will be without goods and truths, as before. (11, 2)
5-7 They will become as before when they loved evil and falsity, but they will be withheld. (11, 2)
8 They will return to God whom they worshipped at that time, and from whom they received good, not knowing that this was from the Lord;, (11, 2)
9-13 but because they still did not worship Him, but another god, goods and truths will be vastated. (11, 2)
14-17 Those who will be of the new church, are to be purified by temptations, and prepared, (11)
18-20 and a new church constituted of such will come into existence, which will acknowledge the Lord. (11)
21-23 Then they will receive all things of heaven and the church. (11)
Hosea 2:5-7
5
For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; for she said, 'I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.'
6
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can't find her way.
7
She will follow after her lovers, but she won't overtake them; and she will seek them, but won't find them. Then she will say, 'I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.'