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1 CONVIÉRTETE, oh Israel, á Jehová tu Dios: porque por tu pecado has caído.

2 Tomad con vosotros palabras, y convertíos á Jehová, y decidle: Quita toda iniquidad, y acepta el bien, y daremos becerros de nuestros labios.

3 No nos librará Assur; no subiremos sobre caballos, ni nunca más diremos á la obra de nuestras manos: Dioses nuestros: porque en ti el huérfano alcanzará misericordia.

4 Yo medicinaré su rebelión, amarélos de voluntad: porque mi furor se apartó de ellos.

5 Yo seré á Israel como rocío; él florecerá como lirio, y extenderá sus raíces como el Líbano.

6 Extenderse han sus ramos, y será su gloria como la de la oliva, y olerá como el Líbano.

7 Volverán, y se sentarán bajo de su sombra: serán vivificados como trigo, y florecerán como la vid: su olor, como de vino del Líbano.

8 Ephraim dirá: ¿Qué más tendré ya con los ídolos? Yo lo oiré, y miraré; yo seré á él como la haya verde: de mí será hallado tu fruto.

9 ¿Quién es sabio para que entienda esto, y prudente para que los sepa? Porque los caminos del Jehová son derechos, y los justos andarán por ellos: mas los rebeldes en ellos caerán.

   

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'Lebanon' signifies spiritual good. It also signifies the church regarding the perception of truth from the rational self.

(Referenser: Arcana Coelestia 10261)


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Arcana Coelestia #6376

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6376. 'And the foal of his she-ass to the outstanding vine' means truth from the rational for the internal Church. This is clear from the meaning of 'the vine' as the spiritual Church, dealt with in 1069, 5113, so that 'the outstanding vine' means the internal Church (for the internal part of the Church is more outstanding than the external part of it); and from the meaning of 'the foal of a she-ass' as rational truth, dealt with in 2781. The external part of the Church is distinct and separate from the internal, in that it is located in the natural, thus in the external man, whereas the internal part is located in the rational, thus in the internal man. Members of the external Church are governed by truth, those of the internal Church by good. The former are motivated not so much by the good of charity as they are by the truth of faith, whereas the latter are motivated by the good of charity and from this by the truth of faith. Members of the internal Church are the ones meant by 'the outstanding vine', but members of the external Church are the ones meant by 'the vine'.

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