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The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #196
196. Internal Meaning of Hosea, Chapter 13
1-3 From their self-intelligence they have perverted all Divine worship, and hence will perish, (2)
4 yet the Lord alone is God. (16)
5-6 When they became rich in knowledges [cognitiones] from the Word, they forsook the Lord by reason of their self-glorification. (2)
7-9 Hence their destruction, (3)
10-11 because there is no longer any truth of the church. (3)
12-13 The truth of the church has been interiorly destroyed. (3, 17)
14-15 They are to be kept from destruction, until all truth of the church has been destroyed. (2)
Hosea 13:14-15
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I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? "Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.
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Though he is fruitful among his brothers, an east wind will come, the breath of Yahweh coming up from the wilderness; and his spring will become dry, and his fountain will be dried up. He will plunder the storehouse of treasure.
