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第14章
1
Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.
2
Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, "Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good: so we offer our lips like bulls.
3
Assyria can't save us. We won't ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, 'Our gods!' for in you the fatherless finds mercy."
4
"I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from him.
5
I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon.
6
His branches will spread, and his beauty will be like the olive tree, and his fragrance like Lebanon.
7
Men will dwell in his shade. They will revive like the grain, and blossom like the vine. Their fragrance will be like the wine of Lebanon.
8
Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols? I answer, and will take care of him. I am like a green fir tree; from me your fruit is found."
9
Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.
