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Hosea第8章:3

³ Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.

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Israel

'The children of Israel,' in Isaiah 14:2, signify the Gentiles.

In Jeremiah 23:8, 'Israel' represents the spiritual natural church.

(参考: Apocalypse Explained 768)

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Jeremiah第2章:21

²¹ Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?