Verses:
1-3:
About those who adulterate the good of the sense of the letter of the Word: these destroy the good and truth of the church.
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4, 5:
About those who destroy the celestial things of the Word: they destroy both its celestial and its spiritual things.
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6-8:
About those who destroy the spiritual things of the church: these go away in consequence into falsities of every kind.
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9-11:
The Lord entirely removed falsities of evil when the church was instituted among them, and they were instructed.
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13-16:
Nevertheless that church perverted all things, and hence it has become like one who has truth and yet is without truth, and thus perishes in the time of judgment.
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