Verses:
1-3:
Lamentation over the church because it has been successively devastated.
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4-9:
Exhortation to seek the Lord, that all things of the church may not perish through evils and falsities.
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10-13:
They reject truths because they are in self-intelligence.
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14, 15:
Exhortation to be converted.
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16-20:
Lamentation over the destruction of the church, and over their own destruction, when the Lord comes.
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21, 22:
Their worship cannot be accepted.
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23-25:
It will be accepted if they have good and truth.
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26, 27:
Otherwise they are deprived of all knowledge [cognitio] of truth and good.
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