Verses:
1, 2:
There was nothing in it but falsity and evil.
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3-6:
It was forsaken by the Lord from the beginning, because it was without anything of the church.
[2]
7-12:
After a time truths and goods of every kind and species were given to it through the Word, and thus evils and falsities were removed.
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13, 14:
Thus it could have been in intelligence.
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15-20:
It falsified all things of the Word.
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21, 22:
It extinguished truths and goods, and became as in the beginning.
[2]
23-25:
It turned truths into falsities
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26-28:
by knowledges [scientifica] of the natural man, by traditions, and by reasonings from them,
[2]
29, 30:
finally profaning [truths].
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31:
It exalted itself above all men.
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32-34:
It obtruded its falsities on others.
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35-42:
They will utterly perish by the falsities by which the truths of the Word have been destroyed.
[3]
43-45:
Thus they will be as in the beginning.
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46-52:
The like has come to pass with the Israelitish church, but in a less degree.
[3]
53-55:
Nevertheless the church in general shall be restored.
[11]
56-58:
It is everywhere better than in the Jewish church.
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59-63:
A new church is to be instituted among others.
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