Verses:
1-3:
Those who are of the Jewish church worship the Lord with the mouth and not with the heart.
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4:
The first of them, that is, their fathers.
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4-9:
They worshipped other gods, and did not depart from them, however much admonished, because they were natural external; this concerning them when in Egypt.
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10-12:
They were let into temptations, and then instructed. Also, respecting conjunction of the Lord with the church.
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13:
And they cannot even thus be brought to the worship of the Lord.
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14-17:
Although they were of such a character, yet they were not cast off.
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18-20:
Their offspring were instructed in like manner.
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21-24:
They in like manner reprobated all things of the church.
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25, 26:
In consequence they had representatives different from the former good ones, because they had profaned them; this concerning them in the wilderness.
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27-29:
When they had been introduced into the land of Canaan, they worshipped other gods in every way.
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30, 31:
They profaned things holy.
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32-36:
They are to be cast out of the church, because they have been such from the beginning.
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37-39:
They will not return to the church, but will be among the profaners of the holy things of the church.
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40-42:
A new church will be instituted, which will worship the Lord,
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43, 44:
and they will acknowledge their evils, and at the same time the Lord's mercy.
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45, 46:
The church has perished by reason of falsities. An external or natural church, which is able to be in the light of truth.
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47, 48:
It is destroyed by evil love.
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49:
It is the Jewish nation, which is here further treated of.
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