Verses:
1, 2:
Those who are in the mere sense of the letter of the Word, and in a worship therefrom which is external without an internal, are meant by "Gog."
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3-7:
Everything and all things of that worship will perish.
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8-16:
That worship will possess the church, and will vastate it, and it will thus be in externals without internals.
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17-19:
The state of the church will therefore be changed.
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20-23:
And the truths and goods of religion will perish in consequence, and falsities will succeed in their place.
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