Verses:
1, 2:
He should represent the falsities of the church, and the church besieged by them.
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3:
He should represent the hardness of their heart, from which it is that they have no fear;
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4-8:
he should also represent the church besieged by falsities of evil and evils of falsity.
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9-16:
He should represent the falsification and adulteration of the sense of the letter of the Word,
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17:
by which everything of the church has perished.
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