Verses:
1-3:
The Coming of the Lord-what will then take place.
[1]
4, 5:
The love of self-it grows, and man grows vile therefrom.
[3]
6, 7:
He is held in contempt by others,
[3]
8:
and they pervert the goods and truths of the church.
[3]
9, 10,:
They are in their own intelligence, owing to which they are puffed up.
[3]
11:
They judge from externals alone.
[3]
12, 13:
A curse rests upon those who hatch doctrine out of falsities.
[3]
14:
When the Lord comes,
[1]
15-17:
he who leads others astray will then be ashamed,
[3]
18, 19:
and falsities will then profit Him nothing.
[3]
20:
This, when the Lord is in His Human.
[1, 3]