Verses:
1:
The Lord as to the Divine truth, or the Word, from which He has Divine power.
[1, 7]
2:
The Word has been wholly adulterated and destroyed.
[3]
3-6:
No one is in truths, and therefore the Lord alone has fought and conquered, that the faithful may obtain salvation.
[3, 7, 17]
7, 8:
This has been done from mercy, that those who wish to receive truth may be saved by Him,
[17]
9:
that He, from Divine love, might lead them.
[17]
10:
Those who were formerly of His church have turned away.
[17]
11-14:
Yet, before that church existed, He led men and protected them in the midst of hell.
[17]
15, 16:
Prayer to the Lord that He may have pity, because He alone has redeemed them.
[17, 16]
17, 18:
Otherwise they would have perished, and hell would have had dominion over them.
[17, 7]
19:
When the Lord comes there will be power.
[17, 7]