Verses:
1-3:
The church established among the ancients: Its primitive state when it was defended from falsities and evils.
[11, 2]
4-6:
For no reason they departed from Him who had led and protected them,
[2]
7, 8:
and had taught them all things of the church, which they nevertheless perverted, both its truths and its goods, by departing from the Lord.
[2]
9:
Still He will teach them with difficulty.
[2]
10, 11:
No nation has changed its religion as they have done.
[4]
12, 13:
It is horrible, their rejecting the Lord, and their hatching falsities of doctrine for themselves.
[4]
14, 15:
Consequently the church and its doctrine have been devastated
[3]
16:
by falsities out of the natural man.
[3]
17:
This has taken place because they have rejected the Lord
[4, 3]
18:
by means of knowledges [scientifica] and reasonings.
[4, 3]
19, 20:
They draw punishments upon themselves, because they have separated themselves from the Lord, and have worshipped things infernal,
[4]
21:
and even though genuine truths have been given to them, yet they have become such.
[3]
22, 23:
Howsoever they may worship in like ways in externals, yet interiorly they are infernal.
[3]
24, 25:
They desire eagerly to be in falsities and evils, and shun truths and goods.
[3]
26, 27:
Evils and falsities are their worship.
[3]
28:
This is true of all of them.
[3]
29, 30:
They are not willing to return, even when chastised.
[3]
31, 32:
Nevertheless they have not been forsaken by the Lord, but they have forsaken Him.
[3]
33, 34, 35:
They fight to confirm falsities and evils by falsifications of the Word.
[3]
36:
And they have confirmed them by reasonings from the natural man.
[3]
37:
And yet confirmations are of no avail.
[3]