Verses:
1, 2:
They have departed and falsified truths.
[2]
3:
They are unwilling to understand truths.
[2]
4, 5:
They have merely acknowledged the Word outwardly in the letter, and not even with the Word [in mind], but with falsities.
[2]
6, 7:
The church in respect to truths, has falsified truths, and has not been willing to be reformed.
[2]
7-9:
The celestial church, that is, the church in respect to good, has done likewise; as the spiritual church has falsified truths, so the celestial church has adulterated goods.
[2]
10, 11:
They worship falsities of evil, and have perverted goods more than truths.
[2]
12-14:
Exhortation to reject falsity and to receive truth, that there may be conjunction and a church,
[2, 11]
15:
and that there may then be knowledge [cognitio].
[11]
16, 17:
When the Lord comes there will no longer be the representative of a church, but a church, wherein the Lord Himself will be in place of that representative.
[1, 11]
18:
Then truth and good will make one.
[11]
19:
Those who will draw near shall be adopted as children by the Lord;
[11]
20, 21:
but the church has become perverted.
[3]
22-25:
Those who will be of the new church will acknowledge and confess that they have falsities and evils.
[11]