Verses:
1, 2:
Exhortation to refrain from evils and to acknowledge the Lord, from whom those who are in goods and truths will have salvation.
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3, 4:
Unless they refrain and turn back, they will utterly perish.
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5, 6:
Those who will acknowledge must be removed while the destruction lasts,
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7:
because devastation of all things of the church is at hand,
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8:
which does not come to an end through outward mourning,
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9, 10:
nor through complaints that they are perishing, although it is said in the Word that they shall be saved.
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11, 12:
It is answered that they are not willing to acknowledge and receive.
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13:
Falsities are breaking in.
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14, 15:
Corruption of the church.
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16:
in respect to doctrine,
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17:
in respect to the Word.
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18-21:
Lamentation thereat.
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22:
There is no longer any understanding of truth.
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22-27:
All things of the church have been destroyed, even until nothing remains,
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28, 29:
and the church has become none.
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30:
The things of the church could not have been restored among them in any way.
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31:
Despair of those of whom the new church will consist.
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