Verses:
1:
Reciprocal grief and lamentation that the time is so long drawn out before a new church consisting of others can be established.
[11]
2, 3:
In the church is nothing but what is falsified and evil therefrom, because they depart from the Lord.
[3]
4-6:
One falsity comes from another even until there is nothing but falsity in which they are.
[3]
7, 8:
When they are being taught they feign that they wish it, but they do not.
[3]
9:
Must they not perish?
[3]
10-12:
Grief because of the destruction of all things of the church, even until nothing remains.
[3]
13-15:
Because they have repudiated the Word, and have obeyed their own lusts, they are in falsities of evil;
[3]
16:
and therefore they will be destroyed by evils, and falsities therefrom.
[3]
17-19:
Lamentation over devastation.
[3]
20, 21:
Lamentation that from this there is destruction,
[3]
22:
because they have infernal evil and falsity.
[3]
23, 24:
Let it be known that everything of truth and good, and hence everything of power and wisdom, is from acknowledgment of the Lord.
[15, 11]
25, 26:
The Coming of the Lord to judgment upon all who are in externals without internals.
[15]