Verses:
1-7:
Song in praise of the Lord and of His works for the establishment of the church.
[11, 16]
8-15:
The establishment of the church in the beginning, and her protection from falsities of evils.
[11]
16:
When there was no longer any truth,
[3]
17, 18:
the Lord came, and they afflicted Him;
[4]
19-22:
but He afterwards became the God of heaven and earth.
[10]
23, 24:
Hence those who were of the church were natural, and in knowledges [scientifica];
[11]
25-36:
therefore their natural has been purged of falsities and evils of every kind, which infested; these here treated of;
[11]
37-41:
afterwards truth and good, and protection from falsities, are granted them,
[11]
42-45:
and He causes them to be a church.
[11]