Verses:
1-3:
Those who pervert the doctrine of the church: they will also fall into falsities in outermost things.
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4-6:
They worship in externals according to the statutes, which will be similar [to genuine worship], but only in outermost things.
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7, 8:
Some things true will remain, when the rest are false, in consequence of which truths will have no power.
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9:
Afterward all things of the church are falsified,
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10, 11:
and finally they are profaned by sensual knowledges [scientifica], the profanation extending to all things of the church, so that there is hardly anything left.
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12, 13:
Exhortation to turn themselves to the Lord.
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