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1-3:
Of the natural man who, in things Divine, trusts nothing but His knowledges [scientifica].
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4, 5:
Such will pervert the truths of the church by applying their knowledges to falsities.
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6, 7:
Because truths have been perverted in this manner, all power, which is of truth, has been destroyed in their case,
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8-12:
and all truth will be utterly devastated, until they will no longer have truth.
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13-16:
Nevertheless something of a church will be established out of those who are natural and in knowledges [scientifica].
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17-18:
Reasonings from knowledges [scientifica] of the natural man will not destroy knowledges [cognitiones] of truth with them;
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19, 20:
but these will be destroyed by reasonings from the natural man with those who trust knowledges [scientifica] alone, and have perverted the truths of the church.
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21:
Those who are of the church that the Lord will establish will have truths of doctrine.
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