Verses:
1-3:
The church when first instituted was full of truths; at the present day it is devastated.
[2]
4, 5:
Nevertheless a church will be instituted.
[11]
6-9:
When the Lord comes into the world, this church will be an interior church.
[1]
10-14:
An external without an internal is of no use, and still less when the external has been falsified; so is it in the former church,
[3]
15-17:
where truth has been turned into falsity, in which there is hardly anything of the church,
[3]
18, 19:
although there are truths in abundance in the Word.
[3]
20-22:
All things of the former church will be destroyed.
[3]
23:
The church will be among others.
[11]