Verses:
1-3:
From their self-intelligence they have perverted all Divine worship, and hence will perish,
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4:
yet the Lord alone is God.
[16]
5, 6:
When they became rich in knowledges [cognitiones] from the Word, they forsook the Lord by reason of their self-glorification.
[2]
7-9:
Hence their destruction,
[3]
10, 11:
because there is no longer any truth of the church.
[3]
12, 13:
The truth of the church has been interiorly destroyed.
[3]
14, 15:
They are to be kept from destruction, until all truth of the church has been destroyed.
[2]
16:
Those who have worshipped another god will perish.
[4]