Verses:
1, 2:
Truth and good and life are no longer in them,
[2, 3]
3:
because they have falsified and adulterated them,
[3]
4:
speaking against the Divine.
[3]
5:
They love all falsities whatsoever, and destroy all truths whatsoever,
[3]
6:
and worship those things that come from their own intelligence,
[3]
7:
and extol doctrine derived therefrom even to worshipping it,
[3]
8:
and have published it before all, and have extended it to falsities of every kind,
[3]
9:
and call them heavenly goods and truths, and adore them with all submission.
[3]
10:
They have not retracted, because this was from their own intelligence.
[3, 4]
11, 12:
This they have done because they have not consulted the Lord, who might teach them.
[3, 4]
13, 14:
Falsities will destroy them; it is otherwise with those who so love the Lord that He may teach them truths and remove falsities.
[3, 11]
15:
The Lord does this with those who are humble at heart;
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16, 17:
he is not able to do this for those who are wise from what is their own [proprium],
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18, 19:
but only for those who grieve over it,
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20, 21:
not with those who bring forth from their natural nothing but evils and falsities, from which they are never removed.
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