Verses:
1-7:
That the truth of the church would gradually perish by means of reasonings from the natural man, was represented by the "girdle of linen."
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8-11:
The like has come to pass with the church where the Word is, where they have backslidden from the Lord, and consequently from truths;
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12, 13:
and afterwards there were falsities for truths,
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14:
and consequent destruction.
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15, 16:
Let them beware lest mere falsity take the place of truth.
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17:
Grief on this account.
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18, 19:
It may be seen that all truth of the Word perishes.
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20:
Falsities take the place of truth.
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21:
Hence destruction is at hand.
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22:
The cause of this is, that they are interiorly evil and hence become also outwardly evil.
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23:
It cannot be otherwise;
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24, 25:
therefore destruction visits them, because they have forsaken the Lord, and hence they have falsities;
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26, 27:
and in consequence their interiors, which are evil, will be laid open.
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