Verses:
1, 2:
To those in the church who possess a knowledge [scientia] of things.
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3, 4:
If they do according to the truths of the Word and the knowledge [scientia] they possess, and do not pervert these, they will have intelligence.
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5, 6:
Otherwise all of their intelligence will perish,
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7-9:
and everything pertaining to their knowledge [scientia], because they have separated themselves from the Lord.
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10:
There is no restitution.
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11, 12:
The church no longer consists of such,
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13, 14:
because they have made a religion for themselves by reasonings from falsities.
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15, 16:
Those who were before them in the church were not of such a character;
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17:
but they perverted the church by falsities of every kind.
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18, 19:
There can be no pity, but they must be cast out as profane.
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20, 21:
They are unwilling to give heed to the Word,
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22:
because they have been imbued with falsities of religion.
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23, 24:
They can have no protection through the Word, howsoever they acknowledge it with their lips.
[3, 15]
25-27:
They will come among those who profane the Word, and by means of it make for themselves a religion that is contrary to the truths of the church, from which religion they cannot recede.
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28-30:
They have not a truth which has not been perverted and profaned.
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