Verses 1-16. Concerning the worship of the Lord outwardly in various states of heaven and the church, namely, that it increases in fullness and intensity according to the degree in which the good of innocence increases, beginning in the inmost, descending also to the interior, and finally occupying the external man, and thus every degree of man's life.

Verses 17-21. Concerning the appropriation of good, when it is confirmed and established in the heavenly state, that then it is fully vivified from the Lord both by acknowledgement and perception.

Verses 22-31. Concerning errors through ignorance or inadvertence, and amendment in consequence, through the worship of the Lord by consecration to Him, and for the removal of the evil in order that the external man may be fully harmonized with the internal, and the whole man with the Lord.

Verses 32-36. Concerning the claiming of merit, even when man is in a prevailing state of good and truth conjoined, and the method of its removal and rejection.

Verses 37-41. And concerning the study of the Word in its literal sense in order that its particulars may be known, imbibed and practised; and in order that all merely selfish love and intelligence by which its truths are continually falsified may be removed.