Verse 44. These false and evil principles shall distort and influence what is good and true in your mind, and the latter shall not influence and control the former: the false and the evil shall rule in you, and the good that you hadst shall be abased beneath them.

6428. 'By the God of your father, who will help you' means that He was the God of the Ancient Church. This is clear from the representation of Jacob, to whom 'father' refers here, as the Ancient Church, dealt with in 4439, 4514, 4680, 4772. This Church was the spiritual Church, in which they worshipped the Lord, who is meant here by the God of the Ancient Church, the source of help in the conflicts spoken of immediately above.