205. Internal Meaning of Amos, Chapter 5

1-3 Lamentation over the church because it has been successively devastated. (2)

4-9 Exhortation to seek the Lord, that all things of the church may not perish through evils and falsities. (2)

10-13 They reject truths because they are in self-intelligence. (2)

14-15 Exhortation to be converted. (2)

16-20 Lamentation over the destruction of the church, and over their own destruction, when the Lord comes. (3)

21-22 Their worship cannot be accepted. (2)

23-25 It will be accepted if they have good and truth. (2)

26-27 Otherwise they are deprived of all knowledge [cognitio] of truth and good. (2)