89. Internal Meaning of Jeremiah, Chapter 23

1-2 Against those who have perverted the good of the Word, and by means of it have destroyed the church, who are meant by the shepherds. (3)

3 They will perish, and the Lord will establish a church from others, who will teach and learn its good. (11)

5-6 The Lord will do this, and then those who are of His church will be saved. (11)

7-8 they will acknowledge that the Lord is Jehovah, and that the church is His. (16, 11)

9 Against those who pervert the truths of the Word, who are meant by the prophets. (3)

10 From their perversions the church is full of falsities and is perverted, (3)

11 and there is no longer truth or good, excepting such as is external. (3, 11)

12 Because they do not see truths, they perish on the day of judgment. (15, 3)

13 Truths are perverted by false principles, which are of religion. (3)

14 But the Word is perverted, this is the worst. (3, 11)

15 They will possess nothing but falsity, (3)

16-17 which they also confirm from the Word, (3, 11)

18 saying that it is Divine. (3)

19-20 They will perish on the day of judgment. (15)

21-22 They learn from themselves, and not from the Lord; if they learned from the Lord, they would depart from evils; (3)

23-24 thus the Lord would be with them. (3, 11)

25-26 They pervert by means of false interpretation. (3)

27 Hence they have no understanding of truth, (3)

28-29 because they have none from the Lord, who also is the Word, in which truth from Him makes itself manifest. (3)

30-31 Those who call themselves enlightened pervert truth still more, (3)

32 whereas they are not enlightened. (3)

33 The Divine truth shows that they have gone back. (3, 16)

34 He who says otherwise will suffer. (3)

35-36 Moreover they will not know what Divine truth is; (3)

37-40 and because they call that which is false, Divine truth, the truth of the church will be removed from them; hence their destruction. (3, 10)