214. 他们被称为 “赤身的”, 因为他们只剩下自我, 只剩下自我的人, 不再有聪明, 智慧, 信德, 在真理和良善上是 “赤裸的”, 故已落入恶中.

Chaldea was a land lying along the Euphrates river near its mouth, south of Babylon, part of what is now southern Iraq. It was a land of the Lord's second great church, the Ancient Church, which at its height had a wealth of knoweldge through its own sacred scriptures and the correspondences of nature. But as this church declined Chaldea came to represent people who use truths for evil purposes and thus profane and falsify them. Abram was born in Chaldea because of the greatness it had represented, but had to leave because of what it had become.