Verse 15. That if any one unknowingly violates the Divine law in internal worship, apparently, from love or good, still he shall acknowledge the Lord and worship Him from the good of innocence in the internal or spiritual degree, uncontaminated with evil, according to the quality of spiritual truths with him, to which good is conjoined, in order that guilt may be removed.

1262. From this it now becomes clear that 'the earth' here also means the Church; for when the earth is mentioned, one's only perception is of the nation or people there, and when a nation or people is envisaged one's only perception is of their character. Consequently 'the earth' means nothing other than the Church, as shown already in 662, 1066.