The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 110
441Chapter 44 [Jeremiah]
1-6 Much of the church perished by departure from the Lord and by falsities of every kind. (3)
7-10 Now nearly all things left perish by means of knowledges [scientifica] of the natural man, nor do they refrain for fear of destruction, (3)
11-14 because they consult knowledges, and thus there is scarcely any residue. (3, 3)
15-19 They make themselves obstinate, and love things that have been falsified by knowledges. (3)
20-23 Their destruction in consequence of this foretold, (3)
24-27 even until nothing of the church was left, (3)
29-30 True knowledges [scientifica vera] are perverted by reasonings therefrom. (3)
Jeremiah 43:1-3
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It happened that, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking to all the people all the words of Yahweh their God, with which Yahweh their God had sent him to them, even all these words,
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then spoke Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying to Jeremiah, You speak falsely: Yahweh our God has not sent you to say, You shall not go into Egypt to live there;
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but Baruch the son of Neriah sets you on against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may put us to death, and carry us away captive to Babylon.
