Verse 1. These are the changes of state through which the man of the Spiritual Church passes, when he is delivered from the bondage of the merely natural man, by means of Divine Truths in their ordination and arrangement, in subordination to the power of Divine Truth and Divine Good:

2450. 'And all the plain' means all the things which belonged to those truths. This is clear from the meaning of 'a plain' as everything that constitutes doctrinal teaching, and so everything that belongs to truths, dealt with in 2418.