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The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 198

198. Internal Meaning of Joel, Chapter 1

1-3 To all who are of the church. (2)

4 Falsity from the sensual man and afterwards evil therefrom has consumed all things of the church. (2, 15)

5-7 Let them repent, for evil from the sensual man has destroyed the different things of the church. (2)

8-13 Mourning over the destruction of the goods and truths of the church. (2)

14 Exhortation to be converted, (2)

15 and to reflect that thus will be the last time, when the Lord will come, (1)

16-17 and that everything of the church has been devastated; (3)

18-20 for which reason there is lamentation. (3)

Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for the permission to use this translation.