The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 88
88. Internal Meaning of Jeremiah, Chapter 22
1-2 To those in the church who possess a knowledge [scientia] of things. (2, 10)
3 If they do according to the truths of the Word and the knowledge [scientia] they possess, and do not pervert these, they will have intelligence. (2)
5-6 Otherwise all of their intelligence will perish, (2, 2)
7-9 and everything pertaining to their knowledge [scientia], because they have separated themselves from the Lord. (2)
10 There is no restitution. (2)
11-12 The church no longer consists of such, (2)
13-14 because they have made a religion for themselves by reasonings from falsities. (2)
15-16 Those who were before them in the church were not of such a character; (2)
17 but they perverted the church by falsities of every kind. (3)
18-19 There can be no pity, but they must be cast out as profane. (3)
20-21 They are unwilling to give heed to the Word, (3)
22 because they have been imbued with falsities of religion. (3)
23-24 They can have no protection through the Word, howsoever they acknowledge it with their lips. (3, 15, 4)
25-27 They will come among those who profane the Word, and by means of it make for themselves a religion that is contrary to the truths of the church, from which religion they cannot recede. (3)
28-30 They have not a truth which has not been perverted and profaned. (3)
Jeremiah 21:7
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Afterward, says Yahweh, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, even such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life: and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.
