Verse 15. Who led you through those states of temptation in which there was a great and terrible void of all spiritual sustenance and hope, when the soul was oppressed by evil desires, evil deeds, and delusive errors and longings for a guidance, but where none was to be found (wilderness of the serpent, the flying serpent and the scorpion; of thirst, where there were no waters, Arcana Coelestia 8568); who brought forth the living waters of truth out of the fundamental principle of belief and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ as the one only God;