The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 71
71. Internal Meaning of Jeremiah, Chapter 5
1-2 There is no truth in doctrine or in the church, and if they believe, it is falsity. (2)
3 They were urged by punishments, but still they did not receive. (2)
4-5 This nonreception is due, not to simplicity, but to application and industry; (2, 10)
6 therefore all falsities and evils of falsity have broken in upon them. (2)
7-8 They have rejected all mercy, because they have perverted all truths and goods, which they had in all abundance. (2)
9-10 Therefore they cannot but perish, (2)
11-12 for they have acknowledged evils and falsities as goods and truths, because they have departed from the Lord, (2, 15)
13 and have annihilated the Word. (2)
14-17 Therefore infernal evil will invade them, and will still further destroy all the goods and truths of the church; (2)
19-20 This comes upon them because they have forsaken the Lord, (2)
21-24 and yet it is in their power to know that the Lord alone can do all things, but they are unwilling to know that He is God from whom are all truths and goods. (2, 11)
25-27 This has come to pass because it is delightful to them to pervert and deceive, (2)
27-28 and for this reason they are held in esteem. (2)
29 They cannot but perish, (3)
30-31 because all goods and truths from firsts to lasts have been perverted in such wise; also because all of them, from the highest to the lowest, do thus. (3, 16)
