Verse 1. But now there is investigation by Divine Truth and Divine Good concerning those who are in the affection of truth without truths, the origin of which is the fear of the Lord grounded in obscurity as to knowledge, this fear being derived from the man who is in the beginning of regeneration, as to the understanding formed from the will of the natural man, which again has its origin in the new will of the spiritual man mediately through his new understanding, and thus from the Lord, through the celestial of the spiritual principle as distinguishing the Spiritual Church. And the quality of this affection is that it is weak for the want of truths; is distinctly elevated above merely natural good; is disposed strongly to confirm truth in general, and to abide in it; is thus further disposed to be governed by this truth; and what is more than all to have genuine delight therein.