2313. The first state of that Church: people have the good of charity and acknowledge the Lord; and from Him they are strengthened in good, verses 1-3, and are saved, verse 12. The second state: with those people evils start to react against goods, but they are powerfully withheld from evils and maintained in goods by the Lord, verses 14-16; their helplessness is described, verse 18; they are saved, verse 19. The third state: they no longer think and act from an affection for good but from an affection for truth, verses 18-20; and they are saved, verse 23. The fourth state: the affection for truth perishes, meant by Lot's wife becoming a pillar of salt, verse 26. The fifth state: impure good, or good enveloped in falsity, supersedes, meant by Lot in the mountain-cave, verse 30. The sixth state: even this good is adulterated and falsified further still, verses 31-33, and truth equally so, verses 34-35. From this some semblance of a Church is conceived and born, whose good, so-called, is Moab, and whose truth, also so-called, is the son of Ammon, verses 36-38.