A church cannot serve two masters. It cannot peacefully coexist with truths and falsities. To want to live with both and to seek a compromise will cause the church to be laid to waste. The church will perish, and the goods and truths of the Word will be taken away from it.

'A lion' signifies the good of celestial love and the truth from that good.

(Referencias: Arcana Coelestia 6367, Genesis 49:8-12)