The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #117
117. Internal Meaning of Jeremiah, Chapter 51
Of those who by traditions or reasonings from the natural man have perverted the truths and goods of the church, who are here meant by Babylon. (3)
1-4 All truths of doctrine with them will be destroyed. (3)
5 The Jewish church is such, and is against the Lord. (3)
6 Let them beware of such. (3)
7-10 Those who are there are vastated by such things, and they do not refrain. (3)
11-13 They pervert truths and goods, which they have in abundance. (2, 3)
14-18 They have the Word so that they can be wise, but they falsify it. (2)
19-23 When the judgment overtakes them from the Lord, all things appertaining to them, from firsts to lasts, are to be scattered. (15)
24-26 Their destruction will come, because they have destroyed everything of the church. (15)
27-29 They will seize upon falsities of every kind. (3)
30-32 Hence they will no longer have any power. (2)
33 Her last time is coming. (15, 17)
34-40 They will perish because they have destroyed the church. (15, 2)
41-44 They will be destroyed by mere falsities. (15)
45-50 Let them not come near those who are of the church, lest they perish together with them. (15)
51-53 They cannot resist, however much they trust in themselves. (15, 3)
54-58 Those who trust in their own falsities will come to nothing and will be destroyed. (15)
59-61 This is told to those who in the church have been taken captive by such, and who have become Babylon. 15 (15)
Chaldea
Chaldea was a land lying along the Euphrates river near its mouth, south of Babylon, part of what is now southern Iraq. It was a land of the Lord's second great church, the Ancient Church, which at its height had a wealth of knoweldge through its own sacred scriptures and the correspondences of nature. But as this church declined Chaldea came to represent people who use truths for evil purposes and thus profane and falsify them. Abram was born in Chaldea because of the greatness it had represented, but had to leave because of what it had become.
