2 Reis 25:4

Verse 4. And then the doctrine of the church is corrupted; and those who suffer infestations and temptations are in states of obscurity, between truth on the one hand and falsity on the other, derived from the perversion of the literal sense of the Word, and the denial of the Lord, through falsities from evil, and especially through falsities springing from the love of dominion, the essential truth being rejected to externals.