226. Internal Meaning of Habakkuk, Chapter 2

1-3 The Coming of the Lord-what will then take place. (1)

4-5 The love of self-it grows, and man grows vile therefrom. (3)

6-7 He is held in contempt by others, (3)

8 and they pervert the goods and truths of the church. (3)

9-10 They are in their own intelligence, owing to which they are puffed up. (3)

11 They judge from externals alone. (3)

12-13 A curse rests upon those who hatch doctrine out of falsities. (3)

14 When the Lord comes, (1, 7)

15-17 he who leads others astray will then be ashamed, (3, 11)

18-19 and falsities will then profit Him nothing. (3)

20 This, when the Lord is in His Human. (1, 3)