The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #110
441Chapter 44 [Jeremiah]
1-6 Much of the church perished by departure from the Lord and by falsities of every kind. (3)
7-10 Now nearly all things left perish by means of knowledges [scientifica] of the natural man, nor do they refrain for fear of destruction, (3)
11-14 because they consult knowledges, and thus there is scarcely any residue. (3, 3)
15-19 They make themselves obstinate, and love things that have been falsified by knowledges. (3)
20-23 Their destruction in consequence of this foretold, (3)
24-27 even until nothing of the church was left, (3)
29-30 True knowledges [scientifica vera] are perverted by reasonings therefrom. (3)
Jeremiah 44:15-19
15
Then all the men who knew that their wives burned incense to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, even all the people who lived in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,
16
As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of Yahweh, we will not listen to you.
17
But we will certainly perform every word that is gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.
18
But since we left off burning incense to the queen of the sky, and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
19
When we burned incense to the queen of the sky, and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings to her, without our husbands?
