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.

In Deuteronomy 10:16, this signifies the evils of filthy loves and the falsities they spawn. (Arcana Coelestia 2039[3])