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 Isaiah 21:13, this signifies to be no longer in goods and thus desolate. (Arcana Coelestia 3240[4])

In Deuteronomy 19:5, this signifies to bring doctrines under discussion, for a forest signifies what is religious. (Arcana Coelestia 9011[4])