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 44:20-23
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Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men, and to the women, even to all the people who had given him an answer, saying,
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The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, didn't Yahweh remember them, and didn't it come into his mind?
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so that Yahweh could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed; therefore your land has become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.
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Because you have burned incense, and because you have sinned against Yahweh, and have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil has happened to you, as it is this day.
