Verses 1-3. REVELATION is made concerning the state of the Church, as being vastated as to truth, because separated from all good, through adulteration of the Word.

Verses 3, 4. The Word teaches that men ought to shun evils as sins against GOD, and believe in the LORD'S Divine Human [principle].

Verses 5-7. In which case the humble shall be replenished with all good, and the proud, or lofty, shall be brought into desolation; the evil of ignorance also shall be turned into good, and the falses of ignorance into truths, and the proprium of man shall receive Divine illumination.

Verse 7. Because all will be taught, that of themselves they are nothing but infernal evil, and that they ought to explore the light which would make it manifest.

Verse 8. And to renounce their natural corruptions, and not to depend upon external sanctification, which may be communicated to those who are in false principles.

Verse 9. But to apply the Divine Truths of the Word to the removal of selfish and worldly love, otherwise they will perish eternally.

Verses 10-15. And to impart the knowledge of truth and of good to such as are in ignorance j also to he just in all their dealings; and when brought into spiritual combat, not to be fretful and impatient, but to wait patiently for its good effects.

Verses 15-19. For that by the baptism of John the Church was only inaugurated in the knowledges of truth from the Word, and thus prepared to receive the Lord, whereas the LORD Himself regenerates men by Divine Truth and Divine good proceeding from Himself, from whom alone comes radical purification of the human will, through conjunction of goods and truths with heaven, and the removal of all evils and falses into hell.

Verses 19, 20. Yet blessed and holy as this doctrine is, it is altogether rejected by those who are in evil, because it bears witness against them.

Verses 21, 22. That the LORD, as to His Human essence, submits to be initiated into the external truths of the Word, on which occasion interior truths and goods were manifested, even to the Divine truth itself, and also to the Divine Good.

Verses 23 to the end. Thus He attained a full state of remains, by which He united the Human essence to the Divine, and made it Divine, although it was supposed to be merely human.