3270. 'In their villages' means the external aspects of the Church. This is clear from the meaning of 'villages' as those things which constitute the external aspects of faith, and so of the Church. The external aspects of the Church are its religious observances, its internal aspects matters of doctrine when the latter are not matters of knowledge but of life. External aspects were represented by 'villages' because these lay outside cities, whereas internal aspects were represented by the cities themselves - 'cities' meaning matters of doctrine, see 402, 2268, 2449, 2712, 2943, 3216.
