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Habakkuk

225.Habakkuk Chapter 1 Of violence and injustice. 3 1-5 Justice and truth perish. Grief on the part of the Lord, and directed to the Lord. 3 6-11 The Jewish church profaned all the truths and goods of the Word and of the church. 3 12-17 The Lord’s grief continued, that the evil prevail over the good, and destroy them. 3

226.Chapter 2 [Habakkuk] 1-3 The Coming of the Lord-what will then take place. 1 4, 5 The love of self-it grows, and man grows vile therefrom. 3 6, 7 He is held in contempt by others, 3 8 and they pervert the goods and truths of the church. 3 9, 10, They are in their own intelligence, owing to which they are puffed up. 3 11 They judge from externals alone. 3 12, 13 A curse rests upon those who hatch doctrine out of falsities. 3 14 When the Lord comes, 1 15-17 he who leads others astray will then be ashamed, 3 18, 19 and falsities will then profit Him nothing. 3 20 This, when the Lord is in His Human. 1, 3

227.Chapter 3 [Habakkuk] 1-4 Prediction that the Lord will come into the world, to whom belongs Divine truth and good. 1 5-7 He will examine the church; it is not a church. 3 8-9 He will by His Divine truth dissipate the falsities of evil. 3 10-15 Judgment upon them, combat with them, their destruction, and their being cast into hell. 15 16, 17 Grief on account of their state, that there is no longer anything of the church. 3 18, 19 Then those who at heart acknowledge the Lord will be saved. 17