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Zephaniah

228.Zephaniah Chapter 1 1-3 All knowledge [cognitio] and understanding of truth will perish. 2 4-6 The church will perish because it is in mere falsities and evils in respect to doctrine and in respect to worship. 2 7, 8 The Lord will come and gather [people] together to the church. 1 9-11 Then those who have adulterated the truths of the Word will perish, and are to be cast into hell. 15 12-13 No truth will then be left in the church. 3 14-17 They will perish on the day of the judgment by the Lord. 15 18 They cannot be preserved. 15

229.Chapter 2 [Zephaniah] 1-3 They ought to be converted before the Lord comes to judgment, 15 4-6 for the evil will then perish on account of evils and falsities of many kinds. 15 7 Then some are to be saved. 16[?17] 8-10 Those who have adulterated the Word will utterly perish. 15, 3 11 They will perish that whoever is able may acknowledge the Lord. 15, 3 12-15 Those who have falsified the knowledges [cognitiones] of truth, by means of reasonings and knowledges [scientifica], and have thus destroyed the church, will utterly perish. 15, 3

230.Chapter 3 [Zephaniah] 1-4 Everything of the doctrine of truth and good has been perverted. 3 5 When the Lord comes He will investigate. 1 6-8 The evil will perish and are to be cast into hell. 15 9, 10 Then a new church made up of those who acknowledge the Lord will arise. 11 11, 12 Those who are in falsities of evil must be separated, and thus the few must be saved. 11, 16-[?17] 13-20 Then there will be a new church of those who will acknowledge the Lord, and He will remove evils and falsities from them; concerning this church. 11