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Haggai

231.Haggai Chapter 1 Verses 1-4 They believe that the Messiah will come to exalt them to glory, and yet the church among them has been devastated. 1, 3 5, 6 They could no longer be taught by the Word. 3 7-9 The church cannot be instituted among them, because everyone looks to Himself and not to the Lord; 3 10, 11 therefore no truth or good can be received by them. 3 12-15 The church will be instituted among those who are wise from the Word. 11

232.Chapter 2 [Haggai] 1-3 The church when first instituted was full of truths; at the present day it is devastated. 2 4, 5 Nevertheless a church will be instituted. 11 6-9 When the Lord comes into the world, this church will be an interior church. 1 10-14 An external without an internal is of no use, and still less when the external has been falsified; so is it in the former church, 3 15-17 where truth has been turned into falsity, in which there is hardly anything of the church, 3 18, 19 although there are truths in abundance in the Word.3 20-22 All things of the former church will be destroyed. 3 23 The church will be among others. 11