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Zechariah

233.Zechariah Chapter 1 1-4 Those who were descended from Jacob were instructed in the things of the church, from the very beginning, but in vain. 2 5, 6 Therefore what happened to them was according to the Word. 2 7-10 The successive states of the church even to the end are represented, and the nature of their understanding of the Word is described. 2 11 It is found that there is no church. 2 12, 13 A new church which will be from the Lord. 11 14-16 The Lord will institute a new church when the former church has been completely perverted. 11, 3 17 He will institute it in place of the former. 11, 3 A new church from the Lord. 11 18-21 (H.B. 2:1-4) Falsities of evil which have destroyed everything of the church. 3

234.Chapter 2 [Zechariah] 1, 2 (H.B. 5, 6) Quality of the church about to be instituted, in respect to truth and good. 11 3-5 (H.B. 7-9) It will be vastly multiplied, and the Lord will be in it. 11 6-9 (H.B. 10-13) Those who have profaned holy things are to be separated and dispersed. 11, 3 10-13 (H.B. 14-17) The Lord will come, and those who are of the new church will acknowledge Him, and He will be with them. 1, 11

235.Chapter 3 [Zechariah] Of the new church. 11 1, 2 Infernal falsity from the former church will infest the new church which the Lord will establish. 11, 2 3-5 In this church there will be falsities of ignorance, which will be removed, and truths will be given in their place. 11 6-10 They will have understanding of truth from the Lord, to the extent in which they depart from falsities. 11

236.Chapter 4 [Zechariah] 1-7 Enlightenment of the new church by the Lord from the good of love by means of truth. 11 8-10 This is from the Lord. 11 11-14 There will also be in it truths from a celestial origin. 11

237.Chapter 5 [Zechariah] 1-4 Rejection of the Jewish church, because they have utterly perverted the church. 3 5-8 They have destroyed every good. 3 9-11 They will profane its truth still further. 3

238.Chapter 6 [Zechariah] 1-7 The doctrine of the new church from truths which are from the good of love and charity. 11 8 It will be with those who are in ignorance of truth. 11 9-14 A representative that the new church is from the Lord, with all the good and truth in it. 11 15 The church will be constituted of those who are without the church. 11

239.Chapter 7 [Zechariah] 1-7 The Jews desiring that after the Babylonish captivity the church might be with them, but this will not take place, because they have not turned away from falsities and evils. 2 8-11 They were told that they should keep the statutes, but they did not. 2 13, 14 Therefore the church will not be with them, but they will be dispersed. 2

240.Chapter 8 [Zechariah] 1-3 The Lord will institute a church in which will be the doctrine of truth and good, 11 4-6 where there will be wisdom and innocence. 11 7-9 Men are to be brought to it from all parts, and it will acknowledge the Lord. 11 10 There has been heretofore no protection from falsities of evil, which are from hell. 3 11, 12 It will be different in this church, where truths and goods will continue. 11 13-17 As the former church has perished through falsities of evil, so this one will continue in truths and goods. 3, 11 18, 19 It will be in humiliation and in the affection for truth. 11 20-23 It will grow and will increase in numbers from all who worship the Lord and love the Word. 11

241.Chapter 9 [Zechariah] 1, 2 The new church will be in knowledges [cognitiones] from the Word. 11 3, 4 Those who are in knowledges from the Word will destroy them. 3 5, 6 Likewise those who are in faith alone. 3 7, 8 They shall perish lest they ruin the church still further. 3 9 The Lord will come with Divine truth. 1 10, 11 After the old church has perished, a new one will be instituted subject to the Lord, who will reign over it. 3, 1 12-16 The Lord will fill them with truths, and will protect them. 11 17 They will possess intelligence. 11

242.Chapter 10 [Zechariah] 1 The Lord will spiritually bless those who seek Him. 17 2, 3 Those who have the Word are in falsities of evil and will perish. 3 4-6 Those who are in celestial good, of whom the church will consist where the Lord is, will fight 11 against falsities of evil; so also will those who are in spiritual good. 11, 7 7-10 They are to be gathered together out of every religion, and taught. 11 11 The Lord will protect them from falsities that are from hell, 11 12 because they worship the Lord. [11]

243.Chapter 11 [Zechariah] 1-3 Every external of the church has been devastated. 3 4, 5 Care is to be taken lest those who are in good be destroyed by them. 3 6 Falsities destroy the church. 2 7, 8 There are none to lead the people any longer, 2 9 but only such as destroy. 2 10, 11 The Lord’s conjunction with them has been sundered. 3 12, 13 The Lord was betrayed by the Jews, because He taught them. 4, 9 14 The conjunction of truth and good has been sundered. 4, 9 15-17 The teacher and the leader destroy all things of the church by falsities of evil. 3

244.Chapter 12 [Zechariah] 1 The Lord forms the church. 11 2, 3 Nothing of the doctrine of truth will be in the church, therefore they will shun it. 3 4 There is no understanding of truth any longer, except with those who are in the Word and of the new church. 3, 11 5 Then they will learn the good of doctrine from the Lord. 11 6, 7 Then the Lord will destroy all falsities by the truths of the Word, lest doctrine should teach something else. 11 8 Then the church will be in doctrine respecting the Lord. 11 9 Then all men or all things that are contrary to that doctrine will be destroyed. 3 10 Then there will be a new church from the Lord. 11 10-14 All things and every single thing of the church will mourn. 3

245.Chapter 13 [Zechariah] 1 Then the Word will be for the Lord’s new church. 11 2, 3 Falsities of doctrine and worship will both be utterly destroyed. 3 4, 5 Prophecy will cease, and there will be no more falsity of doctrine. 3 6, 7 Those with whom the church will be at the time will slay the Lord, with the intention of scattering those who believe in Him. 9 8, 9 Those who are of the devastated church will perish, and those who are of the new church are to be purified, and taught by the Lord. 3, 11

246.Chapter 14 [Zechariah] 1-5 The Lord’s combats against the wicked, and their dispersion. 7 6, 7 Then there will be no truth, but in the Lord there will be Divine truth. 3, 12 8, 9 Then Divine truth will proceed from the Lord. 12 10, 11 Truth will be multiplied in the new church, and no falsity of evil will be there. 12 12 He who fights against those truths, will plunge into falsities of every kind. 3 13-15 Then follows the destruction of the church. 3 16-19 Then they will draw near to the worship of the Lord, even those from the nations who are external natural. 11 20, 21 Then from the good of charity, from which proceeds worship, there will be intelligence. 11