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Amos

201.Amos Chapter 1 Verses 1, 2 [The teaching of] the Lord about the Word and doctrine from the Word: 1 3-5 About those who pervert knowledges [cognitiones] from the Word which are of service to doctrine and who thus turn away also the good of those knowledges: these will perish. 3 6-8 About those who apply the Word to a heretical falsity: these will perish. 3 9, 10 About those who pervert knowledges [cognitiones] of good and truth, and thereby do injury to the external sense of the Word. 3 11, 12 About those who pervert the sense of the letter of the Word by falsity, by which doctrine perishes. 3 13-15 About those who falsify the truths of the sense of the letter of the Word: they do not resist in the day of combat, but destroy the truth of doctrine. 3, 15

202.Chapter 2 [Amos] 1-3 About those who adulterate the good of the sense of the letter of the Word: these destroy the good and truth of the church. 2 4, 5 About those who destroy the celestial things of the Word: they destroy both its celestial and its spiritual things. 2 6-8 About those who destroy the spiritual things of the church: these go away in consequence into falsities of every kind. 2 9-11 The Lord entirely removed falsities of evil when the church was instituted among them, and they were instructed. 2 [?12] 13-16 Nevertheless that church perverted all things, and hence it has become like one who has truth and yet is without truth, and thus perishes in the 2 time of judgment. 15

203.Chapter 3 [Amos] 1, 2 The church was instituted solely with the Israelitish nation, therefore falsities and evils must be examined there. 3 3-6 There cannot be at the same time a church and not a church, nor truths and at the same time falsities, without truths being snatched away. 3 7, 8 The Lord will surely reveal this; 3 9, 10 for from this it is clear how the church is devastated. 3 11 Therefore the truths of the church perish from falsities, 3 12 and the goods and truths of the Word will be carried off by them; 3 13-15 so also all things of the church. 3

204.Chapter 4 [Amos] 1-3 Those who pervert the doctrine of the church: they will also fall into falsities in outermost things. 2 4-6 They worship in externals according to the statutes, which will be similar [to genuine worship], but only in outermost things. 2 7, 8 Some things true will remain, when the rest are false, in consequence of which truths will have no power. 2 9 Afterward all things of the church are falsified, 3 10, 11 and finally they are profaned by sensual knowledges [scientifica], the profanation extending to all things of the church, so that there is hardly anything left. 3 12, 13 Exhortation to turn themselves to the Lord. 3

205.Chapter 5 [Amos] 1-3 Lamentation over the church because it has been successively devastated. 2 4-9 Exhortation to seek the Lord, that all things of the church may not perish through evils and falsities. 2 10-13 They reject truths because they are in self-intelligence. 2 14, 15 Exhortation to be converted. 2 16-20 Lamentation over the destruction of the church, and over their own destruction, when the Lord comes. 3 21, 22 Their worship cannot be accepted. 2 23-25 It will be accepted if they have good and truth. 2 26, 27 Otherwise they are deprived of all knowledge [cognitio] of truth and good. 2

206.Chapter 6 [Amos] Of the spiritual church which was instituted. 3 1, 2 It turned out worse than the religions of other nations. 3 3-6 It possesses all things of the church in abundance; they think nothing of the destruction of the church. 3 7-9 Therefore all things will perish, 3 10-12 until nothing remains, 3 13, 14 for the reason that they acquired those things from what is their own. 3

207.Chapter 7 [Amos] 1 The church grew from externals to externals. 3 [?2-]4-6 When externals were lost, there was a restoration. 3 7-9 When inmosts were reached, all things were destroyed, because they were contrary to God, 3 10-13 and contrary to all things of doctrine; 3 [?14], 15, 16 so that there was no longer any doctrine. 3 17 The church with all things pertaining to it will perish. 3

208.Chapter 8 [Amos] 1 A new thing of the church comes into existence. 11 2, 3 The old church comes to an end, 3 4-6 when there is nothing but adulteration of good and truth. 3 7-10 Therefore they will perish on the day of judgment. 15 11-14 Then there will no longer be any good or truth. 3, 15

209.Chapter 9 [Amos] 1-5 The last judgment upon them, and whithersoever they may flee, nowhere will there be an escape 15 6 from the Lord, who causes a church to be. 11 7 There were also churches before, which were devastated. 11, 2 8-10 Yet the church will not perish, but those who are in it perish. 2, 11 11, 12 A new church will be instituted by the Lord, which will acknowledge the Lord. 11 13-15 The doctrine of truth, and the understanding of it, will be in that church. 11