2408. 'Lest you are consumed in the iniquity of the city' means lest they perished in evils deriving from falsity. This is clear from the meaning of 'iniquity' as evil, and from the meaning of 'a city' as doctrinal teaching, even if false, dealt with in 402. What evil deriving from falsity is becomes clear from what has been stated in Volume One, in 1212, 1679.