45. [44.] When Zinzendorf was rejected wherever he went and saw his Moravian followers in an unhappy state, he allowed himself to be convinced that he was immersed in falsities, and he therefore labored and continues to labor with all his might to dispel his falsities and receive truths in their stead. But he confessed that he was unable to free himself from the societies into which he had introduced himself while in the world, since every person is united with such societies and cannot afterward dissociate himself. For this is the meaning of the Lord's words concerning the five foolish virgins, that they afterward wished to buy oil, and also did so, but still could not go in to the wedding.* * Matthew 15:1-13.