161. Chapter 38 [Ezekiel] 1, 2 Those who are in the mere sense of the letter of the Word, and in a worship therefrom which is external without an internal, are meant by "Gog." 2 3-7 Everything and all things of that worship will perish. 2 8-16 That worship will possess the church, and will vastate it, and it will thus be in externals without internals. 2 17-19 The state of the church will therefore be changed. 2 20-23 And the truths and goods of religion will perish in consequence, and falsities will succeed in their place. 2