89. Chapter 23 [Jeremiah] 1, 2 Against those who have perverted the good of the Word, and by means of it have destroyed the church, who are meant by the "shepherds." 3 3, 4 They will perish, and the Lord will establish a church from others, who will teach and learn its good. 11 5, 6 The Lord will do this, and then those who are of His church will be saved. 11 7[, 8] Then they will acknowledge that the Lord is Jehovah, and that the church is His. 16, 11 9 Against those who pervert the truths of the Word, who are meant by the "prophets." 3 10 From their perversions the church is full of falsities and is perverted, 3 11 and there is no longer truth or good, excepting such as is external. 3 12 Because they do not see truths, they perish on the day of judgment. 15, 3 13 Truths are perverted by false principles, which are of religion. 3 14 But the Word is perverted, this is the worst. 3 15 They will possess nothing but falsity, 3 16, 17 which they also confirm from the Word, 3 18 saying that it is Divine. 3 19, 20 They will perish on the day of judgment. 15 21, 22 They learn from themselves, and not from the Lord; if they learned from the Lord, they would depart from evils; 3 23, 24 thus the Lord would be with them. 3 25, 26 They pervert by means of false interpretation. 3 27 Hence they have no understanding of truth, 3 28, 29 because they have none from the Lord, who also is the Word, in which truth from Him makes itself manifest. 3 30, 31 Those who call themselves enlightened pervert truth still more, 3 32 whereas they are not enlightened. 3 33 The Divine truth shows that they have gone back. 3 34 He who says otherwise will suffer. 3 35, 36 Moreover they will not know what Divine truth is; 3 37-40 and because they call that which is false, Divine truth, the truth of the church will be removed from them; hence their destruction. 3