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THE CONTENTS. In this chapter in the internal sense there is further continued the subject of the vastation of those who infest those who are of the spiritual church. The ninth and tenth states
or degrees of vastation, which are described by the "locust" and by the "thick darkness," whereby is signified falsity from evil devastating all things of the church with them, are now treated of.
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This chapter goes on in the internal sense to deal further still with the vastation of those who molest people who belong to the spiritual Church. Now the ninth and tenth states or stages
of their vastation are dealt with; the locusts and the thick darkness, meaning falsity arising from evil which devastates everything of the Church present with them, serve to describe those states.
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In hoc capite in sensu interno continuatur adhuc de vastatione illorum qui infestant illos qui ab Ecclesia spirituali sunt; nunc agitur de vastationis nono et decimo statu seu gradu {1},
qui describuntur per locustam et per caliginem, per quas (x)significatur falsum ex malo devastans omnia quae sunt Ecclesiae apud illos. @1 i vastationis$