48. Chapter 48 [Isaiah] Exhortation to the church that is adulterating the goods and profaning the truths of the word, that they should desist. 2 1, 2 It has been granted them that they may be the church, and that they may acknowledge the Lord, but in vain. 2 3, 4 They have turned away, and this has been declared to them, 2 5 lest, haply, they should believe that they themselves are superior to others, 2 6, 7 and have not known this, 2 8 and yet they have been such from the beginning. 2 9-11 They are not yet to be destroyed, for His own reasons, and the time will yet be prolonged. 2 12, 13 Be it known to them that He is the God of heaven and earth. 10, 16 14-17 He is the Lord who will come among those who are adulterating and profaning the Word, and will declare this to them: 1 18, 19 if they had obeyed Him they would have had the goods and truths of the church in all abundance; 2 20, 21 if they would leave the adulterations and falsifications of the Word, and the pride of having dominion, they would be in everything of the church. 2 22 But the church is not with them, because they have turned away. 2