13. Since therefore this duty of instruction has been assigned to us, we will teach you what is meant in the Word by the consummation of the age'; and they said that the consummation of the Church is meant, and this is also called desolation and devastation; and that this happens when the truths of faith and the goods of charity have none of their essence left, and thus all ways to heaven are blocked. They said that this consummation is hardly anywhere apparent in the world, since matters of faith there are not truths but falsities, and matters of charity are not goods, but only the deeds of self love, which, when they emerge in the breath of the mouth, do not ascend to heaven, but as soon as they rise, falter and fall back to earth, like bath water thrown over one's shoulders, or like rotten fruit falling from a tree in wintertime.