Arcana Coelestia #3150
3150. 'And he said, I am not eating' means refusal, that is to say, the affection for good in the natural man had not yet made those Divine things its own. This is clear without explanation.
Isaiah 8:6-7
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"Because this people have refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;
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now therefore, behold, the Lord brings upon them the mighty flood waters of the River: the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks.
