1189. That falsities originating from cupidities are signified by “Calah,” cannot be confirmed from the prophetical, but only from the historical parts of the Word, in that the king of Asshur carried the sons of Israel into Asshur, or Assyria, and made them dwell in Calah, and in Habor, by the river Gozan, and in the cities of Media (2 Kings 17:6; 18:11). The historical facts here involve nothing else, for, as was said before, all the historicals of the Word are significative and representative. Thus “Israel” here is the perverted spiritual church; “Asshur” is reasoning; and “Calah” is such falsity.
