7. Internal Meaning of Isaiah, Chapter 7

1-6 Ignorance of truth and non-understanding of the Word will enter and begin to destroy the church. (2)

7-9 It is foretold that this will not take place as yet, (3, 2, 3)

10-16 but it will at the time when the Lord comes into the world. (3, 1)

17-20 Then all understanding of the Word will be perverted by knowledges [scientifica] and by reasonings from them, until nothing remains. (2, 3)

21-22 Then truth will be taught in all abundance. (11, 3)

23-24 The church will then be wholly devastated. (11, 3)

23 It will be otherwise with those who receive. (11, 3, 3)

6857. Flowing with milk and honey. That this signifies the pleasantness and delight thence, is evident from the signification of “milk,” as being the celestial spiritual, or the truth of good (see n. 2184); and as it denotes the truth of good, it denotes also the pleasantness thereof, for these are conjoined; and from the signification of “honey,” as being delight (n. 5620). From what was shown above (n. 6854) it can be seen what is meant by “making to come up out of that land to a land good and broad, flowing with milk and honey,” namely, that they who had been detained in the lower earth in pits there until the Lord’s coming, should then be raised to heaven where are the good of charity and the truth of faith and the derivative pleasantness and delight. These things are specifically signified by these words; but in general are signified all of the spiritual church who are in temptation and are liberated from it.