Israel
'The children of Israel,' in Isaiah 14:2, signify the Gentiles.
In Jeremiah 23:8, 'Israel' represents the spiritual natural church.
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The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 17
17. Internal Meaning of Isaiah, Chapter 17 (8)
Those who place religion in nothing but knowing knowledges [scientia cognitionum], which is Damascus. (2)
1-2 They are to be destroyed. (2)
3 This [knowledge] will be serviceable to the new church. (11, 2)
4-6 The knowledge of knowledges will then be rare, (11, 2, 3)
7-8 but they are to be instructed by the Lord. (11, 2)
9-14 Those who do not suffer themselves to be instructed by the Lord will lack all things, and will seize upon falsities for truths. (11, 2)
