'The children of Israel,' in Isaiah 14:2, signify the Gentiles.

In Jeremiah 23:8, 'Israel' represents the spiritual natural church.

(Mga Sanggunian: Apocalypse Explained 768)

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)