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

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

(参考: Apocalypse Explained 768)

2267. That 'perhaps the fifty righteous persons will lack five' means if it were something less is clear from the meaning of 'five' as small or less. The meaning of this number is dealt with in Volume One, in 649; and what 'the fifty righteous persons' means has been shown above in 2252.