387. 7932. [Is. 47:] verse 8. [The daughter of Babel] is again called "delicate one"* [as in verse 1], because it appears to them as more beautiful than any other doctrine. She boasts that there is no other as beautiful as she. Thus she boasts that she is above all in the universe, and goes so far as to exclude all others from the kingdom of Heaven. That such is the arrogance of the Jews, I have heard quite often from those who have spoken with me who had been of the Jews. They boast that they alone will occupy heaven, excluding all the rest, whom, in fact, they hold in deadly hatred; and if they had the power, they would want to admit none of them. All others they regard as the damned. But they hardly tolerate anyone of their own, except in that certain case where it has to do with eminence, and they are then worshipped, etc. [Jews] "Not to be a widow" and "not bereaved [of children]" means that she would last to eternity. * KJV has "given to pleasures" in verse 8, but "delicate" in verse 1.