388. 7934. [Is. 47:] verse 10. [The daughter of Babel] calls it the highest "wisdom and knowledge" when they wrongly interpret the Word of God the Messiah and apply to themselves whatever is written about Zion and Jerusalem, as well as wanting themselves to be meant wherever Israel is named in a good sense. All other passages which are against them they explain in a distorted way. No matter how they have lived, even though engaged in extreme idolatry from the beginning to the end, still they maintain that the promise was made to them. They did not remember the covenant and that they had broken it time after time, and that they were to be entirely rooted out when they rendered the covenant null and void, as Moses so often declares to them, as do the prophets. They say these words in their heart, as we read just before [verse 8], that "there is no one else besides" them. Moreover, they also say amongst themselves that they worship Jehovah the Creator of the universe, but they do not want to know that there can never be any approach to Him except through His Only Begotten Son, Who is prefigured in every ritual and sacrifice of their Church. And because they do not have faith in the Only Begotten of Jehovah, they therefore cannot possibly be admitted to Jehovah. This is also the reason that they almost continually fell into idolatry and worshipped idols, to which they ascribed all power, in fact, even the creation of the universe, and also called the idol Jehovah, as appears plainly enough in Exod. 32:5. [Church; Jews; Symbolic Portrayal (Representation)]