1 Woe [Hoy] (doom)]to the crown of pride [ateret ge'ut], to the [shikkorei Ephrayim (drunkards of Ephrayim)], whose glorious beauty is a fading flower [tzitz], which are on the head [rosh] of the fat [verdant] valleys [gey] of them that are overcome with wine [yayin]!

Speaking of the Power that should destroy the kingdom of the Ten Tribes, Isaiah says...

2 Behold [Hinei], Yahweh hath a mighty [chazak] and strong one, which as a tempest of hail [ barad] and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters [mayim] overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand [ha'aretz with the yad].

Hail from a Political heaven would not be literally frozen waters; but rather something injurious set in motion against the enemies of the hailing power.

When a government sends forth its armies to lay waste its adversaries and their countries with fire and sword, its troops are a storm, or plague, of hail; and every individual trooper is a hailstone of a certain weight.

Eureka 16.4.4.

This was a threatened war against the drunkards of Ephraim, which was afterwards executed by the King of Assyria who cast down their sovereignty, and carried them away into a captivity from which they have not yet returned. They thought themselves secure, and made lies their refuge, and under falsehood hid themselves. But in the seventeenth verse they were informed that "the hail should sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters overflow the hiding place.

Eureka 8.6.1. Act 1.

9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

Perhaps a child shall understand more than the priests

10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

They were wearied by the teaching of the prophets which had become to them comparable to an irritating nursery rhyme whereas a faithful attitude would be...

Its wisdom is diffused over all its contents. It is not concentrated anywhere. In this respect it is unlike a human composition which, in chapters and sections, aims at exhausting a particular topic. It is like the inner curtain of the Mosaic tabernacle: the blue and the purple and the fine-twined linen and the golden thread are everywhere through the fabric.

It is, however, unlike that fabric in this, that in some parts of it you find treasure not to be found in other parts. This peculiarity has two results: to acquire the mind of the Spirit revealed in the word, we must make ourselves acquainted with the whole, and the reading of it is a constant feast. It never loses its relish, but becomes sweeter to the taste with use. In this it is unlike all other books.

Bro Roberts - Walking worthily, Seasons 1: 39.

16 Therefore thus saith Adonia Yahweh, Behold [Hineni], I lay in Zion [Tziyon] for a foundation a stone [even], a tried stone [even bochan], a precious corner stone [pinnat yikrat], a sure foundation: he that believeth [the ma'amin] shall not make haste [panic].

He [Yahoshua] is symbolized here by a stone, because he is so designated in the prophets. In setting forth the military prowess of Joseph's posterity beacharith hayamim, "in the last one of the days," he predicts that the arms of his hands shall be made strong by the Mighty One, the Ail and the Shaddai of Jacob, out of whom is the Shepherd, whom he styles "THE STONE OF ISRAEL" (Gen. xlix. 24,25).

This Shepherd-Stone is typified in the two onyx stones of the Aaronic ephod, upon which the names of the twelve tribes were engraved in the order of the birth of their fathers, and which were to be borne before Yahweh upon the two shoulders of the one man officiating as High Priest, for a memorial (Exod. xxviii. 9,12).

The prophet Isaiah also speaks of him to Judah thus: "Sanctify," saith he, "Yahweh Tz'vaoth himself, and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. And he shall be for a sanctuary. But also for a Stone of stumbling, and for a Rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem" (viii. 14).

This has in part been accomplished, and we wait now for this stone to be laid in the identical place where it was stumbled over; according to the words of the Spirit by the same prophet, saying, "Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a Stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation; he that believeth shall not be confounded" (xxviii. 16).

This is "the stone which the builders refused" which will then have "become the chief of the corner" (Psa. cxviii. 22), the head stone with Seven Eyes brought forth with shoutings of "Grace, grace, unto it!" (Zech. iii. 9; iv. 7,10).

Two precious stones are selected by the Spirit to represent the appearance of the Man enthroned. These are a Jasper and Sardius. The reason why two are indicated rather than one, is because THE KING is Spirit and Flesh in combination. Had he been mere flesh, or spirit uncombined with flesh, one stone would have answered every purpose; but being deity manifested in flesh, two precious stones were necessary: one to symbolize the Spirit, and the other to represent the Flesh.

Eureka 4.1.5.

'... the mission of the Stone is... to level the "Great Mountain," which, at his apocalypse, will be found "destroying the earth." ..."Yahweh will shake the heavens and the earth, and overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations." These make up the great mountains to be levelled, or abolished, as symbolized in Apoc. 16:20.

Eureka 1.1.5b

In Jesus himself the foundation stone of a new order of things was being laid, as saith the prophet:

"Behold I lay in Zion for a foundation, a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation" (Isaiah xxviii, 16).

The first step in the process was the begettal of the Son of Mary by the Spirit. The second, his growth and development in the ways of the Father. The third, his manifestation to Israel in the word and works of God. And now was about to be accomplished the next and most difficult of all, so far as Christ's submission was concerned: the public and official condemnation of sin in his crucifixion, which His nature qualified him to be the subject of, but not without all the suffering of the most sensitive of Adam's race.

His physical flesh and blood, as he was before his death, was identical with that which had prevailed upon earth from Adam downwards, characterised by the same weakness and mortality, arising from the same hereditary cause -- the sentence of death upon Adam. The nailing of his body to the cross was therefore a representative ritual, in which the rejection of the first Adam nature was signified, and the righteousness of God thereby declared.

As Paul affirms in Romans it was a "declaration of the righteousness of God for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God" (Rom. iii. 25). We morally identify ourselves with the transaction when we receive it in faith as God's appointed mode of reconciliation. Paul expresses it thus:

"Our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin" (Rom. vi. 6).

Nazareth Revisited Ch 51

17 Judgment [Mishpat] also will I lay to the line [make as the measuring line], and righteousness [tzedakah] to the plummet [ plumbline]: and the hail [barad] shall sweep away the refuge [kazav] of lies, and the waters [mayim] shall overflow the hiding place.

Jesus and his Brethren, energized by Yahweh, the Eternal Spirit, descending as a tempest of hail, a destroying storm, will have beaten down the Assyrian, and swept away all refuges of lies.

The Laodicean Apostasy will have been demolished and for ever abolished; and "the smoke of the temple from the glory of the Deity, and from his power," will all have cleared away, and men will enter into the temple and go out no more (Isa. xxx. 30; xxviii. 2,17; xxxii. 19; Ezek. xxxviii. 22; Apoc. xi. 19; xv. 8; iii. 12; xvi. 17-21).

"IT IS DONE." "The Air" is purified of "the spirituals of wickedness in the heavenlies" (Eph. vi. 12), and nothing remains but for the victorious saints and the conquered world of nations to celebrate the victory.

Eureka 5.2.3.