AE 654g - "Woe to them..."

AE 654g [42]
Woe to them that go down into Egypt for help, and stay on horses,
and trust in the chariot because they are many,
and in horsemen because they are mighty,
but they have no respect unto the Holy One of Israel,
neither seek after Jehovah.
For Egypt is man and not God,
and his horses are flesh and not spirit." Isaiah 31:1, 3

This describes the state of those who wish to be wise in the things of heaven and the church from themselves, thus from self-intelligence and not from the Lord; and as such are merely natural, and thus take everything from the fallacies of the senses, and from knowledges wrongly applied, and pervert and falsify the truths and goods of the church, therefore it is said of them, "Woe to them that go down into Egypt for help, and have no respect unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek after Jehovah"...