Spoke 2

Isaiah 46 - The Idols Stoop!

Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast. They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.

Isaiah 46.1f

Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.

Jeremiah 50.2

Duality, Division, Image and Reflection are the themes of Spoke 2 - common to both the Bible Wheel and the Inner Wheel of Isaiah. This manifests in the prohibition of images and idols in the Second Commandment, and it is a major theme found linking Inner Wheels > Isaiah 2 and Exodus, as well as Inner Wheels > Isaiah 24 and Jeremiah. The expected correlation between Isaiah 46 and I Corinthians is mediated primarily through direct links to the Book of Jeremiah which itself is profoundly integrated with I Corinthians through the ideas of God's Glory, Wisdom, and Power, as discussed in Glory in the Lord.

The passage from Isaiah 46 is an example of divine humor - the mocking of the idols that bob up and down as they are carried on the backs of animals, as if they were in the act of worship rather than the object of it. This links directly to the Spoke 2 theme of the Second Commandment which prohibits both the making of idols and the bowing down to them. The two passages quoted above are also linked by a very simple KeyLink since they are the only verses in all the Bible that mention the idol Bel. This is a weaving of Thread 1 (Bible Wheel) with Thread 2 (Isaiah - Bible Correlation) so now we see a Spoke 2 KeyLink between Cell 24 of the Bible Wheel and Cell 46 of the Inner Wheel of Isaiah. We can write these links using