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'Out of ze 'vay, bug!' "Grasshoppers in their sight" : The Contemptuous Arrogance of Nephilim

 We have touched on insects in the Word in the past, as in this verse from Numbers: Numbers 13:33 - King James Version (KJV) <33> And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight. Much junk food has been written about the Nephilim; which has essentially more in common with Dungeons and Dragons than with the Word of God and the spiritual meanings which it throughout encodes. Here the salient point to take hold of is the tininess of those upon whom we gaze with contempt. As we read in Arcana Coelestia, the Nephilim "were possessed with the most enormous love of self, and supposed themselves to be as gods, and that whatever they thought was Divine" ; consequently, they looked upon other people as bugs (AC562). What is the modern-day equivalent? 'Out of ze vay, bug.'  Isaiah 40:22 - King James Version (KJV) <22> It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth