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Pauiuf' New Version , of l % ech . ix—x . 1 . ' SOI **
j % Gph . ix . 8 . And no tyrant shall mvide it any more , For 119 W have t observed it with my own eyes . 9 . Dance the glad dance , city , daughter of Zion ! Shout aloud , land , daughter of Jeruskledi ! See , thy king shall come unto thee >
As a judge and a deliverer * Meekly he sicteth on an ass ; On a beast which a she-ass bare . 10 . For I will extirpate ttie chariot-team from Ephraim ; And the breed of torses shall be banished from Jerusalem . Broken be the bow of war ! * ' Speak peace to the nations 1 * Be its empire extended from sea to sea ; From flood to flood , even to the ends of the land ! *
3 . 4 . ) or perhaps we should alter the points and read n 32 fO . it means a standing military force > for the purpose of defence , as that in
the citadel of the temple , 1 Mace . xiii . 50 , xiv G . 7 . —— with my own eyes have I seen / ' that the Macedonians and reeks , the masters of Egypt and Syria , who march backwards , and forwards through Palestine , have it in their power to fall on the temple by surprise as they pass . attfOt nayO ; so again , ch . vii . 14 . V . 9 . The daughter of Zion is the city which lies round Zion .
The daughter of Jerusalem is the land of Judea . Comp . Ps . xlv * 13 . cxxxviL $ . Jerem . xfyi . 24 . 1 > j ? is not a young * m specifically , but like the Arabic * V # > one Jit for riding , &c . and therefore full grown , or nearly so . Is , xxx . 24 . " Son of a she-ass"' is simply synonymous to mon and ' * i' ] tf without" any particular emphasis . The three
synonyms are employed in order to mark more strongly the circumstance , that 4 he king did not appear in the procession on horseback , but mounted on a peaceful animal . The horse and the ass are contrasted , in other places , as the emblems of peace and war . Hos . xiv . 4 . Prov . xxi . 31 . Jerem * xvii . 25 . Gen . xlix . 11 .
V . 10 . For .. the meaning is : now that the territory of Israel * or of Jehovah , is sufficiently extended , war , ' and consequently the use of cavalry and chariots , shall be at an end , and even the king shall re ~
turn in peaceful procession frpm his conquests * *\ hwt 5 scil . rs EZrtbty * E 3 > in Hebrew means any large body ot water , as the dead sea , tjbe sea of Genejzareth , &c . We are not to look ifor the exact boundaries of the territory in qijestion , in the words C 3 * ° " \} t C 3 ^ D . The Mediteip- * ranean very well makes one boundary ; but the two seas on the o th ^ r side are at a distaitee from- each othea \ and one in the middle of the the whole the
country . The meaipng is ^^ tferbugh « eototfry , from one side to the other . — - —nnS # is ^^ Ifcrase of sam f ^ J ^ rt : ftwnjlciod ta flood * If any one wish ^ ^ d ^ ci / Tc ssa let Him coHiidcr that Hyr-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1806, page 201, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1723/page/33/
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