PROPHECY V. The birth of Christ-His second advent-The blessings of his millennian kingdom-The restoration and conversion of Israel-The exhaustion of the mystic Euphrates and Nile-The overthrow of the Antichristian sovereign of the mystic Babylon in the land of Palestine. Isaiah xi. 1. And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots: 2. And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord; 3. And his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: 4. But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and with equity shall he work conviction in the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth * * His delight.]", his snuffing up with pleasure, his "pleasureable sensation. So the verb " signifies, when fol"lowed by the preposition 2, as in Levit. xxvi. 31. Amos v. "21. The expression is equivalent to, but stronger than, "that of David in Psalm i. 2. 1ɣen nin' n^ina." Bp. of Killalla in loc. with with the blast of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked one. 5. And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins. 6. The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf, and the young lion, and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. 7. And the cow and the bear shall feed together; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 8. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice den. 9. They shall not hurt, nor destroy, in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cast a cover on the sea. 10. And there shall be in that day a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign to the peoples, unto him shall the nations repair, and his resting-place shall be glorious. 11. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord will put forth his hand the second time, to recover the By the blast.] "For bawa by the rod, Houbigant reads, nawa by the blast from aw♪ to blow. The conjecture is ingenious and probable, and seems to be confirmed by the LXX. and the Chaldee, who render it by the word of his "mouth, which answers much better to the correction than "the present reading. Add to this, that the blast of his "mouth is perfectly parallel to the breath of his lips in the next "line." Bp. Lowth in loc. remnant remnant of his people that remaineth, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinah, and from Hamath, and from the isles of the west. 12. And he shall lift up an ensign to the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. 13. And the jealousy of Ephraim shall cease; and the enmity of Judah shall be no more: Ephraim shall not be jealous of Judah; and Judah shall not be at enmity with Ephraim. 14. But they shall hover over the borders of the Philis * * tines They shall hover over the borders.] That is, for the purpose of invasion. The Bp. of Killalla retains the common translation they shall fly upon the shoulders, and supposes the passage to mean that the Philistines should furnish them with shipping for the purpose of prosecuting their conquests westward-This seems to me unnatural. The verse is plainly taken up in describing the conquests of the Jews in and about Palcstine. The nations enumerated as destined to be subdued by them are the Philistines, whose country lay westward to the sea: the Edomites, to the south; the Moabites and Ammonites, to the east; and the children of the east, extending to the Euphrates, which will probably be hereafter the boundary of Israel as it heretofore was in the days of Solomon. A map of Palestine is the best illustration of the prophet's geographical description-The Bishop, in his letter to me, defends his opinion, on the ground, that the Philistines were most probably descended from the same ancestors as the Tyrians, that the colonies of the Tyrians were scattered throughout the isles of the West and seated even beyond the streights of Gibraltar, and that thus their descendants will, agreeably to other prophecies, tines westward; together shall they spoil the children of the east: Edom and Moab shall become their vassals *; and the children of Ammon their obedient servants. 15. And the Lord shall smite phecies, have the office assigned to them of conveying the Jews back to their own country in shipping-Though I believe that some western maritime 'nation will be instrumental in restoring a part of the Jews, I do not feel convinced that that circumstance is here alluded to. According to the general, phraseology of Scripture, the modern occupiers of a country are rather designated by the name of the ancient inhabitants, than the natural descendants of those ancient inhabitants seated in other countries. I cannot allow, that the Tyrian colonists bore any proportion to the Celtic aborigines of the West, even supposing them to be of the same family as the Philistines, whịch is by no means clear. The Philistines seem to have been considered as foreigners, not kinsmen, by the Canaanites: at least it is not easy, on any other supposition, to guess why the LXX. constantly style them aλques or men of another tribe. I much incline to suspect, that they were a fragment of the royal shepherds of Egypt who were at length expelled by the native dynasty, and that their name is closely allied to that of the shepherd Philitis after which the Egyptians designated their pyramids (See Herod. 1. ii. § 128.) It is not improbable, that they may originally have been a branch of the Indian Palli. See my Dissert. on the Cabiri. Vol. i. p. 360, 361, 417. * Their vassals.] "Heb. Their manumission, that is, their "liberated servants. That this is the sense, the parallel phrase "in the next line, nynwp, is a proof. n is the word com"monly used to denote the granting of freedom to a slave. "Over such however the master would naturally retain a "claim to their gratitude and good offices." Bp. of Killalla in loc. Their obedient servants.] Heb. Their obedience, considered as a noun of multitude, as captivity for a multitude of captives. with a drought the tongue of the Egyptian sea: and he shall shake his hand over the river with his vehement wind: and he shall smite it into seven streams, and make men go over dry-shod. 16. And there shall be a highway for the remnant of his people which shall be left from Assyria; as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt. xii. 1. And in that day thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise thee, though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away and thou comfortedst me. 2. Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for my strength, and my song, is Jehovah; and he is become unto me salvation." 3. And, when ye shall draw waters with joy from the fountains of salvation; 4. In that day ye shall say, Praise the Lord, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted. 5. Sing ye unto the Lord; for he hath wrought a stupendous work: this is made manifest in all the earth. 6. Cry aloud, and shout for joy, O inhabitress of Zion; for great in the midst of thee is the Holy One of Israel. xiii. 1. The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see. 2. Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles. 3. I have given a charge to mine enrolled warriors; I have even called my strong ones to execute my wrath: those that exult in |