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•earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. All
they that know thee among the people shall be
astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never
shalt thou be any more.” (Ver. 16—19.) Can it be
doubted however that in this denunciation God had
before Him the fall and ruin of His arch-enemy ? The
want of seeing such allusions, past or future, above all
•of seeing Christ in the prophecies, often exposes souls
little established in the truth to charge God’s word
foolishly. They conceive oriental exaggerations, where
such as know the truth find the deepest ground for
thankfulness of heart for God’s grace in thus binding
all His revelations in one harmonious whole.

The concluding section is the prophecy against Zidon.
u Again the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, aud prophesy
against it. And say, Thus saitli the Lord Jehovah,
Behold, I am against thee, 0 Zidon; and I will be
glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that
I am Jehovah, when I shall have executed judgments
in her, and shall be sanctified in her. For I will send
into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the
wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the
sword upon her on every side; and they shall know
that I am Jehovah. And there shall be no more a
pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving
thorn of all that are round about them, that despise
them; and they shall know that I am the Lord Je­
hovah.’’ (Ver. 20-24.) God is now known in and by His
grace in Christ Jesus our Lord. As before the gospel
it was by His judgments, so will it be again when the