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he adds concerning the idols. He sees the lawlessness of the people and the idolatry. After these things, those who came until the destruction of the city. He sees the Cherubim again, and foretells evils for the city. Concerning those who believe in Christ. He foretells again the captivity of the people in the time of Zedekiah, and the blinding of Zedekiah himself, which was done by Nebuchadnezzar. He foretells that the evils will not come to pass after a long time, but are near. He threatens the false prophets, and says their evils, which they will suffer, are inevitable; so that not even Job, or Daniel, or Noah could rescue their sons; and he indicates their final desolation through the vine branch. He relates the shamefulness of the people from the beginning, before God took them to himself, and the comeliness after he took them; and their idolatry, and the capture that followed them because of it, and he shows their great lawlessness by comparison with Sodom and Samaria, being great even in themselves. And the good things which he foretells, namely, “I will raise up my covenant with you,” can be said of those who believe in Christ. He foretells the coming up of Nebuchadnezzar. To those who say, “The fathers ate sour grapes, and the children's teeth were set on edge.” Concerning the mother of those with Zedekiah the king. He testifies to the elders of the lawlessness of their fathers. And the phrase, “For on my holy mountain, on the high mountain of Israel,” says Adonai, Lord, “there all the house of Israel will serve me in the end,” can be taken to refer to those who believe in Christ. Against Teman, and against Israel, and against the sons of Ammon. And he speaks of the lawlessness and sins of Israel, and of the priests, and of the rulers and false prophets. “And I sought,” he says, “a man who walks uprightly, and stands in the breach of the hedge before my face in the time of the land, that I should not utterly destroy it; and I found none.” Concerning the idolatry of the people of Israel in Egypt, and that which came after, and the calamities. And still they will not be permitted to mourn over the grievous things that happen. Against the Ammanites and the Idumeans, and the foreigners, and Sor, which they say is Tyre. He foretells great calamities, against the ruler of Tyre and Sidon, and Egypt, and the king of the Egyptians. He threatens the watchman of the people, if he should not tell the people, for whom he is appointed watchman, about the calamities brought on by God. And 56.382 he says that neither is the lawless man destroyed for his former lawless deeds, if he should turn to do what is pleasing to God; nor is the righteous man saved for his former righteousness, if having changed he becomes lawless and unrighteous. Someone came to the prophet announcing that Jerusalem had been captured; and he speaks about this also, accusing them because they do not pay attention to what is prophesied. And he prophesies also against the shepherds of Israel; and he promises to give them one shepherd; which happened in the time of Zerubbabel, which thing the Jews, being shameless, say has not yet happened; but it did happen, as I said, in the time of Zerubbabel. He prophesies against the Idumeans and good things for the Israelites, which God says he will do for the Jews, not because they are worthy, but so that his name should not be profaned. The prophet is led into the plain, and prophesies over the dry bones. And he prophesies also concerning Zerubbabel, that he will be one ruler of the Jews; and it can be taken to refer to our Lord Jesus Christ. He prophesies also concerning Gog and Magog, who attacked the Jews after the return from Babylon, and were defeated. But some take it allegorically to refer to the Churches, and to the devil, and to the persecutions from time to time brought on by impious kings. And he prophesies the building of the temple, and the restoration of the Mosaic worship; which things the Jews still expect; but they came to pass in the time of Ezra and Zerubbabel. But the building of the city, which he foretells, and the water coming forth little by little and increasing, can be

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