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"of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the Lord." By which I believe the prophecy intimates that not Jerusalem nor Judea but the country of the Gentiles would be deemed worthy of the divine knowledge; for Carmel and the so-called Sharon were places of foreign nations. 6.21.7 So much for the letter; but in spirit, even to this day, those whose souls were formerly maimed, so as to worship wood and stones and the rest of inanimate matter, and earthly demons and wicked spirits instead of the God of all, and those whose ears of understanding were deafened, and who were limping and enfeebled in their whole life, are even now delivered from all these and other passions and infirmities through the teaching of our Savior Jesus Christ, being deemed worthy of a healing and benefit far better than that of the body, and showing forth the divine and superhuman power of the presence of the Word of God among men. 6.22.1 From the same. "Hear me, Jacob, and Israel whom I call; I am the first, and I am forever, and my hand has founded the earth, and my right hand has established the heaven," and he adds, saying: "and now the Lord LORD has sent me and his Spirit." Here you have the Lord who is sent and the one who sends, that is, the Father and God of all, usually called Lord twice. From the same. "Thus says the Lord, what is this bill of your mother's divorce, with which I have sent her away? or to which creditor have I sold you? Behold, for your sins you were sold, and for your iniquities I sent your mother away, because I came, and there was no man, I called, and there was none who heard, does not my hand have the power to rescue? or do I not have the power to deliver?" 6.23.2 Then, continuing in the same prophecy: "But I," he says, "do not disobey nor contradict. I gave my back to scourges, and my cheeks to blows, and I did not turn my face away from the shame of spitting." 6.23.3 The Lord himself, through these words, clearly confessing his presence among men, refutes the people of the Jews, because they will not receive him when he comes, nor will they listen when he calls. And this, as if making a defense, he teaches to have become the cause of their own rejection; for since "I came," he says, "and there was no man" among you, "and I called and there was none who heard," for this reason, he says, "you were sold for your sins," since you yourselves became apostates from my calling, but not because I had given you "a bill of divorce." 6.23.4 And these things are clearly directed to the people of the circumcision. At the same time, he reveals the things dared against him concerning the passion, saying: "I gave my back to scourges, and my cheeks to blows," and what follows these. And these will receive their proper interpretation at leisure. 6.24.1 From the same. "Thus says the Lord, for your sake my name is blasphemed among the nations. Therefore my people shall know my name in that day, for I am he that speaks; I am present as a season upon the mountains, as the feet of one bringing good tidings of peace, as one bringing good tidings of good things, for I will make your salvation heard, saying, Zion, your God shall reign. The voice of your watchmen has been lifted up, and with their voice they will rejoice together; for eye to eye they shall see, when the Lord has mercy on Zion. Let the desolate places of Jerusalem break forth into joy together, for the Lord has had mercy on her and has delivered Jerusalem. And he will reveal his holy arm in the sight of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation that comes from our God." 6.24.2 Connected to these in one and the same train of thought is the prophecy concerning the passion of Christ, which I will set forth at leisure. And it is one and the same Lord who said in the preceding passage to the Jewish people, "you were sold for your sins, and for your iniquities I sent your mother away,

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