I will fan them ... - Or, “I have winnowed them with a winnowing shovel.” “Gates of the land” means the places by…

I will fan them with a fan. —The image is, of course, the familiar one of the threshing-floor and the winnowing-fan or shovel ([Reference …

He confirms here the same truth. The verb which I have rendered in the future may be rendered in the past tense, but I still think it is a predicti…

I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land
Either of their own land, the land of Judea; and so the Septuagi…

The Lord declares that even Moses and Samuel must have pleaded in vain. The posing of this as a hypothetical situation, even if they were to stand …

Here, the prophet gives the reason for their rejection.

1. First, a question of wonder is presented, which excludes three things:

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