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As for you also - The prophet turns from the deliverance of the whole world to the former people, addressing the sorrows they would experien…

The advent of the king. It has been urged as an objection against the post-exilic authorship of this passage that “Ephraim” and “Jerusalem” are men…

As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water. Turn ye to the stronghold, y…

Here he applies his previous doctrine to its right use, so that the faithful might emerge from their sorrow and come to that joy which he had previ…

As for you also
These words are not spoken to Christ, for (ta), "you", is of the feminin…

The prophet bursts forth with a joyful representation of the coming of the Messiah, whom the ancient Jews understood this prophecy to be about. He …
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Albert Barnes
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