Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Holy Scriptures

Mich. 4 : 1. The great resemblance of these predictions is remarkable. Joel likewise has similar passages. The church is the house of God. It appears as a mountain on the top of mountains, high above all the kingdoms of the earth. It is like a city seated on a mountain, which cannot be hidden.

The prophet calls on his nation to walk by this Divino light.

P- " From the east." The contrast is presented between superstitions derived from the Syrians on the east, and the Philistines on the west.

H. P. " Children of strangers," is equivalent to strangers, as the phrases " sons of Greeks," "sons of Ethiopians," means simply Greeks, Ethiopians. Joel 3 : 6; Amos 9 : 7.

Since all these things are to befall yon, and are foretold in a prophetic spirit, I admonish and command' you to cease from molesting Him, who is indeed man according to the flesh, and has a soul, and breathes, as we men breathe and live, but according to bis Divine majesty is high, and is considered and believed to be such."