Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Holy Scriptures

P. " The east wind." The two expressions of the text are tantamount, the latter denoting more strik- ingly the eager pursuit of vain and pernicious objects.

He kept up commerce with Egypt contrary to the will of God. " The sacred history Informs us, that Manahen, king of Israel, having made peace with Assur, asked help from the Egyptians, which is here meant by Ephraim feeding the winds, that is deceiving himself with vain hope, and pursuing ** Semis, that is the heat, and going to the south, and doing nothing constantly but deceiving himself: and whilst he runs to and fro, he prepares desolation and overthrow for his cities. Is it not desolation and falsehood to make covenant with the Assyrians, and to carry oil into Egypt? A part is put for the whole rt/rSK/c^ncwf, inasmuch as he sent gifts to the Egyptians." St. Jerome.

P. "With God." L. "An angel." H. is used of God and of angels, judges, and others in authority. The term •jubOi in the following verse, is generally employed for a Divine messenger.

Galaad, in the kingdom of Israel, was defiled with idolatry, and punished accordingly by the de- portation of its inhabitants into captivity. Galgal, in the kingdom of Juda, where the furrows of the field are pressed down by Idolatrous altars, may expect the like punishment u Like fortuitous heaps formed by picking the stones out of the field, and casting them aside.