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twofold occasion which forms the subject of the present narrative, so did he now rise to
the full height of his office. Never before had there been so unmistakable a prediction of
the future as when Isaiah in the full height of Assyria's power announced that the world-
empire of the future would not belong to it, but to vanquished Babylonia, and that Judah's
judgment would not come from their present dreaded enemies, but from those who now
had sought their alliance.*
- We mark that Isaiah 39 is followed by 40-47 The significance of the conjunction of
these prophecies requires not to be pointed out. The one is the Divine counterpart of the
other.
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