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tlie purpusi^ for which they are so swiftly tiummoncd by the hisa of the Lord of Hosts. " Whose arrows arc sharp, and all their bows bent; their horses' hooFs Ahall be counted like fljnt> and their wheet-^ like a whirl^inil. &c.*' Kow all this U descriptive of the succestdve and sweeping invafiioBs with which the Lord in bia wrath waB to overwhelm the people of bis cove- nant when they t^hould have broken it and trampled ,it under foot, including the Assyrians, the Baby- loniaoa, tlie Romania, the Goilu^, the Saracens, the Turks, and finally Ephraim, who &hall in llie end bo brought up, his^wiftwitnesses, his tnie sancti- fied ones whon^joice in hie highness. And aatbe fbraicrhave been so swift and so terrible who came at this summons, so swift and terrible do J judge tho last will be, when the time shall come to kiss for Bphr^ini, aiul to gnlbft- hnn. The other pasaage is in tbe viith chapter of Uaiafa, at the iStb verse: " And it shall come to pas^ in that day, thai Lord shall hiss for the fly tliat is in tbe uUermo»l part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria: and they shall come, and sliall rest all of tlicni in the desolate valley, and in the holeft of tlie rock>;, and upon all thoms,i and upon all bushes." That this is spoken Agura* tively of these two great military powers which] the Lord was to bring up from these two landu, manifest both from the verse which precedes ▼lOl^ on THE TKN rftlBtg, 1161) llii:* verses i^Iiicli ftillowK; in lioth of which theking of Asfsyria is expressly mentioned byname, and the desolation he would brin<; is particularlydoscribod inthe verse.'* which foIlo^v to the end cf the chapter. These two icstftnees the only on«s in Scripture where thr expression is used, hcsidos this third time of E|ihri\iin, would Iea<l iis to consrtier that for the same end of judgment and warlike acti*, 18 Ephntim to be hissed for by the I^rd in the latter timc«.^But that this concltision raaynot rest upon analogy merely, let u» atudy the context* beg:iii- teing with the 7th verse of the xlJi chapter of Zcchariah : " And they of Ephraim nhall he like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice tt through wine: yea, their children shall see it and be ghd ; their hearts shall rejoice in tlic Lord.** These figures of a mightyman rejoicing by reason 'of Hnnc. arc used of Ihe Lord himself in the Ixxriiiih Psalm^ " And the joy and <rxult»tion of ihcir heart is like thi- Joy of victor^' and triumph."* Then follows a splendid prophecy oftlieir return, '