12. In the first restoration Judah alone was restored, with perhaps
some few of Israel (the ten tribes): in the future restoration both
are expressly specified
(Eze 37:16-19;
Jer 3:18).
To Israel are ascribed the "outcasts" (masculine); to Judah the
"dispersed" (feminine), as the former have been longer and more utterly
castaways (though not finally) than the latter
(Joh 7:52).
The masculine and feminine conjoined express the universality of
the restoration.
from the four corners of the earth--Hebrew, "wings of the
earth."
JFB.
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