2. Address of the returning people to the gates of Jerusalem
(type of the heavenly city,
Heb 12:22);
(Ps 24:7, 9; 118:19).
Antitypically
(Re 22:14; 21:25, 27).
righteous nation--that had not apostatized during the captivity.
HORSLEY translates, "The nation of the Just One,"
namely, the Jews.
JFB.
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