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17. Jerusalem--the whole city, not merely the temple. As it has
been the center of the Hebrew theocracy, so it shall be the point of
attraction to the whole earth
(Isa 2:2-4;
Zec 2:10, 11; 14:16-21).
throne of . . . Lord--The Shekinah, the symbol of God's peculiar
nearness to Israel
(De 4:7)
shall be surpassed by the antitype, God's own throne in Jerusalem
(Ps 2:6, 8;
Eze 34:23, 24;
Zec 2:5).
imagination--rather, as Margin, "the obstinacy" or stubbornness.
JFB.
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