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In order therefore to gain freshness, I resolved to peruse the entire prophecy of the pseudo-Isaiah in Lowth's version, from ch. xl. onward, at a single sitting. This prophet writes from Babylon, and has his vision full of the approaching restoration of his people by Cyrus, whom he addresses by name.
Dore's ideal portrait is more suited to the second or pseudo-Isaiah, than to the real one. Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it. By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the Lord.
The style of these last twenty-seven chapters, also, is different, and the tone is more elevated and spiritual. Dore's ideal portrait is more suited to the second or pseudo-Isaiah, than to the real one. Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
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