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 —something happens which shall inaugurate a still more glorious future. Whether this event be the advent of a person—an ideal Ruler—who shall take the sceptre out of Judah's hands, or a crisis in the fortunes of Judah which shall raise that tribe to the height of its destiny, is a question on which no final opinion can be expressed (see below).—and to him] Either Judah, or the predicted Ruler, according to the interpretation of $10bα$.—obedience of peoples] Universal dominion, which, however, need not be understood absolutely.

The crux of the passage is thus $10bα$:. For a fuller statement of the various interpretations than is here possible, see Werliin, De laudibus Judæ, 1838 (not seen); Dri. J Ph. xiv. 1-28 (and

open to question, and we are free to try any pronunciation of the Kethîb which promises a solution of the exegetical riddle with which we are confronted. In spite of the unanimity of the Vns., the pointing is suspicious for the reasons given above,—the presence of — in an early document, and the want of a subj. in the relative sentence. On the other hand, the attempts to connect the word with [root], 'be quiet,' are all more or less dubious. (a) There is no complete parallel in Heb. to a noun like from a  root. If it be of the type qîtôl, the regular form would be ; although Kön. (ii. p. 147) argues that as we find alongside of, so we might have a  alongside of . Again, if ô be an apocopated form of the nominal termination ôn, the [root] would naturally be not but  (in Arab. = 'flow,' whence seil, 'a torrent') or. It is true there are a few examples of unapocopated nouns of this type from verbs (,  [Ezk. 40$15$?],  [Gn. 3$16$† —prob. an error for the reg., Hos. 9$11$, Ru. 4$13$† ]); and the possibility of deriving the form in ô from a root of this kind cannot be absolutely excluded (cf. with ). (b) But even if these philological difficulties could be removed, there remains the objection that (as contrasted with ) is in OT at most a negative word, denoting mere tranquillity rather than full and positive prosperity, and is often used of the careless worldly ease of the ungodly. For all these reasons it is difficult to acquiesce in the view that can be a designation of the Messiah as the Peaceful or the Pacifier; while to change the pointing and render till tranquillity  'come,' is exposed to the additional objection that the of the following line is left without an antecedent.—] (Pr. 30$17$† ) ''Dag. forte dirimens''. The [root] appears in Ar. waḳiha, 'be obedient'; Sab. . That a vb. (?) would be more natural (Ba.) is not apparent; the vbs. in T$OJ$ paraphrase the sense given above. The [root] was evidently not understood by GΘ, V (expectatio), Aq. , S all of which probably derived from [root] (Aq. from [root], II.: BDB).