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 let us go on and on/ i.e., perseveringly until we attain the blessed goal) to entreat the favour (literally, to entreat the face ) of Jehovah and to seek Jehovah " to which the ready and glad response of those invited will be, " / will go also and many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek Jehovah of hosts in Jerusalem, and to entreat the face of Jehovah" all which is but an iteration by the central figure in the group of post-exilic prophets of the glorious announcements concerning " the latter days " made by the former prophets. Thus, for instance, we read both in Isaiah and in Micah, " And it shall come to pass in the latter days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many peoples shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us of His ways, and zve will walk in His paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem" (Isa. ii. 2, 3, R.V.).

The allegorising commentators, according to whom " the literal fulfilment of such passages is a sheer impossi bility " as if it had not been foretold in this very scripture that the fulfilment of the great and glorious things which are here prophesied would appear too " wonderful " and impossible in the eyes of men would have us believe that what is predicted by Isaiah, and Micah, and Zechariah (indeed, by all the prophets) in