[[7]] Isa. xl. 13. Cf. Job xxxviii. 4; xli. 11; Wisd. ix. 13.
[[8]] Jer. xxxviii. 4.
[[9]] Ezek. xvi. 61.
[[10]] See above, vol. i. 3.
[[11]] Ezek. xxxvii.
[[12]] See my Ephesians, pp. 258 ff.
[[13]] Quoted, with much other illustrative matter, by Weber, l.c., pp. 293 ff. The fancy is based on 1 Kings xix. 36; Exod. xxxii. 13. Cf. on Cant. i. 5, 'I am black but comely'—'The congregation of Israel speaks: I am black through mine own works, but lovely through the works of my fathers.'
[[14]] Ezek. xiv. 14.
[[15]] 1 Cor. vii. 14.
[[16]] 'All Israel,' in 1 Kings xii. 1, 2 Chron. xii. 1, Dan. ix. 11, means 'Israel in general.'