[879] That which shall abide and be the stock of the future.
[880] LXX. cast off.
[881] Schultz, A. T. Theol., p. 722.
[882] See above, pp. [276] ff.
[883] Wellhausen declares that this is unsuitable to the position of Jerusalem in the eighth century, and virtually implies her ruin and desolation. But, on the contrary, it is not so: Jerusalem is still standing, though alone (cf. the similar figure in Isa. i.). Consequently the contradiction which Wellhausen sees between this eighth verse and vv. 9, 10, does not exist. He grants that the latter may belong to the time of Sennacherib's invasion—unless it be a vaticinium post eventum!
[885] This in answer to Wellhausen, who thinks the two oracles incompatible, and that the second one is similar to the eschatological prediction common from Ezekiel onwards. Jerusalem, however, is surely still standing.
[886] Even Wellhausen agrees that this verse is most suitably dated from the time of Micah.
[887] Those who maintain the exilic date understand by this Jehovah Himself. In any case it may be He who is meant.
[888] The words in parenthesis are perhaps a gloss.