Verses 14-15
14, 15. He shall be for a sanctuary The context and its scope require this word to mean here, refuge, place of safety a figure for the MESSIAH himself.
Stone of stumbling A stone against which one dangerously strikes; over which, too, it is perilous for one to fall. Similar is the meaning of the next phrase.
A gin The figure is changed a trap to express another side to the peril of Israel and Judah in neglecting to make Jehovah their absolute trust.
Many among them Many, by the invasion which the Assyrian shall make. The repetition, here, of figures synonymous as to meaning is to be regarded as a strong poetic emphasis, and by such emphasis certainty of peril to unbelieving Israel and Judah is intended.
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