Thy people also shall be all righteous... — The city is to realise the as yet unfulfilled ideal of Psalms 15 and Psalms 21:5 Evil will be blotted out, and, therefore, there will be no forfeiture of the inheritance. In the “branch” we have the words which had been prominent in Isaiah 11:1, and which is now extended from the ideal representative of the nation to the whole body of the people.

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