Verse 9
9. From the top of the rocks From which he thought that he might most effectually curse the people; but the sight of them did so amaze him that he blessed them.
Shall dwell alone This predicts not so much quietude and safety as unprecedented separation from all the Gentile world. This isolation was manifested to the natural eye of the seer in the fact that the Israelites were then dwelling in a separate encampment on the plain. “In this his spirit discerned the inward and essential separation of Israel from all the heathen.” Baumgarten. As soon as they lost this peculiarity by copying heathen ways they lost their independence.
Shall not be reckoned Literally, shall not reckon itself among the Gentiles, having a different God and Defender. The capacity of the Jews to resist absorption into the nations among which they have been scattered for eighteen centuries is one of the world’s perpetual wonders. The Jews are a standing, incontrovertible proof of the truth of revelation.
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