Introduction
And now what follows? Joy, indeed, to the true Davidic royalty, but not through any incumbent or successor then having title to the throne. Isaiah even passes by David. It is no longer royal lineage, but a going back as if to begin anew the line of Jesse, the sire of David, the farmer of Bethlehem. The apostatized house of David is like a tree become dead, first at the top, then at the branches, then at the trunk, till it falls, leaving vitality only at the stump; leaving the root still fresh, but without stem, branches, or crown. When the great world-kingdom, Assyria, is at its height of strength, like the glorious Lebanon forest, the fleshly house of David is in its uttermost depth, according to the prior warning of Isaiah 6:9-13, mutilated and reduced to its low Bethlehem origin. But the tables will turn, and the Eastern great imperial power is to fall, and the house of David is to start anew with glorious renewal of its youth.
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