Verse 25
25. The wolf and the lamb shall feed together Here is an allusion to Isaiah 11:6-7; Isaiah 11:9, there connected with the vision of Immanuel, here connected with Isaiah’s closing prophetic message. Here the figures are abridged in number, but they bear a similar, indeed identical, meaning in both, as to the moral state of the world intended in the description in both places. Herein are links binding together the two great sections of a one great prophetic system by one and the same great prophet.
And dust shall be the serpent’s meat This is a unique addition to the passage in chap.
11, It alludes to the two main features of the earliest promise the gift of the Seed of the woman and the sentence upon the old serpent. Genesis 3:14-15. The allegory has this meaning: While all untamed natures among human souls blend together in harmony and peace under Messiah’s rule, the primeval curse shall rest with ever-increasing weight upon Satan figured as a serpent and he become at length completely vanquished, wriggling powerless and harmless, biting only the dust on which he helplessly affects to crawl.
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