Verse 10
10. In this mountain Zion, symbol again of God’s located presence and power, namely, his Church.
Hand… rest The term “hand” is usually employed as an emblem of active power; it is here used as the pledge of the Church’s security from hostility without a protection, and that hostility to Zion the Jews more readily and keenly apprehended when it was expressed in connexion with a “household” name of an ever bitter enemy to the Jews. Usually that name was Edom or Moab. Here it is Moab. Moab’s hostility is to have the fate of the refuse, dirt, and filth of each Palestinian town removal to the dunghill, which to this day is everywhere in the villages a conspicuous object.
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