[361] Vatke and Stade reject chapters xxx., xxxi., xxxiii., but they are accepted by Driver, Cornill, Kautzsch (for the most part). Giesebrecht assigns them partly to Baruch and partly to a later editor. It is on this account that the full exposition of certain points in xxxii. and elsewhere has been reserved for the present chapter. Moreover, if the cardinal ideas come from Jeremiah, we need not be over-anxious to decide whether the expansion, illustration, and enforcing of them is due to the prophet himself, or to his disciple Baruch, or to some other editor. The question is somewhat parallel to that relating to the discourses of our Lord in the Fourth Gospel.
[362] xvi. 14, 15, xxiii. 7, 8.
[363] i. 10.
[364] xxiv. 6.
[365] xxx. 5-8.
[366] xxx. 12-17.
[367] The two verses xxx. 10, 11, present some difficulty here. According to Kautzsch, and of course Giesebrecht, they are a later addition. The ideas can mostly be paralleled elsewhere in Jeremiah. Verse 11 _b_, "I will correct thee with judgment, and will in no wise leave thee unpunished," seems inconsistent with the context, which represents the punishment as actually inflicted. Still, the verses might be a genuine fragment misplaced. Driver (_Introduction_, 246) says: "The title of honour 'My servant' ... appears to have formed the basis upon which II. Isaiah constructs his great conception of Jehovah's ideal servant."
[368] xxxiii. 2, 3; "earth" is inserted with the LXX. Many regard these verses as a later addition, based on II. Isaiah: cf. Isa. xlviii. 6. The phrase "Jehovah is His name" and the terms "make" and "fashion" are specially common in II. Isaiah. xxxiii. so largely repeats the ideas of xxx. that it is most convenient to deal with them together.
[369] xxxiii. 6-8, slightly paraphrased and condensed.
[370] xxx. 8, 11, 16, 20. Cf. also the chapters on the prophecies concerning foreign nations.
[371] i. 10.
[372] xii. 14. xxx. 23, 24, is apparently a gloss, added as a suitable illustration of this chapter, from xxiii. 19, 20, which are almost identical with these two verses.
[373] xxx. 21.
[374] Cf. Chap. VIII.
[375] xxiii. 3, 4.
[376] iii. 15.
[377] Isa. iv. 2, çemaḥ; A.V. and R.V. Branch, R.V. margin Shoot or Bud.
[378] Isa. xi. 1.
[379] xxv. 5, 6; repeated in xxxiii. 15, 16, with slight variations.
[380] In xxxiii. 14-26 the permanence of the Davidic dynasty, the Levitical priests, and the people of Israel is solemnly assured by a Divine promise. These verses are not found in the LXX., and are considered by many to be a later addition; see Kautzsch, Giesebrecht, Cheyne, etc. They are mostly of a secondary character--15, 16, = xxiii. 5, 6; here Jerusalem and not its king is called Jehovah C̦idqenu, possibly because the addition was made when there was no visible prospect of the restoration of the Davidic dynasty. Verse 17 is based on the original promise in 2 Sam. vii. 14-16, and is equivalent to Jer. xxii. 4, 30. The form and substance of the Divine promise imitate xxxi. 35-37.
[381] xxx. 18-20.
[382] xxxiii. 10-13.
[383] xxiii. 3, 4.
[384] iv. 19.
[385] xxiii. 6.
[386] xxx. 10.
[387] Isa. xxxiii. 16-21: cf. xxxii. 15-18.
[388] xxxiii. 11.
[389] xxx. 9.
[390] xxx. 21, as Kautzsch.
[391] xxxiii. 9.