nation to serve another in their devotion to God. In favor of this it may be argued that the highway is said to go from Egypt to Assyria, and that Assyria is first mentioned as coming to Egypt. If, on the other hand, the second rendering be accepted, we are to understand that the service of Egypt and Assyria together is one that finds its object in the Lord. Commentators rather generally have adopted this latter position, assuming at the same time that there is an intended allusion to the ordinary