so obviously we are to think of supernatural causation. Hengstenberg comments: We have here a representation of the Messianic salvation which, though at first comparatively insignificant, will continue to expand with ever increasing fulness and glory. Compare [Ezek 17:]22, 23, where the Messiah appears as a tender twig, which afterwards grows to a large cedar; and the parables of the mustard seed in Matt. [13:]31, 32, and the leaven in [Mt 13:]33.26 Similarly, Keil cites Is 12:3 and 44:3 to support