change the image has undergone; for they do not mean the spoils of war—they are the reward of labor.86 The people in the procession are not slaves; they are those who have been saved.87 For a person familiar with the biblical tradition—and this may be presupposed with DtIsa and those he is addressing—the very wording makes this clear; for this is the way that Jacob with his herds returned from Haran into the promised land.88 Here we find the term “wages” mentioned (שָׂכָר, Gen 29:15*; 30:32–33*).
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