new revelation for them.”54 He is pursued by the admonition which Is 34 (a chapter to which he relates in several ways) formulates in v. 16*: “Seek from the book of Yahweh and read: Not one of them shall be missing, … for his mouth has commanded, and his spirit has gathered them.” Thus we are confronted here with a “learned prophecy” that takes up the received eschatological message with a burning passion for knowledge, and with the help of sapiential training, and gives it new expression in
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