IV Eclogue. Although there are occasional hints in the primordial history of Genesis that the alienation from God also produced enmity between man and beast (3:15; 9:2ff.), this concept was never fully developed and only infrequently shimmers behind the text. Rather, the portrayal of universal peace in this chapter is set within an eschatological context (Hos. 2:20[18]) and is an expansion of the picture of the future harmony among the peoples who flow to the holy mountain (Isa. 11:9). The prophetic
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