loyalty to her unseen King, to rest secure and invulnerable under his protection (Psa. 89:18 and preceding).4 The primary ministry of the prophets, therefore, was patriotic and intensely ethical. They saw peace for Israel only through righteousness (Isa. 32:17, for example).5 Nothing else would answer. On that high condition and no other would Jehovah throw about the land which he had given to his people the invisible wall of his protection; on that condition and no other should the people be at
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