is talking about the peace that will be characteristic of redeemed mankind. It is talking about how redeemed people will be people of peace; how they no longer act in an evil or malicious way, because the land is filled with the knowledge of God, which covers the earth as water does. Redeemed people—as this passage shows us—live on the basis of their closeness to God and on his reality, so that quite of their own accord they become people of peace. Yet what has become of this vision in the Church,