Isa 19:18

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that day.

Isa 19:19; Isa 19:21; Isa 2:11; Zech 2:11

shall five.

Isa 11:11; Isa 27:13; Ps 68:31

speak.

Zep 3:9

language. Heb. lip.

Ge 11:1

and swear.

Isa 45:23; Isa 45:24; Deut 10:20; Neh 10:29; Jer 12:16

destruction. Heb. Heres, or, the sun.

Instead of {heres,} "destruction," which is also the reading of Aquila, Theodotion, and the Syriac, fifteen MSS. and seven editions have {cheres,} "the sun;" agreeable to Symmachus, the Arabic, and Vulagte; while the Chaldee takes in both readings; and the LXX. reads [polis asedek,] "the city of righteousness," a name apparently contrived by the party of Onias, to give credit to his temple.

As, however, {heres} in Arabic signifies a lion, Conrad Ikenius is of opinion that the place here mentioned is not Heliopolis, as is commonly supposed, but Leontopolis in the Heliopolitan nome, as it is termed in the letter of Onias to Ptolemy.

The whole passage, from this verse to the end, contains a general intimation of the propagation of the knowledge of the true God in Egypt and Syria, under the successors of Alexander, and the early reception of the gospel in the same countries.