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Matthew 4:15

Matthew 4:15

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

The land of Zabulon, etc. From , , spoiled in the Authorized Version, but rendered correctly in the Revised Version. Isaiah says that those parts of the land which had borne the first brunt of the Assyrian invasions under Tiglath-Pileser (; el.

), shall be proportionately glorified by the advent of Messiah. Wetstein gives a tradition from the 'Pesikt. Zut.,' of Messiah ben Joseph first appearing in Galilee; hut the whole passage clearly points to a knowledge of the New Testament.

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