. The training of the Chosen people. profaned in the i6o Old Testament History earth, as if He were not able to care for His own(Ezek. 36:20). The reconstituted Israel will be theglorious vindication of Jehovah. It will not simplymanifest His power, but His righteousness, for it willshow that the calamities of Israel were not due to theweakness of Jehovah, but to the primacy of holiness inHis character (Ezek. 36: 36; 37: 28). Still further Ezekiel reminds the exiles that it isvain for man to put limits to the resources of Jeho-vah. The redemption and re-establishment of Israelmay appear hopele
. The training of the Chosen people. profaned in the i6o Old Testament History earth, as if He were not able to care for His own(Ezek. 36:20). The reconstituted Israel will be theglorious vindication of Jehovah. It will not simplymanifest His power, but His righteousness, for it willshow that the calamities of Israel were not due to theweakness of Jehovah, but to the primacy of holiness inHis character (Ezek. 36: 36; 37: 28). Still further Ezekiel reminds the exiles that it isvain for man to put limits to the resources of Jeho-vah. The redemption and re-establishment of Israelmay appear hopeless to the eye of human wisdom, butJehovah can re-people with living men the valley ofdry bones (Ezek. 37: 1-14). If the exiles in Babylon were to take any hopefulview of their future it must be on the basis of faith inJehovah. Ezekiel pointed out the way to such confi-dence. And the magnificent Hebrew optimist basedhis hopes upon considerations that appeal to humanityto-day with all their original force. <j^0i<&-r &*4L. Brick from Babylon, Stamped withNebuchadnezzars Name. Nebuchadnezzar was a great builder,and many bricks bearing his name arefound among the ruins of Babylon. Chapter 43. The Blessing to Mankind 161 CHAPTER XLIII. THE BLESSING TO Chs. 40-55. The large majority of Biblical scholars attribute thepart of the book of Isaiah which begins with the for-tieth chapter to a prophet who lived in Babylon nearthe close of the exile. A full century and a half sep-arates this writer from the statesman-prophet of thereign of Hezekiah. About thirty years after the fall of Jerusalem thehearts of the exiles in Babylon were stirred by theprophetic announcement, through the lips of Isaiah ofBabylon, that the period of captivity was drawing to aclose. We may imagine the consternation and the joywith which the exiles heard such words as these froman accredited prophet of Jehovah: Comfort ye, com-fort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye com-fortably to Jerusalem; a
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