h as
it opposes the people of God, and thus, as it were, strives against
God.--_With the violence or terror of His wind_, _i.e._, with His
violent, terrible wind. There is in this an allusion to Exod. xiv. 21,
according to which the Lord dried up the Red Sea by a violent wind.
Against _Drechsler_, who thinks of "God's breathing of anger," first,
this reference to Exod. xiv. 21, and farther, the circumstance that the
[Hebrew: rvH] appears as something which the Lord has in His hand, are
decisive.--In ver. 16 we need not, after "from Asshur," supply the
other nations mentioned in ver. 11, which would be unexampled; but
Asshur appears as the representative of all the enemies of God.
Similarly in Micah also, Asshur is, with evident intention, used
typically; comp. Vol. i. p. 515, 516.

[Footnote 1: Notwithstanding the arguments which we stated in favour of
our proposition, that the original form of the name is [Hebrew: ncr].
_Ebrard_ without even attempting to refute them, assumes, in favour of
a far-fetched conjecture, that the name of the place was written
[Hebrew: nzrt] (_Kritik. d. Ev. Geschichte_ S. 843, 1st Ed.), and has
introduced this opinion even into the text of the new edition of
_Olshausen's_ Commentary, edited by him. The circumstance that
elsewhere _commonly_ the Hebrew [Hebrew: z] is, in Greek, rendered by
[Greek: z], [Hebrew: c] by [Greek: s] is, in this case, where the
special arguments in favour of [Hebrew: ncr] are so strong, of no
consequence.]

[Footnote 2: _Hofmann_ (_Weissagung und Erfuellung._, II. S. 64) was the
last who assumed that the Evangelist had generally in view those
passages in which the lowliness, contempt, and rejection of Christ are
spoken of, and that, in the Old Testament passages in question, the
[Greek: Nazoraios] was not contained according to the letter, but
according to the spirit only. But this is opposed not only by the whole
manner of quotation which is given as a literal one, but also by a
whole series of analogies: Christ's birthplace in Bethlehem, His stay
in Jerusalem, His ministry in Galilee, and especially in Capernaum, His
entrance into Jerusalem,--all these are by Matthew traced back to
prophetical declarations which have a special reference to these
localities. Against the exposition given by us, _Hofmann_ advances the
assertion that neither [Hebrew: ncr] nor [Hebrew: HTr] have ever
attached to them the idea of lowliness, of unassuming appearance. But
even if a