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Isaiæ 51:31
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Currens obviam currenti veniet, et nuntius obvius nuntianti, ut annuntiet regi Babylonis quia capta est civitas ejus a summo usque ad summum.
Currens obviam currenti veniet,
et nuntius obvius nuntianti,
ut annuntiet regi Babylonis
quia capta est civitas ejus a summo usque ad summum.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
post: Jeremiah 4:20, Jeremiah 50:24, 1 Samuel 4:12-18, 2 Samuel 18:19-31, 2 Chronicles 30:6, Esther 3:13-15, Esther 8:10, Esther 8:14, Job 9:25
to show: Jeremiah 50:43, Isaiah 21:3-9, Isaiah 47:11-13, Daniel 5:2-5, Daniel 5:30
Reciprocal: Job 1:14 - messenger Job 1:18 - there came Psalms 127:1 - the watchman
Gill's Notes on the Bible
One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another,.... That is, one post should be after another, and one messenger after another, post upon post, and messenger upon messenger, as fast as they could run; when one had been with his message, and delivered it, and returned, he meets another; or they met one another, coming from different places:
to show the king of Babylon his city is taken at [one] end; or, "at the end" l; we render it "one end", as Kimchi does; at the end where Cyrus's army first landed, when they came up the channel of the river Euphrates they had drained. And so Herodotus m says, that when the Babylonians, which inhabited the "extreme parts" of the city, were taken, they that were in the middle of it were not sensible of it, because of the greatness of the city; and the rather, because they were engaged that night in feasting and dancing. Nay, Aristotle n says, it was reported that one part of the city was taken three days before the other end knew it, it being more like a country than a city; which does not seem credible, nor is it consistent with the Scripture account of it; however, it was taken by surprise, and some parts of it before the king was aware of it; who very probably had his palace in the middle of it, whither these messengers ran one after another, or from different parts, to acquaint him with it.
l מקצה "a fine", Montanus; "ab extremitate", Calvin, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, De Dieu, Schmidt. m L. 1. sive Clio, c. 191. n Politic. l. 3. c. 3.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The royal palace was a strong fortification in the heart of the city. The messengers thus met one another.
At one end - Rather, from all sides, entirely, completely.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Jeremiah 51:31. One post shall run to meet another — As the city was taken by surprise, in the manner already related, so now messengers, one after another, were despatched to give the king information of what was done; viz., that the city was taken at one end. Herodotus tells us that the extreme parts of the city were taken, before those of the centre knew any thing of the invasion. Herodot. lib. i. c. 191.
