II. 1. The Lxx. paraphrases this heading to the chapter, and loses the important word ‘saw,’ for which cf. i. ι, xiii. 1, xxx. 10, and the opening words of Amos, Obadiah, Micah, Nahum, and Habakkuk. Ezekiel, i. 1, uses a different verb, the same as in Isai. vi. 1, Amos ix. 1 cf. 1 Sam. ix. 9.

2—4. Opinions differ as to these verses, as to whether they original here, or in Micah iv. 1—3, or copied by both prophets from earlier source. Many authorities think them more naturally placed in Micah, as regards sequence of thought: “the passage fits naturally into its context” (Sinker); “in any case they are not original in Isaiah” (Delitzsch). On the other hand, Micah appears to have been a younger contemporary of Isaiah, and Mic. iii., iv. to date from the time of Hezekiah; whereas Isa. ii.—iv. are placed by practically authorities not later than the beginning of Ahaz’ reign. The that both prophets borrowed from an earlier source is adopted by many critics as a way out of the dilemma; or else that the passage “was assigned by some collectors to Isaiah and by others to Micah” (Prof. A. B. Davidson, in the Temple ample Bible). Other passages are found, common to two prophets; in which case decision is difficult, but there is a tendency, if one prophet uses the words as a sort of starting- point, to suppose them original in the other; see, for instance, Joel iii. 16 and Amos i. 2. But the adapter of the words would be likely to take some care in placing them; as Micah may have done, see Prof. Cheyne, ad loan; and many commentators, later as well as earlier, think they detect likeness to the style of Isaiah here. Isaiah's transitions, moreover, are frequently and markedly abrupt. On the whole, his claim to the original authorship has scarcely been disproved.

2. τὸ ὅρος τοῦ Κυρίου καὶ ὅ οἶκος τοῦ Θεοῦ] Both here and in Micah the Heb. has this as one expression, ‘the mountain of the Lord's house,’ which is afterwards divided into a parallel.

ἐμφανὲς] ἕτοιμον in Micah has this as a duplicate rendering of ABBREV, ‘established’: cf. Hosea

ἥξουσιν] In Micah, σπεύσουσιν. Vulgate, fluent, better gives the force of the Hebrew, shall ‘flow’ or ‘stream’; and so in Jerem. xxxi. (xxxviii.) 12 ἥξουσιν, li. xxviii.) 44 συναχθῶσιν, Vulg. confluent