‏ Isaiah 59:17

Verse 17. For clothing-"For his clothing"] tilbosheth. "I cannot but think that this word, tilbosheth, is an interpolation. 1. It is in no one ancient version. 2. It is redundant in the sense, as it is before expressed in bigdey. 3. It makes the hemistich just so much longer than it ought to be, if it is compared with the others adjoining. 4. It makes a form of construction in this clause less elegant than that in the others. 5. It might probably be in some margin a various reading for bigdey, and thence taken into the text. This is more probable, as its form is such as it would be if it were in regimine, as it must be before nakam."-Dr. JUBB. Two sorts of armour are mentioned: a breast-plate and a helmet, to bring righteousness and salvation to those who fear him; and the garments of vengeance and the cloak of zeal for the destruction of all those who finally oppose him, and reject his Gospel.

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