13. above . . . God —In :- , "stars" express earthly potentates. "The stars" are often also used to express heavenly principalities ( Job 38:7 ). mount of the congregation —the place of solemn meeting between God and His people in the temple at Jerusalem. In Daniel 11:37 ; 2 Thessalonians 2:4 , this is attributed to Antichrist. sides of the north —namely, the sides of Mount Moriah on which the temple was built; north of Mount Zion ( Psalms 48:2 ). However, the parallelism supports the notion that the Babylonian king expresses himself according to his own, and not Jewish opinions (so in Isaiah 10:10 ) thus "mount of the congregation" will mean the northern mountain (perhaps in Armenia) fabled by the Babylonians to be the common meeting-place of their gods. "Both sides" imply the angle in which the sides meet; and so the expression comes to mean " the extreme parts of the north." So the Hindus place the Meru, the dwelling-place of their gods, in the north, in the Himalayan mountains. So the Greeks, in the northern Olympus. The Persian followers of Zoroaster put the Ai-bordsch in the Caucasus north of them. The allusion to the stars harmonizes with this; namely, that those near the North Pole, the region of the aurora borealis (compare see on Isaiah 10:10- : ; Job 37:22 ) [MAURER, Septuagint, Syriac ]. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-14" class="com-number"
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