himself is expressly addressed.--As regards אחרון, either כעת may be supplied,--and this is simplest and most natural--or it may be taken as an Accusative, "for the whole after-time."--הקל means properly to "make light," then "to make contemptible," "to cover with disgrace," and הכביד properly then, "to make heavy," "to honour,"--a signification which indeed is peculiar to _Piel_, but in which the _Hiphil_, too, occurs in Jer. xxx. 19; the two verbs thus form an antithesis. The ה _locale_ in ארצה (the word does not occur in Isaiah with the ה _paragog._) shews that a certain modification of the verbal notion must be assumed: "to bring disgrace and honour." ארצה thus would mean "towards the land." The scene of the disgrace and honour, which at first was designated in general only, is afterwards _extended_. First, the land of Zebulun and Naphtali only is mentioned, because it was upon it that the disgrace had pre-eminently fallen, and it was, therefore, pre-eminently to be brought to honour; then the whole territory along the sea on both sides of it.--ים can, in this context which serves for a more definite qualification, mean the sea of Gennesareth only (ים כנרת Numb. xxxiv. 11, and other passages), just as, in Matt. iv. 13, the designation of Capernaum as ἡ παραθαλασσία receives its definite meaning from the context.--דרך occurs elsewhere also in the signification of _versus_, _e.g._, Ezek. viii. 5, xl. 20, 46; it will be necessary to supply after it ארץ, just as in the case of the עבר הירדן following. It is without any instance that דרך "way" should stand for "region," "country." The region on the sea is then divided into its two parts עבר הירדן, πέραν τοῦ Ἰορδάνου, the land on the east bank of Jordan, and Galilee. The latter answers to the land of Zebulun and Naphtali; for the territory of these two tribes occupied the centre and principal part of Galilee. In opposition to the established _usus loquendi_, many would understand עבר הירדן as meaning the land "on the side," _i.e._, this side "of the Jordan," proceeding upon the supposition that the local designations must, from beginning to end, be congruous. Opposed to it is also the circumstance that, in 2 Kings, xv. 29, the most eastward and most northward countries, Peraea and Galilee are connected. [Pg 73] In that passage the single places are mentioned which Tiglath-pilezer took; then, the whole districts, "Gilead and Galilee, the whole land of Naphtali." By the latter words, that part of Galilee is made especially prominent upon which the catastrophe fell most severely and completely. In the phrase, "Galilee of the Gentiles," Galilee is a geographical designation which was already current at the time of the Prophet. There is no reason for fixing the extent of ancient Galilee differently from that of the more modern Galilee,--for assigning to it a more limited extent. We are told in 1 Kings ix. 11, that the twenty cities which Solomon gave to Hiram lay in the land of