Chapter ix, verse 21: "Manasseh and Ephraim, and Ephraim and Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah," etc. He talks in a confused, mystified fashion, alluding now to this people, now to that; at one time to the Tribes and at another to the Moabites, Assyrians, then to Egypt or Zion; dreams of tyrants, hypocrites, and his hopes revived about the remnants of Israel. When he speaks of the child he has not the remotest dream of Christ. He has no foreknowledge, except what his judgment suggests. He feels annoyed and irritated, then his hope and aspiration soothe and comfort him, and in chapter xi he describes a most happy state of affairs: "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them" (verse 6). "And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together, and the lion shall eat straw like an ox" (xi, 7), etc. The wildest and most extravagant kinds of interpretation are given to various passages in Isaiah. Into them the theologians force a meaning: Chapter xxxv, 1: "The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose." Christians say it means the joyful flourishing of Christ's kingdom. In chapter xliii, verse 2, Jehova declares: "I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no savior." He repeats it in chapter xliv, verse 6: "I am the first, and I am the last, and beside me there is no God." Verse 8: "Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any." Chapter xlix: "Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken ye people from afar; the Lord hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name." This is supposed to mean, Christ being sent to the Jews complaineth of them. Chapter lv: "Thus saith the Lord, where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold! for your iniquities you have sold yourselves, and for your transgression is your mother put away." It is said that this means, Christ sheweth that the dereliction of the Jews is not to be imputed to him, by his ability to save. This is the Christian interpretation of the above passage. It is a misrepresentation of facts as well as meaning. Why twist, torture, and falsify it?