This enumerates the several classes of the inhabitants at Tyrus during _the last siege_, and that all (save the exception in the next Prophecy) should be slain or made captive, found within the walls, but the King,--he is the solitary exception, and that this was fulfilled is proved from classic history, and which we have endeavoured to illustrate in the previous chapter. 5TH PROPHECY. This distinctly states that a "remnant" of the nation should be rescued from the Alexandrian destruction. The prediction is comprehended in the following words of ISAIAH: "In the city is left desolation [_i. e._ massacre], and the gate is smitten with destruction [_i. e._ with the storming]. When THUS it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall _be as the shaking of an olive-tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done_." These figures of speech from many proofs in Scripture (as previously given, Vol. i., Book ii., ch. v.), mean that _a Remnant shall be saved_. This was fulfilled,--through the instrumentality of the friendly Sidonians, as already shewn. This is, also, on the authority of acknowledged history,--though Arrian in merely alluding to the fact, has, of course, no reference to any fulfilment of Prophecy, of which it may be presumed that he was entirely ignorant as to its existence,--or if not, he had no belief in its sacred character; but neither of these points destroy the record of the fact of the Sidonians having rescued the "remnant" during the Siege. 6TH PROPHECY. This foretels the _means_ of escape to be employed by the last of the Tyrians,--that it should be by _navigation_, not by land;--this is gathered conclusively from the lines immediately following the preceding quotation, wherein the natural thanksgiving upon such an escape is also expressed:-- "They [the remnant] shall lift up their voices, they shall sing aloud _from the_ SEA!" (_i. e._ Mediterranean.) The proof of the fulfilment of this Prophecy is the same as that employed to establish the previous one,--viz., the Sidonian Galleys.