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xxxii, 15, 16; xxxiii, 9;xxxv, 2 ; xxxvii, 24; lxv, 10, and in a dozen 

 or more other passages distributed amongst nearly all the writers 

 to whom the book has been ascribed. The foregoing are only 

 examples of similar repetitions and quotations from undisputed 

 and disputed passages alike, of which I have published elsewhere 

 a lengthy list. If such repetitions do not appear in every one 

 of these supposed writers, it must be remembered that some of 

 them contribute only a chapter or even half a chapter. 



Two more instances of the kind deserve special notice. We 

 have "treacherous dealers," a phrase which occurs repeatedly in 

 several of the writers among whom the book is divided. The 

 words " treacherous " and " treacherously " occur amongst the 

 other prophets, but never together, and they are never repeated 

 twice, as in Isaiah xxi, 2 — 



" The treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, 

 And the spoiler spoileth." 



And again in chap, xxiv, 16, we have — 



" But I said, 

 My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me ! 

 The treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously ; 

 Yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously." 



And in chap, xxxiii, 1, we have — 



" Woe to thee that spoilest and thou wast not spoiled, 

 And dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously 

 with thee ! 



When thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled ; 

 And when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they 

 shall deal treacherously with thee." 



And these three passages are assigned to three different 

 authors. 



The phrase " in that day " occurs nearly forty times in 

 Isaiah i-xxxv — chapters ascribed to the undisputed Isaiah and 

 some eight other authors. If we include analogous phrases such 

 as " the day of the Lord," " the day of the Lord's vengeance/' 

 " the day," and other similar expressions, they occur more than 

 fifty times. In the " second " Isaiah they occur only once — in 

 chap, lii, 6- — but the reason is obvious. The words are in- 

 variably used of a day of vengeance and judgment, but the last 

 twenty-seven chapters of the book are devoted exclusively to 

 God's promises. 



(5) The abundant use of paronomasia or the repetition of 

 the same sound. Thus we have hoi (ah), got (nation), in i, 4 ; 



