3. Is not this verse the change of position of the believing Remnant, whom Christ calls His brethren? They had become the Church, and had ceased to be identified with the interests of Israel (though grieving over the nation which had rejected Messiah) but now the Remnant of His, Christ's, brethren return unto the children of Israel, identify themselves again with the nation, and the earthly part of Christ's power takes place.
5. In Micah, when it is a question of Babylon, there is no king of the Assyrian—‘This man shall be the peace'; compare Isa. 10 and 11.