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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 13, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 2.

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PRISONERS AND FREEMEN.

By Editor

BEING unable to furnish the current Sabbath-school lesson for the Commentary Department this week, we occupy a portion of the space answering the following questions which we have received:—
"Who is addressed in Isa. 49:8, 9? Who are the prisoners, and when and from what are they to be freed? P. B."
The verses referred to read thus:—
"Thus saith the Lord, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee; and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages; that thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the way, and their pastures shall be in all high places."