371. This even happened just now, that doubts were clinging to them about [meanings drawn] from the Law that were round about me. But that this is what is meant, and not the destruction of Moab in the proper sense, can be clearly concluded from the particulars. For without these meanings, there would be no sense to all the words of this prophet in this passage, which otherwise, in its literal meaning, is so vague that no one can draw anything from it. The ford of Arnon is toward the wilderness, where is "the lamb of the ruler of the land from the rock* toward the wilderness, to the mount of the daughter of Zion" [verse 1]. The "lamb of the ruler of the land" in the highest sense is God the Messiah, Who is the Lamb of God, the same as the Lamb of the Ruler of the land, Which Lamb "takes away the sins of the world" [John 1:29].** * KJV has "...to the ruler of the land from Sela..." ** This paragraph is emphasized in the original by the word "Obs." written twice in the margin.