xxxv. 5, 6. _Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened,
&c._
This beautiful prophecy is not exhausted by the first fulfilment of
the promise which immediately precedes. However great the political
deliverance, it did not include the literal giving of sight to the
blind or hearing to the deaf. Nor is it only poetic imagery. It
points to something in the time of the Messiah, to whose
manifestation the scheme of Old Testament history and prophecy is
subordinate. We find in this text--