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Interpreter's One Volume Commentary on the Bible (edited by Charles M. Laymon, NY: Abingdon Press, 1971, p. 487):
5:2. The renewal of Judah will be a reenactment of the events of the golden era of David. Though he is not named, the reference to his birthplace, Bethlemeh Ephrathah, as well as other details of the vs. points unmistakably to him (cf. 1 Sam. 16:1; 17:12). The Christian tradition saw in this passage a prohecy of the birth of Jesus (Matt. 2:6).
5:3. The deliverance of Judah must wait on the birth of the expected heir to David's throne...
The International Critical Commentary: Micah, Zephaniah, Nahum, Habkkuk, Obadiah and Joel (by John Merlin Powis Smith, William Hayes Ward, and Julius A. Bewer, Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1911, p. 104)
2... The statement concerning the expected birth is evidently an allusion to Is. 7:15 and comes from a time when that prophecy was being given Messianic significance. This would point to an age long after the days of Isaiah.
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