“For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness.”
The transformation of iron to gold, copper to silver, and wood to iron, stones to iron represents material enhancement and transformation of the physical world in eschatological restoration. The verse's progression toward harder, stronger materials suggests increasing durability and value. The shift from natural materials to metals indicates artifactual transformation: even the city's material composition undergoes enhancement. This verse's vision of cosmological transformation suggests that eschatological salvation includes not merely human but material-cosmic renewal.
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