“Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.”
The rhetorical question asks who has heard such a thing and who has seen such things, following with the answer that a land will be born in one day and a nation brought forth at once. The unprecedented speed of nation-creation indicates eschatological transformation exceeding natural processes. The image of cosmic acceleration suggests that time itself is transformed: what normally requires generations occurs instantaneously. The assertion of unprecedented transformation indicates eschatological rupture: the new world operates according to different principles. This verse's eschatological vision articulates transformation so radical it transcends normal causality and time.
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