A 15th-century rabbi in Spain, explains the section thus: "This passage the commentators explain, speaks of the captivity of Israel. Although the singular number is used in it throughout. Others have supposed it to mean the just in this present world, who are crushed and oppressed now........but these too, for the same reason, by altering the number distort the verses from their natural meaning... having forsaken the knowledge of our Teachers, and inclined 'after the stubbornness of their own hearts.' And of their own opinion. I am pleased to interpret it, in accordance with the teaching of our Rabbis, of the King Messiah."
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