イザヤ書 60:10-14 JCB

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 60:1-22

The Church triumphant. With other eyes than ours the Jews must have read these glowing words. They saw in them a fascinating picture of a triumphant people; they saw the Jerusalem of their knowledge and of their love made strong and glorious in some coming time. Their patriotic hopes were kindled and must have been raised to a white heat of intensity as they dwelt on the gladdening, transporting promise. In the midst of surrounding darkness covering the whole earth ( Isaiah 60:2 ), Zion... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 60:10

The sons of strangers shall build up thy walls . Cyrus aided in the supply of timber for the construction of the second temple ( Ezra 3:7 ). Artaxerxes Longimanus sanctioned the rebuilding of the wall of Jerusalem ( Nehemiah 1:3 ; Nehemiah 2:5-8 ). The passage has, however, a meaning beyond the literal one. "Strangers" of all kinds, Greeks, and Romans, and Syrians, and Africans, and Cauls, and Spaniards, and others, assisted in building and enlarging the walls of the Church as it... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 60:10-14

The third stanza. Zion's reconstruction. read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 60:11

Thy gates shall be open continually . That all who seek salvation may have free access at all times. There is no fear of enemies entering, since war has ceased ( Isaiah 2:4 ; Isaiah 11:9 , etc.). The forces of the Gentiles; rather, the wealth of the Gentiles , as in Isaiah 60:5 . That their kings may be brought; i.e. forced to come by their subjects, who know that their own prosperity is involved in complete submission to the Church established in Zion, and therefore compel their... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 60:11

Open gospel-gates. "Thy gates also shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night." Compare the picture of the new Jerusalem, in Revelation 21:25 , "And the gates thereof shall in no wise be shut by day (for there shall be no night there): and they shall bring the glory and the honour of the nations into it." The figure is taken from a country in which the cities were defended by walls and gates, and these gates were closed at night. Closed gates represented the old... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 60:12

The nation … that will not serve thee shall perish . God's curse shall be upon them; they shall wither and decay for lack of the Divine favour and of the graces which God dispenses to mankind through his Church (comp. Zechariah 14:17-19 ). read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 60:12

The condition of national prosperity. "Every nation shall fall unless it serves the Lord, the righteous God, the God of Israel, through whom alone is salvation. The figure of serving Israel means serving the God of Israel" (Matthew Arnold). Foerster remarks that "the Roman pontiffs abuse this oracle of the prophet to establish their tyranny over monarchs. In particular, it is recorded of Pius IV ; that at the time of his election he caused a coin to be struck, on one side of which was his... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 60:13

The glory of Lebanon shall come (comp. Isaiah 35:2 ; Isaiah 41:19 ). Considered as imagery, the representation is that the barren hills which stand about Jerusalem shall, in the new state of things, be decked with tall and beautiful forest trees, all the sylvan scenery of Lebanon being transported to Southern Palestine, so as to encompass the city of God with a garden as delightful as that of Eden. The spiritual meaning is that graces of all kinds shall abound in and around the holy... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 60:13

Glorifying the second temple. There are no records of such overwhelming manifestations of the Divine glory at the dedication of the second temple as were granted when Solomon consecrated the first. And yet its glory was to be higher than any reached in the experiences of Solomon's temple. There was to be a spiritual presence of God, which was to be realized by the help of the human presence of Christ. I. EVIDENCES OF THE FULFILMENT OF This PROMISE . Or signs of the spiritual... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 60:14

The sons ( i.e. descendants) also of them that afflicted thee; i.e. of the various nations that at different times oppressed and afflicted Israel—as Egyptians, Canaanites, Philistines, Assyrians, Babylonians, Edomites, Moabites, Ammonites, etc. Shall come bending unto thee. Bowing themselves down to the new Israel—the Israel of God—as the eleven sheaves bowed themselves down to Joseph's sheaf ( Genesis 37:7 ). At the soles of thy feet (comp. Isaiah 49:23 ). Shall call... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 60:1-22

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 60:10

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 60:10-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 60:11

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 60:11

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 60:12

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 60:12

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 60:13

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 60:13

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 60:14

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