Micah 4:6-13

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 4:8

Verse 8 Micah still continues the same subject, — that the miserable calamities of the people, or even their ruin, will not prevent God to restore again his Church. Thou tower of the flock, he says, the fortress of the daughter of Zion, doubt not but that God will again restore to thee thy ancient kingdom and dignity from which thou seemest now to have entirely fallen. But interpreters take the tower of the flock in various senses. Some think that the devastation of the city Jerusalem is... read more

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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 4:9

Verse 9 The Prophet blends here things in their nature wholly contrary, — that the Jews were for a time to be cut off, — and that afterwards they were to recover their former state. Why, he says, dost thou cry out with crying? We must notice the Prophet’s design. He did not intend to overturn what he had before stated; but as the minds of the godly might have fainted amidst so many changes, the Prophet here gives them support, that they might continue firm in their faith; and hence he says, Why... read more

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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 4:10

Verse 10 Why then has pain laid hold on thee as on one in travail? Be in pain, he says, and groan; (132) that is, I will not prevent thee to grieve and to mourn; as though he said, “Certainly even the strongest cannot look on calamities so dreadful, without suffering the heaviest sorrow; but though God may for a time subject his children to the greatest tortures, and expose them to the most grievous evils, he will yet restore them at length from their exile.” Thou shalt depart, he says, from... read more

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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 4:11

Verse 11 The Prophet’s object here is to give some alleviation to the faithful lest they should succumb under their calamities; for, as we have stated, there were most grievous evils approaching, sufficient to overwhelm the minds of the godly. The Prophet then raises up here, with the moat suitable comfort, those who would have otherwise fainted under their calamities; and the sum of the whole is this, — that the faithful were not to be confounded on finding the ungodly proudly triumphing, as... read more

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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 4:12

Verse 12 Consolation follows, But they know not the thoughts of Jehovah, nor understand his counsel: for verbs in the past tense have the meaning of the present. Here the Prophet recalls the attention of the godly to a subject the most suitable to them: for when the wicked rise up so cruelly against us, we are apt to think that all things are allowed to them, and then their reproaches and slanders immediately take possession of our minds and thoughts, so that we in a manner measure God’s... read more

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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Micah 4:13

Verse 13 Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion; for I have made thy horn (136) iron, and thy hoofs brass. The Prophet here confirms what he had previously said: and he exhorts the daughter of Zion to arise; for it was necessary for her to have been cast down, so as to lie prostrate on the ground. God did not indeed restore at once his Church, but afflicted her for a time, so that she differed nothing from a dead man. As then a dead body lies on the ground without any feeling, so also did the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 4:1-8

The Messiah's spiritual kingdom. These verses call us away from the contemplation of sin and its effects as set forth in the previous chapters, and hid us turn our thoughts to the golden age that rose before the prophet's vision, and animated and cheered his heart in the dark days in which his lot was cast. We live in happier times. Much that was to him only distant expectation has become fully realized by us. "Blessed are our eyes," etc. ( Matthew 13:16 , Matthew 13:17 ). Still,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 4:6

In that day. The Messianic age of Micah 4:1 . Her that halteth; Septuagint, τὴν συντετριμμένην , "her that is bruised;" Vulgate, claudicantem . Under the image of a flock footsore and dispersed, the prophet signifies the depressed condition of the excelled Hebrews (comp. Micah 2:12 ; Zephaniah 3:19 ). It is the sick and afflicted here who are to he gathered together, the remnant, that is (verse 7), wherever found, which turns to the Lord in repentance and humility. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 4:6-7

§ 5. In this promised restoration all Israel is included, if they choose to accept, the offer. read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Micah 4:6-7

The restoration of Israel. It is the Gentile nations for whom the blessings of "the last days" have just been predicted ( Micah 4:2-4 ). The new Mount Zion of the Messiah's days will have a magnetic power on "the East and the West" ( Matthew 8:11 ; John 12:32 ). But Israel, through whom these blessings reach the nations, shall not be excluded from a share in them. Yet the form of the prediction reminds us of the abject condition of God's ancient people and of the gradual extension of... read more

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