John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 25:8
He will swallow up death in victory ,.... Or, "for ever" F7 לנצח "in sempiternum", Munster, Pagninus, Montanus; "in aeternum", Piscator. . This is to be understood, not of a spiritual death, which is swallowed up in conversion, and of which those that are quickened shall never die more; nor of the conversion of the Jews, which will be as life from the dead; nor of the civil death of the witnesses, and of their rising, who afterwards will never die more, in that sense; but of a... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 25:6-8
If we suppose (as many do) that this refers to the great joy which there should be in Zion and Jerusalem when the army of the Assyrians was routed by an angel, or when the Jews were released out of their captivity in Babylon, or upon occasion of some other equally surprising deliverance, yet we cannot avoid making it to look further, to the grace of the gospel and the glory which is the crown and consummation of that grace; for it is at our resurrection through Christ that the saying here... read more