Isaiah 22:23 - Homilies By R. Tuck

The sure nail as a type.

The idea may be the peg driven into the ground, round which to fasten the tent-ropes. But, more probably, the reference is to a peg in the wall, driven in so securely that things may be safely hung upon it. The word is here used metaphorically in application to the support which Eliakim would yield to all his dependent relations. It is the type of the man on whom others can depend. The following points will be readily worked out and illustrated.

I. THE SORT OF MAN WHO CAN THUS BE A NAIL FOE OTHERS TO DEPEND ON .

II. THE TYPE FULLY REALIZED IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST .

III. THE TYPE REALIZED , IN MEASURE , IN CHRIST - LIKE MEN AND WOMEN . Nothing better can be said of any of us than this—Men trust us. What can be said of woman nobler than this, "The heart of her husband trusteth in her?"—R.T.