Verses 2-3
2, 3. I called him alone Or, one alone. I called him when he was but a single person antithetical to what now appears in his descendants “a great multitude.” I…
blessed… increased him The futures, here, are past tenses, made so by laws of Hebrew grammar, from following a past, or, in the words, “I called him:” rather, they are neither past nor future, but in process of passing from the past continually into the future, containing thus a promise continually under fulfilment.
Shall comfort Zion Kay says, “Zion is correlative with Sarah,” meaning, probably, as Sarah was comforted, so shall Zion be. This seems an ill-weighted correlation, yet there is this truth in it: as Sarah in her degree or measure was comforted, in corresponding degree shall Zion so be; and this proportion gives great wealth of blessings to her.
Make her wilderness In exile times Judea was such a waste.
Like Eden The strongest possible expression of a joyful change from total barrenness to the highest pitch of fertility and beauty. (Alexander.) Genesis 2:8; Genesis 13:10; and copied in Ezekiel 31:9, where the ideal garden of Jehovah is the illustrative term employed. Wherein are also joy and gladness… thanksgiving, and the voice of melody Rhetoric is quite exhausted of words descriptive of the cumulative glory of the Messianic work.
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