Verse 1
MESSIAH’S HEAVENLY INTERCESSION.
1. The “Servant of Jehovah,” or Messiah, is the speaker still. He will not be at rest till what is promised in the preceding three verses is accomplished. This is the present view of the best commentators.
For Zion’s sake Zion is the generic word for the great Messianic cause.
Will I not hold my peace It is the office of Messiah to ask or to work for the earth as his inheritance, (Psalms 2:8,) and that of Jehovah to give it. Does not the passage refer rather to Messiah’s proclamation of the Gospel?
Righteousness… go forth as brightness Go forth until the holiness of the Church shall be abundantly manifest, as a light shining out of darkness. Righteousness and salvation utter each the very same idea; both are needed only to balance the sentence. The terms brightness and lamp indicate Zion as not yet so fully out of the shade as is needful; but that in good time she will enjoy abundance of light, and diffuse it unto others.
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