The least of the apostles shall bring many converts, (Calmet) or shall be spiritual (Haydock) governor of a great city, (Micheas v. 2.) in the Church militant. (Calmet) --- A small shoot, or family, in the Church, shall produce many others. (Menochius)
Verse Isaiah 60:22. _I THE LORD WILL HASTEN IT IN HIS TIME_] There is a time set for the fulfilment of this prophecy: that time must come before it begins to take place; but when it does begin, the w...
A LITTLE ONE SHALL BECOME A THOUSAND - There shall be a great increase, as if one, and that the smallest, should be multiplied to a thousand. The idea is, that the people, then small in number, would...
CHAPTER 60 The Glory Chapter: The Morning of a New Age and Its Blessing 1. _The light and glory has come (Isaiah 60:1) _ 2. _The darkness before the morning (Isaiah 60:2) _ 3. The conversion of the G...
THE GLORIES OF THE NEW JERUSALEM. This, with Isaiah 61 f., is marked by close imitation of the style of 2 Is. ISAIAH 60:1. The prophet, taking for his standpoint the fulfilment of his prediction, pic...
The community, composed exclusively of righteous persons, shall possess the land for ever; and Jehovah shall be glorified in them. _inherit_ Better: POSSESS. _the branch of my planting_ i.e. "which I...
_A little one … a small one_ Better perhaps: THE LEAST … THE SMALLEST. The word for "thousand" (_"éleph_) means also a larger or smaller group of families, "clan" or TRIBE. This is doubtless the sense...
THY PEOPLE ALSO SHALL BE ALL RIGHTEOUS— It was proper that the prophetic discourse, big with such excellent promises, should set forth the quality of the citizens of this blessed and fortunate city; f...
3. GOODNESS TEXT: Isaiah 60:15-22 15 Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man passed through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations. 16 Thou shal...
A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time. A LITTLE ONE SHALL BECOME A THOUSAND - even one, and that the smallest in number and r...
1. The light of deliverance so long waited for (Isaiah 59:9) is about to shine. This prophecy received its highest fulfilment at the coming of Christ, the true Light of the world, which was followed b...
A LITTLE ONE] RV 'the little one,' i.e. the smallest; he who has no children, or few. IN HIS TIME] RV 'in its time.'...
The *Lord made such a promise to Abraham many centuries earlier (see Genesis 18:18). JERUSALEM ~ at the time of David and Solomon, the capital of the country called Israel. During the time of Isaiah,...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 60 NEW *JERUSALEM WILL BE SPLENDID V1 ‘Rise, *Jerusalem, and shine like...
A LITTLE ONE SHALL BECOME A THOUSAND. — The noun is probably to be taken not in its merely numerical value, but, as in Judges 6:15; 1 Samuel 23:23; Micah 5:2, for a clan or sub-division of a tribe....
הַ קָּטֹן֙ יִֽהְיֶ֣ה לָ אֶ֔לֶף וְ הַ
CHAPTER XXIV SALVATION IN SIGHT Isaiah 60:1 THE deliverance from Babylon has long been certain, since chapter 48; all doubts in the way of Return have been removed, Isaiah 49:1 through Isaiah 52:12;...
“HE IS THEIR EVERLASTING LIGHT” Isaiah 60:15-22 What a graphic delineation is presented in these words of the privileges of the consecrated life! The Mighty One of Jacob becomes its Savior. Thencefor...
In this and the next two Chapter s, we have a glorious description of the ultimate realization of the purposes of God. It commences with a declaration of the material prosperity of the people describe...
A little one shall become a (x) thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in its time. (x) Meaning, that the Church would be miraculously multiplied....
REFLECTIONS BLESSED Lord Jesus! how shall I refrain, while reading this sweet chapter, from having my whole soul led out in longing desire after thee, and calling upon thee in thine own words, to aris...
The very blessed things here spoken of, evidently refer to the Church above, and we must look forward to the full accomplishment of them in the new heavens and new earth, wherein righteousness dwellet...
22._A little one shall become a thousand. _He again confirms what he formerly said, that, although they were few in number, yet the Church of God would be populous. When the Prophet foretold these thi...
Chapter 60 gives us the condition and the glory of Jerusalem in that time of blessing: all of the people thus spared would be righteous....
A LITTLE ONE SHALL BECOME A THOUSAND,.... A small family, a little handful of people in all ages, scattered up and down in the world, of no esteem and account in it, being all gathered together, that...
A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time. Ver. 22. _A little one shall become a thousand._] Three thousand were added to the Church...
_Thy people shall be all righteous_ Through righteousness imputed to them, Romans 4:3; Romans 4:23; implanted in them, Ephesians 4:22; and practised by them,...
A little one, the smallest and most insignificant member of Zion, SHALL BECOME A THOUSAND AND A SMALL ONE A STRONG NATION, equaling a great many enemies in might; I, THE LORD, WILL HASTEN IT IN HIS TI...
THE HAPPINESS ATTENDING THE GLORIFICATION OF THE MESSIAH...
15-22 We must look for the full accomplishment in times and things, exceeding those of the Old Testament church. The nations and their kings shall lay themselves out for the good of the church. Such...
A LITTLE ONE SHALL BECOME A THOUSAND; though of very small beginning, and contemptible, yet shall greatly multiply. Though the church at first will be but a very few, yet will it increase into many th...
Isaiah 60:22 one H6996 thousand H505 one H6810 strong H6099 nation H1471 LORD H3068 hasten H2363 (H8686) time...
The subject of this chapter is, «The glory of the Church in the abundant access of the Gentiles, and the great blessings after a short affliction.» Isaiah 60:1. _Arise, shine; for thy light is come,...
CONTENTS: The Deliverer out of Zion and the peace and joy of His coming. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: When the Redeemer shall appear in glory to be received as the Light of Israel, the knowl...
This chapter contains the full cup of consolation given to Zion, after all her woes and long afflictions in the dark ages of the church. But it is, as Matthew Henry judiciously observes, “the gospel c...
_A little one shall become a thousand_ THE AMPLITUDE OF THE CHURCH The Church of Christ has been often subject to persecution in past ages; but at a future time it will obtain general protection and...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 60:21 The people of Zion will be RIGHTEOUS, not sinful; secure, not imperiled; fruitful, not disappointing; and influential, not ignored....
SECTION VII. THE GLORIES OF THE RESTORED JERUSALEM (Isaiah 60:1.). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 60:1 A SONG OF...
Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, a...
2 Peter 3:8; Acts 2:41; Acts 5:14; Daniel 2:35; Daniel 2:44;...
In time — In due time, the time that I have appointed....