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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Isaiah 66:21

Of them, Gentiles; (ver. 19.) some of whom alone will be properly priests, though all enjoy the title in a figurative sense, 1 Peter ii. 9. The Jews strive in vain to elude this text. (Calmet) --- Under the law, one family alone enjoyed this honour: but Christ chooses the most deserving pastors. (Worthington)

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See also Isaiah 66:21 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 66:21. _AND FOR LEVITES_] For ללוים _laleviyim_, fifty-nine MSS., (eight ancient,) have וללוים _velaleviyim_, adding the conjunction ו _vau_, which the sense seems necessarily to require...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND I WILL ALSO TAKE OF THEM FOR PRIESTS - I will give to them an honorable place in my public service; that is, I will make them ministers of religion as if they were priests and Levites. This cannot...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 66 The Finale: The Two Classes and the Prophecy of Isaiah in a Retrospect 1. _The apostates and their wicked worship (Isaiah 66:1) _ 2. _The remnant suffering and encouraged (Isaiah 66:5) _ 3...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH 66. Here divisions are hard to define. The theme the coming punishment of the apostates and the coming glory of the pious is pursued now on one side, now on the other. ISAIAH 66:1. AN ATTACK O...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THEM. i.e. Israel. PRIESTS AND FOR LEVITES. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 17:9). See notes on Ezekiel 43:19; Ezekiel 44:10;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    AND OF THEM ALSO WILL I TAKE &c. (R.V.). Commentators differ in opinion as to whether the ministers of the sanctuary are to be taken from the restored exiles or from the Gentiles who bring them back;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The extension of the knowledge of Jehovah's power to the outlying nations, and the consequent voluntary surrender of the Israelites exiled among them. The first sentence of Isaiah 66:18 is untranslat...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1025 THE JEWS TO CONVERT THE GENTILES Isaiah 66:18. It shall come, that I will gather all nations and longues; and they shall come, and see my glory. And I will set a sign among them; and I...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    3. BUILDING OF ZION TEXT: Isaiah 66:15-24 15 For, behold, Jehovah will come with fire, and his chariots shall be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the LORD. And I will also take of them - the Gentiles. For priests, (and) for Levites - for spiritual worship; enjoying the direct acc...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1. WHERE, etc.] RV 'what manner of house.. what place shall be my rest.' The v. is a strong rebuke of such as, without a really religious spirit, idly trusted in the inviolability of Zion, and the pro...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    TAKE OF THEM] i.e. (_a_) of the nations who bring back the Jews; or, (_b_) of the Jews themselves thus brought back; all Israel shall be eligible for the priesthood. Isaiah 61:6 favours this latter in...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 66 The *Lord divides the ‘people of God’ into two types. There are those...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Jesus refers to the *Temple as the ‘House for Prayer for all nations’ (see Mark 11:17)....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I WILL ALSO TAKE OF THEM FOR PRIESTS... — We are left to determine whether the promise is that even Gentile converts should be enrolled among the priests and Levites of the new Jerusalem, or that Isra...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ גַם ־מֵהֶ֥ם אֶקַּ֛ח לַ † כֹּהֲנִ֥ים...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXV A LAST INTERCESSION AND THE JUDGMENT Isaiah 63:7 through Isaiah 66:1 WE might well have thought, that with the section we have been considering the prophecy of Israel's Redemption had re...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    ALL FLESH SHALL WORSHIP THE LORD Isaiah 66:15-24 The prophet makes it clear that, whatever blessings accrue in the golden future, they will be apportioned to those alone, who are the Israel of God, n...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This last chapter is confessedly difficult of interpretation. In it the prophet seems to look beyond all that he has previously described, and to deal with destiny. He first announces anew the fact of...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And I will also take of them for (h) priests [and] for Levites, saith the LORD. (h) That is, of the Gentiles, as he did Luke, Timothy and Titus first, and others after to preach his word....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The call of the Gentiles, the gathering of the Jews, the formation of a kingdom of priests and Kings the wonders to be accomplished in redemption, and the awful state of those who finally reject the g...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    21._And I will even take some of them for priests and Levites. _The Prophet heightens the description of that which he had already declared about the extraordinary grace of God. He had made known that...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 66 speaks of the judgment that introduces it, and consequently gives us more historical details. The temple is rebuilt in Jerusalem (Isaiah 66:6), but Jehovah does not own it, man alone being...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND I WILL ALSO TAKE OF THEM FOR PRIESTS,.... That is, of the Gentiles, the brethren brought as an offering to the Lord; and therefore must respect Gospel times, when the Aaronic priesthood would be c...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And I will also take of them for priests [and] for Levites, saith the LORD. Ver. 21. _And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites._] For evangelical pastors and teachers, who have a dist...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _I will also take of them for priests and for Levites_ God will find among the converted Gentiles those who, though they are not of the tribe of Levi, yet shall do the true work of the priests and Lev...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE HAPPINESS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the Lord, there being no difference in the Church of Christ between Jews and Gentiles, all of them being of equal rank as spiritual prie...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    15-24 A prophetic declaration is given of the Lord's vengeance on all enemies of his church, especially that of all antichristian opposers of the gospel in the latter days. Ver...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Lest the Jews, being assured that the tribe of Levi, which God anciently chose to minister before him, was among them, should say, Alas, if the Gentiles should be brought in, where would they have pri...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 66:21 take H3947 (H8799) priests H3548 Levites H3881 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THERE WILL BE DELIVERANCE FOR MANY IN THE NATIONS SOME OF WHOM WILL BECOME PRIESTS AND LEVITES (ISAIAH 66:18). Isaiah 66:18 “It comes, and I will gather all nations and tongues, And they will come...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Blessings of the coming universal Kingdom. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: Following the day of Christ's vengeance the sorrows of Israel will be turned into abundant joys. All the Gen...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 66:1. _The heaven is my throne._ This chapter applies to Isaiah's time, as well as to future times; and though the Lord rejected the impure worship of the temple, yet he would dwell with the co...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites_ TAKEN FOR PRIESTS AND FOR LEVITES Those taken to be priests and Levites might be the Gentiles who bring back the dispersed of Israel, or th...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _It shall some, that I will gather all nations and tongues._ THE CONVERSION OF THE WORLD I. FUTURE PROSPECTS OF PROVIDENCE RESPECTING THE GLORIOUS WORK OF THE CONVERSION OF THE WORLD TO CHRIST. II....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 66:1 Though the worship of God is violated now, in the future falsehood will be judged, true worship will spread, and God will be honored forever. ⇐...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION XII.—FINAL THREATENINGS AND PROMISES (Isaiah 66:1.). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 66:1 THE UNGODLY EXILES REBUKED

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that you build unto me? and where is the place of my rest? (Isaiah 66:1) They're going to build a new te...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Peter 2:5; 1 Peter 2:9; Exodus 19:6; Isaiah 61:6; Jeremiah 13:18;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    For priests — God will find among the converted Gentiles those who though they are not of the tribe of Levi, yet shall do the true work of priests and Levites....

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