Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 60:3
The Gentiles — A plain prophecy of the calling of the Gentiles.
The Gentiles — A plain prophecy of the calling of the Gentiles.
Verse Isaiah 60:3. _AND THE GENTILES SHALL COME_] This has been in some sort already fulfilled. The Gentiles have received the light of the Gospel from the land of Judea, and the Gentile _kings_ have...
AND THE GENTILES SHALL COME - So splendid shall be that glory, that it will attract the distant nations, and they shall come and participate in the blessings of the gospel. This contains the main stat...
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 GENTILES. nations....
The image in these strikingly beautiful verses is that of a city glittering in the first rays of the morning sun. Zion is no doubt addressed in the feminine gender, but the personification is much les...
While Zion is thus illuminated by the presence of Jehovah the heathen world still lies in darkness. Jerusalem is the one point of light on the earth's surface, to which the nations and their kings are...
_And the Gentiles_ AND NATIONS (R.V.)....
FOR, BEHOLD, &C.— The design of the Holy Spirit in this clause seems to be, to describe the state of the nations of the world at the time when God should illuminate the church with this light, as a ne...
IX. ZIONTHE ZENITH, Chapter S 60 - 66 A. REWARD OF ZION, WEALTH OF THE NATIONS CHAPTER 60 1. GLORY TEXT: Isaiah 60:1-7 1 Arise, shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of Jehovah is risen upon...
And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. AND THE GENTILES SHALL COME TO THY LIGHT - (Isaiah 2:3; Isaiah 11:10; Isaiah 43:6;...
60:3 by (f-6) Or 'towards.'...
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...
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...
Light attracts attention. Foreign nations will notice what happens. They will want to share the same experience. CROWDS ARE COMING TO *JERUSALEM V4 ‘Look about you! See what is happening! Your peop...
וְ הָלְכ֥וּ גֹויִ֖ם לְ אֹורֵ֑ךְ וּ מְלָכִ֖ים
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;...
THE LORD GLORIFIES HIS PEOPLE Isaiah 60:1-14 From this chapter and onward, the prophet predicts the glories of the restored Hebrew people. In a secondary sense, they are also true of the Church, for...
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...
And the Gentiles shall come to (c) thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. (c) Meaning, that Judea would be as the morning star, and that the Gentiles would receive light from her....
_Rising. The three wise men were the first. [Matthew ii.]_...
I beg to be understood as speaking with all due humility, on a subject so infinitely sublime and glorious; and rather as asking than deciding upon it; but I venture to say, it strikes me that the pers...
3._And the Gentiles shall walk. _He confirms what we have already said, that there is no other light of men but when the Lord shines on them by his word. All indeed acknowledge this; but they do not s...
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....
AND THE GENTILES SHALL COME TO THY LIGHT,.... To the Gospel, preached in the midst of her; and to Christ, who is her light and into her church state, and partake of the prosperity and happiness of it....
And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. Ver. 3. _And the Gentiles shall come to thy light._] The apostles, those shining luminaries, were Christ's Dαδουχο...
_The Gentiles shall come to thy light_ Or, shall be allured by thy light to come to thee, as travellers in a dark night, and out of their way, when a light discovers itself make to it; so the doctrine...
THE GLORY OF THE MESSIAH UPON THE GENTILES...
And the Gentiles shall come to thy light and kings to the brightness of thy rising, where the rays of the Sun of Righteousness were illuminating the world....
1-8 As far as we have the knowledge of God in us, and the favour of God towards us, our light is come. And if God's glory is seen upon us to our honour, we ought, not only with our lips, but in our l...
THE GENTILES SHALL COME; either to congratulate thy deliverance, or to note the respect that should be shown them by other nations upon their deliverance; or rather, shall be allured by thy light to c...
Isaiah 60:3 Gentiles H1471 come H1980 (H8804) light H216 kings H4428 brightness H5051 rising H2225 the Gentiles -...
‘And nations will come to your light, And kings to the brightness of your rising.' The result of the coming of Yahweh's light in the child Who is to be born, and in the coming of the Servant of Isaia...
LIGHT (_ See Scofield) - (Isaiah 42:6). _...
Isaiah 60:2 The manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles. I. The first token that was shown to the Gentile world that the great Light had arisen which was to cast its beams over them as well as over t...
Isaiah 60:1. _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 aris...
This is a chapter full of good news, a prophecy of the bright days that are yet to come to this dark world. These dull days are not to last for ever. The reign of wickedness will come to an end, and e...
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...
_For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth_ THE MANIFESTATION OF CHRIST TO THE GENTILES 1. The first token that was shown to the Gentile world that the great Light had arisen which was to cast...
_And the Gentiles shall come to thy light_ THE ATTRACTIVENESS OF AN ENLIGHTENED AND LIGHT-GIVING CHURCH What shall invite such multitudes to the Church? They shall be allowed to join themselves to...
_Arise, shine; for thy light is come_ THE GLORY OF SPIRITUAL ISRAEL Having repeatedly and fully shown that the national pro-eminence of Israel was not to be perpetual, that the loss of it was the na...
THE DAWNING OF GOD’S LIGHT, AND ITS AWAKENING CALL Isaiah 60:1. _Arise, shine, for thy light is come, &c._ We ourselves are a part fulfilment of this prophecy. It is Israel’s God we worship, &c. The...
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...
Acts 13:47; Acts 15:17; Amos 9:12; Genesis 49:10; Isaiah 11:10;...