For brass I will bring gold... The material wealth of the days of Solomon (1 Kings 10:21) furnishes another element in the picture of the ideal city, but with this striking difference: that there the “officers” and “exactors” of the king had been instruments of oppression (1 Kings 12:4), while now they were to be the very embodiment of righteousness, and, in the widest sense, of “peace,” and, therefore, of prosperity.
FOR BRASS I WILL BRING GOLD - This commences the description of the happy times when the Gentiles should be led to embrace the true religion, and when the wealth of the world would be consecrated to t...
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...
FOR BRASS. Note the correspondence (by contrast)of this verse with Isaiah 3:24. Compare also Isaiah 1:23. THINE EXACTORS. thy tax-gatherers. See Luke 3:13. RIGHTEOUSNESS. righteous. The very opposite...
_For brass … gold &c._ Cf. ch. Isaiah 9:10; 1 Kings 10:21; 1 Kings 10:27, and the opposite experience, 1 Kings 14:26 f. I will also
The inner order and security of the commonwealth shall correspond to its material splendour, a double contrast to its present (or past) condition....
THY OFFICERS— _Thine inspectors._ Lowth....
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...
For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness. FOR BRASS I WILL BRIN...
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...
The language suggests a return to the prosperity which marked Solomon's reign, with the great difference that the officers shall not be agents of oppression (1 Kings 12:4). EXACTORS] RM 'taskmasters.'...
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...
You will have all the materials that you need for the *Temple. This was what happened in the days of King Solomon (see 1 Chronicles 29:7)....
תַּ֣חַת הַ נְּחֹ֜שֶׁת אָבִ֣יא זָהָ֗ב וְ תַ֤חַ
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...
For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers (r) peace, and thy exactors righteousness. (r) Your governors wil...
_Visitation. Septuagint, "give thy chiefs in peace, and thy bishops in justice." St. Clement of Rome (ad Corinthians) reads, "I will appoint their bishops in justice, and their deacons in faith." (Cal...
In what lofty language, of the most blessed import, and under what gracious similitudes, doth the Lord speak of the glories and happiness of the Church! But let the Reader carefully remember, that it...
17.For brass I will bring gold. He alludes to the building of the ancient temple, and compares it with the heavenly and spiritual temple; as if he had said, “When you shall be led into captivity, you...
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....
FOR BRASS I WILL BRING GOLD, AND FOR IRON I WILL BRING SILVER, AND FOR WOOD BRASS, AND FOR STONES IRON,.... By "wood and stones" may be meant the Old Testament dispensation; by the "brass and iron" th...
For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness. Ver. 17. _For brass I wi...
_Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles_ A metaphor taken from children drawing nourishment from the breast. The sense is, that the church should draw, or receive, the wealth of nations, and th...
For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood, brass, and for stones, iron, replacing the former inexpensive building materials with the most precious metals, with the mo...
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...
FOR BRASS I WILL BRING GOLD: here is the effect of the former promise, Thy poverty shall be turned to riches, all things shall be altered for the best; an allusion to the days of Solomon, when gold wa...
Isaiah 60:17 bronze H5178 bring H935 (H8686) gold H2091 iron H1270 bring H935 (H8686) silver H3701 wood...
‘For bronze I will bring gold, And for iron I will bring silver, And for wood, bronze, And for stones, iron. I will also make your officers peace, And your exactors (taskmasters) righteousness,...
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,...
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...
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 brass I will bring gold_ THE KINGDOM OF GOD This passage occurs amid the glowing prophecies concerning the millennial kingdom. It has, however, its application to the kingdom in its present st...
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...
1 Kings 10:21; 2 Peter 3:13; Hebrews 11:40; Isaiah 1:26; Isaiah 30:2
For brass — An allusion to the days of Solomon, when gold was as brass. Peace — Loving, meek, and peaceable. Righteousness — Most righteous. Such even thy tax — gatherers shall be....