INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 4 The "first" verse of this chapter Isaiah 4:1 seems more properly to belong to the preceding chapter, which declares such a scarcity of men, through the destruction of them in war, there predicted, that there should be seven women to one man; who, contrary to their natural m... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IN THAT DAY SEVEN WOMEN SHALL TAKE HOLD OF ONE MAN,.... Not in the days of Ahaz, when Pekah, son of Remaliah, slew in Judah a hundred and twenty thousand men in one day, 2 Chronicles 28:6 as Kimchi thinks; for though there was then such a destruction of men, yet at the same time two hundred thou... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THAT DAY SHALL THE BRANCH OF THE LORD BE BEAUTIFUL AND GLORIOUS,.... When the beauty of the Jewish women shall be taken away, and their men shall he slain; by whom is meant, not the righteous and wise men left among the Jews, as Jarchi and Aben Ezra; nor Hezekiah; which is the sense of some, as t... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, [THAT HE THAT IS] LEFT IN ZION, AND [HE THAT] REMAINETH IN JERUSALEM,.... These are the persons to whom Christ appears beautiful and glorious, excellent and comely, who will be left, and remain in Zion and Jerusalem; by which is meant the Gospel church, or church as in the... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN \N\ the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion,.... By Zion is meant the church of Christ in general, his mystical body, the general assembly and church of the firstborn, written in heaven, Hebrews 12:22 and by her "daughters" particular churches, that go by the name of... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE LORD WILL CREATE ON EVERY DWELLING PLACE OF MOUNT ZION,.... That is, on every particular church of Christ in Gospel times, and especially in the latter day; which are the dwelling places of Father, Son, and Spirit, and of believers in Christ. The word o used signifies a place well fitted up,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THERE SHALL BE A TABERNACLE,.... Christ, who tabernacled in our nature, and is the minister of the true tabernacle, which God pitched, and not man; who will be spiritually present in the word and ordinances, where the shepherds pitch their tents; and who will be that to his people as shepherds'... [ Continue Reading ]