Isaiah 9:1

CONTENTS

Here is another blessed prophecy, full of the Lord Jesus, and of gospel mercies, folded up in him. The prophet speaks of the joy of God's people, when, in the midst of darkness, the light of Christ's coming shall break in upon them. The chapter closeth with threatened judgments to the despisers of his word.

Isaiah 9:1

The opening of this chapter is a continuation of the same subject as the former. The Church was there said to be in darkness. And certainly before the coming of Christ, the darkness was uncommonly great: for from the last prophecy delivered by Malachi to the hour in which Zechariah ministered at the altar of incense, there had been no open visions a period of near 350 years; Luke 1:8.