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Isaiah 4
In the extremity of evils, Christ's glorious kingdom should
appear to those who are left alive, ver. 1, 2. They shall be holy,
ver. 3. Purged, ver. 4. A glory and a defense upon them, ver. 5. A
sanctuary from evils, ver. 6.
Verse 1. In that day - In that calamitous time. Seven - Many. A certain
number for an uncertain. One man - Because few men shall
survive that dreadful stroke. Only - Own us for thy wives. Our
reproach - Virginity was esteemed a reproach; children, the usual
fruit of marriage, being both an honour to their parents, and a
blessing of God, especially to that people, from some of whose
loins the Messiah was to spring.
Verse 2. In that day - About that time: when the Lord shall have washed
away the filth of Zion, by those dreadful judgments now
described. The branch - The Messiah. The earth - The land which
for the sins of the people was made barren, upon their return to
Christ shall recover its fertility. Under this one mercy he includes
all temporal blessings, together with spiritual and eternal. For
them - That shall survive all the forementioned calamities.
Verse 3. Holy - Shall be really holy. Jerusalem - Of the people living in
or belonging to Jerusalem.
Verse 4. When - This shall be accomplished when God hath throughly
cleansed the Jewish nation from their sins. The blood - The blood-
guiltiness, and especially that of killing the Lord of life. Burning -
This is opposed to the former legal way of purification, which was
by water. The Holy Spirit of old accompanied the preaching of the
gospel, and did this work in part, and will do it fully. This spirit
may well be called a spirit of judgment, because it executes
judgment in the church, and in the consciences of men, separating
the precious from the vile, convincing men of sin, and
righteousness, and judgment. And the same spirit may be fitly
called the spirit of burning, because he doth burn up and consume
the dross which is in the church, and in the hearts of men, and
inflames the souls of believers with love to God, and zeal for his
glory.
Verse 5. Create - Will in a marvelous manner produce, as it were by a
new creation. A cloud - A pillar of cloud and fire, like that
wherewith he directed the Israelites, when they came out of
Egypt: whereby he implies, that God would be their protector, and
their glory. The glory - Upon all that church and people, which
God will make so glorious; upon all holy assemblies of sincere
Christians.
Verse 6. And there - Or, he, the Lord, shall be a tabernacle, to defend
them from the heat of the sun, and other injuries of the weather.
Chapter 4:
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| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Matthew Henry
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 Song of Solomon Jeremiah
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