Isa 63:7, Joh 1:16 | JFB | STEP | 7. Israel's penitential confession and prayer for restoration ( ), extending from . loving-kindnesses . . . praises . . . mercies . . . loving-kindnesses —The plurals and the repetitions imply that language is inadequate to express the full extent of God's goodness. us —the dispersed Jews at the time just preceding their final restoration. house of Israel —of all ages; God was good not merely to the Jews now dispersed, but to Israel in every age of its history.

Isaiah 63:7

7. Israel's penitential confession and prayer for restoration (Ps 102:17, 20), extending from Isa 63:7 to 64:12.

loving-kindnesses . . . praises . . . mercies . . . loving-kindnesses—The plurals and the repetitions imply that language is inadequate to express the full extent of God's goodness.

us—the dispersed Jews at the time just preceding their final restoration.

house of Israel—of all ages; God was good not merely to the Jews now dispersed, but to Israel in every age of its history.

John 1:16

16. of his fulness—of "grace and truth," resuming the thread of Joh 1:14.

grace for grace—that is, grace upon grace (so all the best interpreters), in successive communications and larger measures, as each was able to take it in. Observe, the word "truth" is here dropped. "Grace" being the chosen New Testament word for the whole fulness of the new covenant, all that dwells in Christ for men.