Num 11:25-26, Isa 42:1, 59:21, 61:1, Mat 3:16, Joh 1:32-33, 3:34, Act 10:38 | TSK | STEP | came down. took. gave it.From this place, Origen and Theodoret take occasion to compare Moses to a lamp, at which seventy others were lighted, without any diminution of its lustre. they prophesied.By prophesying here we are to understand, their performing those civil and sacred functions for which they were qualified; exhorting the people to quiet and peaceable submission, and to trust and confidence in the providence of God.

Numbers 11:25-26

came down.

17; 12:5; Ex 34:5; 40:38; Ps 99:7; Lu 9:34,35

took.

gave it.From this place, Origen and Theodoret take occasion to compare Moses to a lamp, at which seventy others were lighted, without any diminution of its lustre.

they prophesied.By prophesying here we are to understand, their performing those civil and sacred functions for which they were qualified; exhorting the people to quiet and peaceable submission, and to trust and confidence in the providence of God.

1Sa 10:5,6,10; 19:20-24; Jer 36:5,6; Joe 2:28,29; Ac 2:17,18

Ac 11:28; 21:9-11; 1Co 11:4,5; 14:1-3,32; 2Pe 1:21

went not out.

Ex 3:11; 4:13,14; 1Sa 10:22; 20:26; Jer 1:6; 36:5

Isaiah 42:1

1 The office of Christ, graced with meekness and constancy.

5 God's promise unto him.

10 An exhortation to praise God for his Gospel.

13 God will manifest himself, and check idolatry.

18 He reproves the people of incredulity.

my servant.

43:10; 49:3-6; 52:13; 53:11; Mt 12:18-20; Php 2:7

whom I.

49:7,8; 50:4-9; Joh 16:32

mine elect.

Ps 89:19,20; Joh 6:27; 1Pe 2:4,6

my soul.

Mt 3:17; 17:5; Mr 1:11; Lu 3:22; Eph 1:4,6; Col 1:13; *marg:

I have.

11:2-5; 59:21; 61:1; Mt 3:16; Mr 1:10; Lu 3:22; Joh 1:32-34; 3:34

Ac 10:38

he shall.

32:16; 49:6; Mal 1:11; Mt 12:18; Ac 9:15; 11:18; 26:17,18; 28:28

Ro 15:8-16; Eph 3:8

Isaiah 59:21

this.

49:8; 55:3; Jer 31:31-34; 32:38-41; Eze 36:25-27; 37:25-27

Eze 39:25-29; Heb 8:6-13; 10:16

My spirit.

11:1-3; 61:1-3; Joh 1:33; 3:34; 4:14; 7:39; Ro 8:9; 2Co 3:8,17,18

my words.

51:16; Joh 7:16,17; 8:38; 17:8; 1Co 15:3-58

Isaiah 61:1

1 The office of Christ.

4 The forwardness;

7 and blessing of the faithful.

Spirit.

11:2-5; 42:1; 59:21; Mt 3:16; Lu 4:18,19; Joh 1:32,33; 3:34

anointed.

Ps 2:6; *marg:

Ps 45:7; Da 9:24; Joh 1:41; Ac 4:27; 10:38; Heb 1:9

to preach.

52:9; Ps 22:26; 25:9; 69:32; 149:4; Mt 5:3-5; 11:5; Lu 7:22

to bind.

57:15; 66:2; Ps 34:18; 51:17; 147:3; Ho 6:1; 2Co 7:6

to proclaim.The proclaiming of perfect liberty to the bound, and the year of acceptance with Jehovah, is a manifest allusion to the proclaiming of the year of the jubilee by sound of trumpet; and our Saviour, by applying this text to himself, plainly declares the typical design of that institution.

42:7; 49:9,24,25; Ps 102:20; Jer 34:8; Zec 9:11,12; Joh 8:32-36

Ac 26:18; Ro 6:16-22; 7:23-25; 2Ti 2:25,26