Psa 149:5-9, Isa 49:23-26, 54:3, 60:11-16, Dan 7:14, 18, 22, Zep 3:19-20 | TSK | STEP

kings.Cyrus, Darius, Artaxerxes, and other Persian monarchs, as well as Alexander the Great, and his successors, particularly Demetrius, conferred many privileges and immunities on the Jewish people, and were munificent benefactors to their temple. But the prophecy was more remarkably and fully fulfilled in the favour which Constantine the Great, and other Christian princes and princesses from his time to the present day, have shewn to the church of Christ; though it cannot be disputed, that the grand and signal accomplishment of these predictions is yet future.

7; 52:15; 60:3,10,11,16; 62:2; Ezr 1:2-4; 6:7-12; 7:11-28; Ne 2:6-10

Es 8:1-10:3; Ps 2:10-12; 68:31; 72:10,11; 138:4; Re 21:24-26

nursing fathers. Heb. nourishers.

Nu 11:12

queens. Heb. princesses. bow.

45:14; 60:14; Ge 43:26; Ps 72:9; Re 3:9

lick up.

Mic 7:17

for they.

25:9; 64:4; Ps 25:3; 34:22; 69:6; Ro 5:5; 9:33; 10:11; 1Pe 2:6

Shall.

Eze 37:3,11

prey.

42:22; 53:12; Ps 124:6,7; 126:1-3; Mt 12:29; Lu 11:21,22

lawful captive. Heb. captivity of the just.

Ezr 9:9,13; Ne 9:33,37; Jer 25:6-9,11-14

Even.

10:27; 52:2-5; Jer 29:10; 50:17-19,33,34; Zec 9:11; Heb 2:14,15

1Jo 3:8

captives. Heb. captivity. I will contend.

41:11,12; 54:15-17; Ge 12:3; Nu 23:8,9; Jer 51:35,36; Zec 9:13-16

Zec 12:3-6; 14:3,12; Ro 8:31-39; Re 18:20

I will save.

54:13; Ga 4:26

I will feed.

9:20; Jud 7:22

drunken.

Re 14:20; 16:6; 17:6

sweet wine. or, new wine. and all.

41:14-20; 45:6; 60:16; Ps 9:16; 58:10,11; 83:18; Eze 39:7; Re 15:3,4

Isaiah 54:3

thou shalt.

2:2-4; 11:9-12; 35:1,2; 42:1-12; 43:5,6; 49:12; 60:3-11; Ge 49:10

Ps 72:8-11; Ro 9:25,26; 10:18; 11:12; Col 1:23

and thy.

49:18; 55:5; 60:10-13; 61:5-9

make.

49:8,19; 52:9; Eze 36:35,36

Isaiah 60:11-16

Therefore.The subject of this chapter, says Bp. Lowth, is the great increase and flourishing state of the church of God, by the conversion and accession of the heathen nations to it; which is set forth in such ample and exalted terms, as plainly shew that the full completion of this prophecy is reserved for future times. This subject is displayed in the most splendid colours, under a great variety of images highly poetical, designed to give a general idea of the glories of that perfect state of the church of God, which we are taught to expect in the latter times; when the fulness of the Gentiles shall come in, and the Jews shall be converted and gathered from their dispersions, and "the kingdom of this world shall become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ."

thy gates.

Ne 13:19; Re 21:25

forces. or, wealth.

5; *marg:

41:11; 54:15; Ps 2:12; Da 2:35,44,45; Zec 12:2-4; 14:12-19

Mt 21:44; Lu 19:27; Re 2:26,27

The glory.That is, the cedar; and as the choice timber of Lebanon beautified Solomon's temple, that footstool of Jehovah; so shall the peculiar advantages of every nation, and of every description of men, concur to beautify the church of Christ, which He has determined to make glorious. The language then becomes more energetic, and the images employed more grand and magnificent; and nothing can answer to the glorious description but some future exalted state of the church on earth, or the church triumphant in heaven; though several expressions seem to limit it to the church below.

35:2; 41:19,20; 55:13; Ho 14:6,7

to beautify.

Ezr 7:27

the place.

66:1; 1Ch 28:2; Ps 96:6; 132:7

sons.

14:1,2; 45:14; 49:23; Jer 16:19; Re 3:9

The city.

62:12; Ps 87:3; Heb 12:22; Re 3:12; 14:1

thou.

49:14-23; 54:6-14; Ps 78:60,61; Jer 30:17; La 1:1,2; Re 11:2,15-17

a joy.