And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: Ver. 1. _And there shall come forth a rod,_] _i.e., _ Christ shall be born; whom our prophet having called "the anointing" or Messiah, Isa 10:27 maketh him and his kingdom henceforward the chief mat... [ Continue Reading ]
And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; Ver. 2. _And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him._] After such a description of Christ's person, _as _ Isa 11:1 follow... [ Continue Reading ]
_And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:_ Ver. 3. _And shall make him of quick understanding._] Heb., It shall make him scent or smell - _sc., _ by a singular sagacity and s... [ Continue Reading ]
But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. Ver. 4. _But with righteousness judge the poor,_] _i.e., _ The poor in spirit, those m... [ Continue Reading ]
And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins. Ver. 5. _And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins._] _Symbolum Regis hoc est,_ saith Scultetus. Kings and princes have their _scita in scutis,_ their mottoes on their shields; so hath our king he... [ Continue Reading ]
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. Ver. 6. _The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb._] Not worrying as he was wont, but made tame and tractable. Lo, such... [ Continue Reading ]
And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. Ver. 7. _And the cow and the bear shall feed._] An allegorical description of greatest confidence and innocence, saith Junius. Bears are angry and vindictive creatures; so are th... [ Continue Reading ]
And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den. Ver. 8. _And the sucking child shall play upon the hole of the asp, &c._] There shall be no danger from calumniators and cruel crafties, asps and basilisks, _a_ _quorum in labris... [ Continue Reading ]
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea. Ver. 9. _None shall hurt._] Here the foregoing allegory is fully explained. In God's Holy Mountain-that is, in the Church - there shall be a holy, harmless... [ Continue Reading ]
And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious. Ver. 10. _And in that day._] "In the day of Christ's power, or kingdom, the people shall be willing." Psa 110:3 "The isles shall wait for God... [ Continue Reading ]
And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.... [ Continue Reading ]
And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. Ver. 12. _And he shall set up an ensign._] _a_ See on Isaiah 11:10 . _ The dispersed of Judah._] _b_ See Joh 7:35 James 1:1. The... [ Continue Reading ]
_The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim._ Ver. 13. _The envy also of Ephraim shall depart._] The fierce wrath or deadly feud that was between the ten revolted tribes of Judah, the like where... [ Continue Reading ]
But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them. Ver. 14. _But they shall flee upon the shoulders._] A metaphor from conquerors who pursue th... [ Continue Reading ]
And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make [men] go over dryshod. Ver. 15. _And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian Sea._] That is, by dry... [ Continue Reading ]
And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt. Ver. 16. _And there shall be an highway._] _Agger, via strata,_ a causeway. Isa 7:3 _ In the day that he came up out of the... [ Continue Reading ]