Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 60:2
The darkness — All kinds of errors. The Lord — Christ. Shall be seen — Shall be conspicuous; as the Lord's arising, to the darkness covering the earth, so the glory being seen, answers to that gross darkness.
The darkness — All kinds of errors. The Lord — Christ. Shall be seen — Shall be conspicuous; as the Lord's arising, to the darkness covering the earth, so the glory being seen, answers to that gross darkness.
Verse Isaiah 60:2. _DARKNESS SHALL COVER THE EARTH_] This is the state of the Gentile people....
FOR BEHOLD - Lo, darkness covers the earth. This is designed to turn the attention to the fact that all the rest of the world would be enveloped in deep spiritual night. DARKNESS - (See the notes at...
CHAPTER 60 The Glory Chapter: The Morning of a New Age and Its Blessing 1. _The light and glory has come (Isaiah 60:1) _ 2. _The darkness before the morning (Isaiah 60:2) _ 3. The conversion of the G...
THE GLORIES OF THE NEW JERUSALEM. This, with Isaiah 61 f., is marked by close imitation of the style of 2 Is. ISAIAH 60:1. The prophet, taking for his standpoint the fulfilment of his prediction, pic...
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos_, to call attention to the condition of the nations just before Israel's future glory shines forth. PEOPLE. peoples....
The image in these strikingly beautiful verses is that of a city glittering in the first rays of the morning sun. Zion is no doubt addressed in the feminine gender, but the personification is much les...
While Zion is thus illuminated by the presence of Jehovah the heathen world still lies in darkness. Jerusalem is the one point of light on the earth's surface, to which the nations and their kings are...
FOR, BEHOLD, &C.— The design of the Holy Spirit in this clause seems to be, to describe the state of the nations of the world at the time when God should illuminate the church with this light, as a ne...
IX. ZIONTHE ZENITH, Chapter S 60 - 66 A. REWARD OF ZION, WEALTH OF THE NATIONS CHAPTER 60 1. GLORY TEXT: Isaiah 60:1-7 1 Arise, shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of Jehovah is risen upon...
For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. DARKNESS SHALL COVER THE EARTH - the rest...
60:2 peoples; (e-12) _ Leummim_ . see Psalms 2:1 ....
1. The light of deliverance so long waited for (Isaiah 59:9) is about to shine. This prophecy received its highest fulfilment at the coming of Christ, the true Light of the world, which was followed b...
PEOPLE] RV 'peoples.'...
God’s gift of special light is for his people when they obey him (see Isaiah 9:2 and Isaiah 58:8). The ‘light’ refers to the witness that God’s people give to the nations....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 60 NEW *JERUSALEM WILL BE SPLENDID V1 ‘Rise, *Jerusalem, and shine like...
THE DARKNESS SHALL COVER THE EARTH... — The darkness which had shrouded Zion still spreads its veil over the heathen nations of the world, but they also are to share in the light which is to stream fo...
כִּֽי ־הִנֵּ֤ה הַ חֹ֨שֶׁךְ֙ יְכַסֶּה ־אֶ֔רֶץ...
CHAPTER XXIV SALVATION IN SIGHT Isaiah 60:1 THE deliverance from Babylon has long been certain, since chapter 48; all doubts in the way of Return have been removed, Isaiah 49:1 through Isaiah 52:12;...
THE LORD GLORIFIES HIS PEOPLE Isaiah 60:1-14 From this chapter and onward, the prophet predicts the glories of the restored Hebrew people. In a secondary sense, they are also true of the Church, for...
In this and the next two Chapter s, we have a glorious description of the ultimate realization of the purposes of God. It commences with a declaration of the material prosperity of the people describe...
For, behold, the darkness shall cover the (b) earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. (b) Signifying, that all men are in dark...
_People. Babylon shall suffer, while thou art relieved. (Calmet) --- The Gentiles continue in darkness till they embrace the faith, ver. 3. (Haydock) --- Only those who are in the Church receive the l...
I beg to be understood as speaking with all due humility, on a subject so infinitely sublime and glorious; and rather as asking than deciding upon it; but I venture to say, it strikes me that the pers...
2._For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth. _He now exhibits in a stronger light, by means of comparison, that grace which he formerly mentioned; that we may form some idea how much God loves his...
Chapter 60 gives us the condition and the glory of Jerusalem in that time of blessing: all of the people thus spared would be righteous....
FOR, BEHOLD, THE DARKNESS SHALL COVER THE EARTH, AND GROSS DARKNESS THE PEOPLE,.... Like that which covered the land of Egypt, when there was light in Goshen: and this may be meant either of the darkn...
For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. Ver. 2. _For, behold, the darkness shall cov...
_For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth_ Ignorance, idolatry, and all kinds of errors and vices; _and gross darkness the people_ Like that of Egypt; the most palpable blindness and infatuation as...
THE GLORY OF THE MESSIAH UPON THE GENTILES...
For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth and gross darkness the people, the expression referring to the murky darkness of a cloudy day; BUT THE LORD SHALL ARISE UPON THEE, AND HIS GLORY SHALL B...
1-8 As far as we have the knowledge of God in us, and the favour of God towards us, our light is come. And if God's glory is seen upon us to our honour, we ought, not only with our lips, but in our l...
THE DARKNESS; either affliction and misery, a known metaphor; or ignorance and idolatry; as also all kinds of errors and immoralities, with which all that are out of the church are smutted and pollute...
Isaiah 60:2 darkness H2822 cover H3680 (H8762) earth H776 darkness H6205 people H3816 LORD H3068 arise H2224 ...
‘Arise, shine, for your light is come And the glory of Yahweh is risen on you, For behold darkness will cover the earth (or ‘land'), And gross darkness the peoples, But Yahweh will rise on you, A...
Isaiah 60:2 The manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles. I. The first token that was shown to the Gentile world that the great Light had arisen which was to cast its beams over them as well as over t...
The subject of this chapter is, «The glory of the Church in the abundant access of the Gentiles, and the great blessings after a short affliction.» Isaiah 60:1. _Arise, shine; for thy light is come,...
This is a chapter full of good news, a prophecy of the bright days that are yet to come to this dark world. These dull days are not to last for ever. The reign of wickedness will come to an end, and e...
Isaiah 60:1. _Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall aris...
CONTENTS: The Deliverer out of Zion and the peace and joy of His coming. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: When the Redeemer shall appear in glory to be received as the Light of Israel, the knowl...
This chapter contains the full cup of consolation given to Zion, after all her woes and long afflictions in the dark ages of the church. But it is, as Matthew Henry judiciously observes, “the gospel c...
_Arise, shine; for thy light is come_ THE GLORY OF SPIRITUAL ISRAEL Having repeatedly and fully shown that the national pro-eminence of Israel was not to be perpetual, that the loss of it was the na...
_For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth_ THE MANIFESTATION OF CHRIST TO THE GENTILES 1. The first token that was shown to the Gentile world that the great Light had arisen which was to cast...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 60:2 God will make a clear public distinction between those who are his and those who are not his (see Exodus 8:22)....
THE DAWNING OF GOD’S LIGHT, AND ITS AWAKENING CALL Isaiah 60:1. _Arise, shine, for thy light is come, &c._ We ourselves are a part fulfilment of this prophecy. It is Israel’s God we worship, &c. The...
SECTION VII. THE GLORIES OF THE RESTORED JERUSALEM (Isaiah 60:1.). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 60:1 A SONG OF...
Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, a...
1 Kings 8:11; 1 Peter 2:9; 2 Corinthians 3:18; 2 Corinthians 4:4;...