Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 61:10
I will — This is spoken in the person of the church. Garments, &c. — With salvation as with a garment, and with righteousness as with a robe.
I will — This is spoken in the person of the church. Garments, &c. — With salvation as with a garment, and with righteousness as with a robe.
Verse Isaiah 61:10. _I WILL GREATLY REJOICE IN THE LORD_] These may be the words of the Jews now converted, and brought into the Church of Christ, and with the Gentiles made fellow heirs of the blessi...
I WILT GREATLY REJOICE IN THE LORD - This is the language of the prophet in the name of the church; or, as Vitringa supposes, the language of a chorus introduced here by the prophet. The Chaldee regar...
CHAPTER 61 The King, Jehovah's Messenger: His People and their Salvation Song 1. _Jehovah's Messenger and His work (Isaiah 61:1) _ 2. _His people a kingdom of priests and their work (Isaiah 61:6) _ 3...
The prophet now addresses the people directly. Men of other nations shall serve as labourers at their bidding and call them Yahweh's priests, or Servants of our God, recognising Yahweh as such. As a p...
SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13 WITH THE ROBE.. special various reading called _Sevir_ (App-84), with some codices, one early printed edition, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate read "and with. robe". T...
According to the Targum and some critics the speaker here is the Zion of the future; while Delitzsch and others, who assign the preceding words to the Servant of Jehovah, suppose that he is still the...
DISCOURSE: 1006 THE BELIEVER CLAD WITH THE GARMENTS OF SALVATION Isaiah 61:10.—_I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salv...
I WILL GREATLY REJOICE, &C.— The church here bursts forth into joy and rapture upon a view of the blessings of grace so liberally conferred upon her. In this sublime and elegant passage we have, _firs...
3. FAME TEXT: Isaiah 61:8-11 8 For I, Jehovah, love justice, I hate robbery with iniquity; and I will give them their recompense in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them. 9 And...
I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decket...
61:10 robe (b-31) The large outer garment worn in the East....
1. The speaker is the prophet, either in his own person, or in that of the Servant of Jehovah. The mission here spoken of is identical with the mission of the Servant as already indicated; e.g. to bin...
DECKETH.. ORNAMENTS] lit. 'decketh himself with a priestly head-dress.' The allusion is to the custom of the bridegroom wearing a special head-dress on the wedding day (Song of Solomon 3:11)....
A bride and bridegroom dress carefully for their wedding. They wear special clothes to show their character and serious intention. • Another translation of verse 10 is, ‘I am now bursting with joy as...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 61 This chapter shows how God will achieve his great purpose for all the...
I WILL GREATLY REJOICE... — The speaker is again, as in Isaiah 61:1, the ideal Servant of Jehovah, who identifies himself with the people and slaves. The Targum, it may be noted, makes Jerusalem the s...
שֹׂ֧ושׂ אָשִׂ֣ישׂ בַּֽ יהוָ֗ה תָּגֵ֤ל נַפְשִׁי֙...
“THE ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF THE LORD” Isaiah 61:1-11 _Messiah's mission_, Isaiah 61:1-3. At Nazareth our Lord applied these words to Himself. Let us care for the outcasts as He did; but to do so, we nee...
Passing from the description of material prosperity, the prophecy describes the inner secret, namely, spiritual realization. This description opens with a new declaration of the Servant of the Lord. T...
(s) I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom dec...
_Jewels. Apocalypse xxi. 2. Jerusalem, or rather the Church, praises God._...
I see no reason to limit this Song of joy and exultation to the Church. We shall have very blessed views of the Church's Lord and Saviour, if we accept the words as first spoken by Christ, and next as...
10._Rejoicing I shall rejoice in Jehovah. _He represents the Church as giving thanks to God, in order to convince them more fully of the truth of what he formerly said. It may be regarded as ( ὑποτύτω...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 61 AND 62. As Chapter s 50-53 presented Christ in His sufferings, chapter 61 exhibits Him in the full grace of His Person concerned in the blessing of Israel....
I WILL GREATLY REJOICE IN THE LORD,.... These are not the words of the prophet spoken in his own person, rejoicing in the goodness of the Lord to his people and countrymen; nor of Christ; but of the c...
I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh...
_I will greatly rejoice in the Lord_ This is spoken in the person of the church, wherein she thankfully acknowledges God's kindness to her in the fore-mentioned promises. _My soul shall be joyful in m...
THE LORD'S YEAR OF JUBILEE. The chapter opens with a powerful description of the office of the Servant of Jehovah, of the Messiah Himself....
I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, the Inspiration and Source of all true spiritual joy; MY SOUL SHALL BE JOYFUL IN MY GOD, on account of the deliverance which the believers have experienced; FOR HE...
DECKETH: _ Heb._ decketh as a priest...
10,11 Those only shall be clothed with the garments of salvation hereafter, that are covered with the robe of Christ's righteousness now, and by the sanctification of the Spirit have God's image rene...
I WILL GREATLY REJOICE: this by a prosopopoeia is spoken in the person of the church, wherein she doth thankfully acknowledge God's kindness to her in the forementioned promise, expressed here in the...
Isaiah 61:10 greatly H7797 (H8800) rejoice H7797 (H8799) LORD H3068 soul H5315 joyful H1523 (H8799) God...
THE ANOINTED ONE IS CLOTHED SUITABLY FOR HIS TASK (ISAIAH 61:10). Isaiah 61:10 ‘I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh, My inner being will be joyful in my God, For he has clothed me with the garments o...
Isaiah 61:10 "The robe of righteousness" is a familiar phrase with evangelical Christians. Adopted, undoubtedly, from the passage just read, it is used to denote that righteousness of the Lord Jesus w...
Isaiah 61:1. _The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me,_ You know who it is that speaks these words, our Lord Jesus himself. Isaiah 61:1. Because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto t...
Isaiah 61:1. _The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me;_ These are the words of the Lord Jesus Christ the prophet, looking forward to the tune of his coming into the world, put them into his mouth; and...
CONTENTS: Two advents of Christ in one view. Kingdom blessing after the day of vengeance. Israel's restoration. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit. CONCLUSION: After the day of Christ's vengeance,...
Isaiah 61:1. _The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me._ Here the Redeemer appears clothed with humanity, and invested with all the high offices of our redemption. Jehovah gave not the Spirit by measure...
_I will greatly rejoice in the Lord_ THE GARMENTS OF SALVATION I. Here is a GLAD RESOLVE. “I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God. 1. Where there is a will there is g...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 61:1 The Messiah will preach into existence his new, liberated people, who will pray into existence his new, redeemed world. ⇐...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 61:10 The speaker is either the Messiah, Isaiah, or the city of Zion. Since THE LORD GOD echoes “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me” (v....
SECTION VIII.—SOLILOQUY OF THE SERVANT OF THE LORD, WHO PROMISES GLORY AND PROSPERITY TO JERUSALEM (Isaiah 61:1;...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Isaiah 61:1-11. We are told in the New Testament that the Old Testament prophets many times wrote of things that they did not really understand. Earnestly desiring,...
1 Peter 1:8; 1 Samuel 2:1; 2 Chronicles 6:41; Exodus 28:2; Ezekiel 1