BUT YE SHALL BE NAMED - The idea here literally is, ‘There will be no need of your engaging in the business of agriculture. All that will be done by others; and you, as ministers of God, may engage wh...
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...
BE SHALL BE NAMED, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 19:6). THE MINISTERS OF OUR GOD. Reference to the technical phrase, common in the Law. See Exodus 28:35.Numbers 16:9;...
Israel's priesthood among the nations, and the services rendered to it by the latter. The meaning of course is not that all Israelites shall minister in the Temple or that a separate sacerdotal order...
_the riches of the Gentiles_ THE WEALTH OF NATIONS, as ch. Isaiah 60:5; Isaiah 60:11. _in their glory shall you boast yourselves_ So the chief Ancient Versions. Another rendering is TO THEIR GLORY SHA...
2. FORTUNE TEXT: Isaiah 61:5-7 5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners shall be your plowman and your vinedressers. 6 But ye shall be named the priests of Jehovah; men sh...
But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye...
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...
Israel will attain its original ideal (Exodus 19:6). RICHES.. GENTILES] wealth of the nations. IN THEIR GLORY, etc.] RM 'to their glory shall ye succeed.'...
The *Lord will appoint some of his people to these jobs (see Isaiah 66:21)....
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...
BUT YE SHALL BE NAMED THE PRIESTS OF THE LORD... — This had been the original ideal of the nation’s life (Exodus 19:6), forfeited for a time through the sins of the people (Exodus 28:1), to be fulfill...
וְ אַתֶּ֗ם כֹּהֲנֵ֤י יְהוָה֙ תִּקָּרֵ֔אוּ מְשָׁרְתֵ֣י...
“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...
But ye shall be named the (k) Priests of the LORD: [men] shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the (l) riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves. (k) This is...
_Priests. They were greatly honoured, (Exodus xix. 6.) so that the sons of David had the appellation. The Jews had still to labour as before. Christians become heirs to these promises, and are styled...
As the Lord Jesus was so well known to his people, by the tenderness of his Person and Character; so his Church had her features from her connection with her Lord, by which she was to be known also....
6._But ye shall be called the priests of Jehovah. _This verse sheds somewhat more light on the preceding; for in the second part of it the Prophet foretells that believers shall enjoy the riches of th...
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....
BUT YE SHALL BE NAMED THE PRIESTS OF THE LORD,.... Or, "and ye shall be named", c. which Jerom understands of the builders of cities, pastors of flocks, the ploughmen and vinedressers, the strangers a...
But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: [men] shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves. Ver. 6. _But ye sh...
_But ye shall be named the Priests_, &c. The whole body of you shall now be as near to God as the priests were formerly, and shall be a royal priesthood, 1 Peter 2:9. This is most certainly true of al...
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....
But ye, all the members of the Church of God, SHALL BE NAMED THE PRIESTS OF THE LORD, every one of whom has direct access to the Lord, without special intercession; MEN SHALL CALL YOU THE MINISTERS OF...
4-9 Promises are here made to the Jews returned out of captivity, which extend to all those who, through grace, are delivered out of spiritual thraldom. An unholy soul is like a city that is broken d...
BUT YE SHALL BE NAMED THE PRIESTS; for your part, ye emphatically shall be as priests; either, 1. For _maintenance_; as the priests of old were plentifully provided for without their labour, so shall...
Isaiah 61:6 named H7121 (H8735) priests H3548 LORD H3068 call H559 (H8735) servants H8334 (H8764) God...
ISAIAH ADDS HIS WORDS TO THOSE OF THE ANOINTED ONE (ISAIAH 61:5 A). It is not always clear in this chapter who is speaking. In Isaiah 61:1 and probably 4 it is the Anointed One. In Isaiah 61:8 it is Y...
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...
Isaiah 61:1. _The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the ca...
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...
_The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me_ THE SPEAKER; PROBABLY THE SERVANT OF JONAH Who is the speaker here? The Targum prefaces the passage with the words, “The prophet says,” and, except a few, all...
_But ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord_ ISRAEL’S PRIESTHOOD AMONG THE NATIONS The meaning is simply that in relation to the Gentiles, Israel shall enjoy a position of priesthood analogous to...
GOD’S PRIESTHOOD _v._ MAN’S PRIESTCRAFT Isaiah 61:6. _But ye shall be named the priests of the Lord._ To such low purposes has the noble word of “priest” been prostituted, so vilely has it been disho...
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 Corinthians 3:5; 1 Corinthians 4:1; 1 Peter 2:5; 1 Peter 2:9;...
The priests — The whole body of them shall now be as near to God as the priests were formerly, and shall be a royal priesthood. This is most certainly true of all the faithful under the gospel....