Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Isaiah 60:1
Arise, shine; for thy (a) light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
(a) The time of your prosperity and happiness: while speaking of Babylon, he commanded her to go down, (Isaiah 47:1).
Arise, shine; for thy (a) light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
(a) The time of your prosperity and happiness: while speaking of Babylon, he commanded her to go down, (Isaiah 47:1).
CHAPTER LX _The glorious prospect displayed in this chapter seems to have_ _elevated the prophet even above his usual majesty. The subject_ _is the very flourishing condition of the Church of Jesus...
ARISE - This is evidently addressed to the church, or to Zion regarded as the seat of the church. It is represented as having been in a state of affliction and calamity (compare the notes at Isaiah 3:...
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...
ARISE. Compare Isaiah 51:9; Isaiah 51:17, "awake"; Isaiah 52:2, "awake"; Isaiah 60:1, "arise"; and contrast the cry to Babylon ...
_for thy light is come_ Cf. ch. Isaiah 58:8; Isaiah 58:10; Isaiah 59:9. It is the light of the promised salvation, so long looked for in vain. The perfect tenses are used from the ideal standpoint of...
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...
DISCOURSE: 999 OUR DUTY ARISING FROM THE ADVENT OF CHRIST Isaiah 60:1.—_Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee._ THE prophetic style is wonderfully sublime:...
ARISE, SHINE— "Arise from your state of darkness and mourning, and enter into a state of light and happiness; that thou mayest be able to enlighten others: shew thy native beauty; suffer thyself to be...
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...
Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. An ode of congratulation to Zion on her restoration, at the Lord's second advent, to her true position as the moth...
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...
The *Lord is speaking to ‘*Jerusalem’. ‘*Jerusalem’ refers to both the city and its inhabitants. So, through this whole chapter, ‘you’ means both the city and its inhabitants. • ‘Rise’ means ‘get up...
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...
LX. (1) ARISE, SHINE... — The description of the redeemed Zion — _i.e.,_ the new Jerusalem — seen in the prophet’s vision as under the forms of the old. She has been prostrate, as in the darkness of S...
ק֥וּמִי אֹ֖ורִי כִּ֣י בָ֣א אֹורֵ֑ךְ וּ כְבֹ֥ו
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...
_O Jerusalem, is not in Hebrew or St. Jerome, but in the Septuagint. Some few things may refer to the terrestrial Jerusalem, though the prophet speaks chiefly of the celestial and of the Church. --- L...
CONTENTS God the Holy Ghost is here celebrating the glory and praise of Christ, and his Church in him; and showing what a vast accession of redeemed souls shall pour into the Redeemer's kingdom in th...
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...
1._Arise, be bright. _He now shows what is the efficacy of that word of which he formerly (150) spoke; for he raises up a prostrate and afflicted Church, and restores her to her brightness; and, becau...
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....
ARISE, SHINE,.... The Targum adds, "O Jerusalem"; and so the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions; and no doubt but the church of God is here addressed: and by what follows it seems to be th...
Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. Ver. 1. _Arise._] Thou, O my Church, that now liest _in pulvere vastitatis,_ as a forlorn captive, rouse up thyself,...
_Arise_, &c. The prophet here addresses the church of God, which he supposes to be sitting sorrowful, and exhorts her to awake and arise from a state of darkness and mourning, and enter into a state o...
Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee....
THE GLORY OF THE MESSIAH UPON THE GENTILES...
SHINE, FOR THY LIGHT IS COME: Or, be enlightened, for thy light cometh...
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...
ISAIAH CHAPTER 60 The glory and blessings of the new church after a short affliction. ARISE; a word of encouragement accommodated to the Jewish or Hebrew style, wherein, as by _lying down_ is describe...
Isaiah 60:1 Arise H6965 (H8798) shine H215 (H8798) light H216 come H935 (H8804) glory H3519 LORD...
‘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 60:1 Taking these words into the full illumination of Christianity, they express, very beautifully, the awakening of a man to his true work in the world. It is because the "glory of the Lord h...
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...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 60:1 ARISE, SHINE addresses Zion (see Isaiah 59:20; Isaiah 60:14).
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 Peter 4:14; Ephesians 5:14; Ephesians 5:8; Isaiah 52:1; Isaiah 52:2;
Arise — A word of encouragement accommodated to the Jewish, or Hebrew style, wherein, as by lying down, is described a servile and calamitous condition, Isaiah 47:1, so by rising, and standing up, a r...