CONTENTS We have in this chapter, strong, though distant views given of the coming of Christ. In the prospect, the Lord is set forth as both glorious and solemn to the people. Isaiah 2:1 The man of God, takes a similar text to what he had used in his former sermon, with only this difference, that... [ Continue Reading ]
The prophet Micah had a similar commission in his day to deliver, and he executed it almost in the same words: see Micah 4:1. There are several very blessed promises delivered by both the Lord's servants, all which had a gracious eye to the prosperity of Zion, in the latter day dispensation; and in... [ Continue Reading ]
Here the prophet takes occasion to call upon the Jewish church, from the zeal of the Gentile: and since the heathen is so forward to go up to the house of the Lord, how much more ought the Lord's own people to be alive to this service? Reader! it were devoutly to be prayed for, that both Jew and Gen... [ Continue Reading ]
This Portion of the chapter opens in a very solemn manner. Whether the prophet means the visitations of God in the day of calamity of this world; or refers to the day of judgment for another; in both cases it is solemn. See Revelation 6:12. But is there not a spiritual sense of the passage, alluding... [ Continue Reading ]
What a beautiful and striking close is made in this verse to all that went before. If man be nothing, yea worse than nothing, so full of terror, and so exposed to fear, who would put any confidence in him? His life is but a vapour: his breath is in his nostrils. Cease, cease from him! Look unto Jesu... [ Continue Reading ]