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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Isaiah 49 This is a prophecy concerning Christ, and redemption by him; and of the enlargement of the church in the latter day, by the conversion of Jews and Gentiles; which the isles, and people afar off, are exhorted to listen and hearken to, delivered out by the prophet, in the person of Christ; who gives an account of his call...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Listen, O isles, unto me,.... These are not the words of Cyrus, as Lyra mentions; nor of the Prophet Isaiah, as Aben Ezra, Kimchi, and other Jewish writers think; but of Christ, calling upon the inhabitants of the isles to hearken to him; by whom are meant the inhabitants of islands properly so called, as ours of Great Britain, and may be chiefly...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
Glorious things had been spoken in the previous chapters concerning the deliverance of the Jews out of Babylon; but lest any should think, when it was accomplished, that it looked much greater and brighter in the prophecy than in the performance, and that the return of about 40,000 Jews in a poor condition out of Babylon to Jerusalem was not an...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; It is very remarkable how constantly the isles are spoken of in this Book of Isaiah, as if it had been foreseen that, in these far-off islands of the sea, the name of Jesus would be greatly magnified. “Listen,” says the Messiah, “O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far.”...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; the Lord hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me; Our Lord Jesus, that great Prophet of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Listen, O isles, unto me, and hearken, ye people from, far; The LORD hath called me from the womb, from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me; and said unto me, Thou art my servant, O...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword,.... Or, "he hath put his words in my mouth as a sharp sword,'' as the Targum; namely, the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, and is sharper than a twoedged sword, and is said to come out of the mouth of Christ, Ephesians 6:17, with which he pierces into and cuts the hearts of men, and lays...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; There are no words anywhere so piercing as the words of our Lord Jesus Christ. When you are giving quotations from various authors, you need never write the name “Jesus” at the bottom of any of his words, for they proclaim their own origin. “Never man spake like this man.” Isa_49:2. In the shadow of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And said unto me,.... Both in the everlasting council, and when he made a covenant with him in eternity; when he found him and anointed him, and laid help on him; and also when he brought him, his first begotten, into the world, at his incarnation: thou art my servant; of his choosing, appointing, calling, sending, bringing forth, and supporting;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And said unto me, Thou art my servant, Above all others, Christ is the servant of God. He is a Son by nature, a servant by his condescension, a servant for our sakes. Isa_49:3. O Israel, in whom I will be glorified. It is very wonderful that the Redeemer should here be called “Israel.” It is not more wonderful, however, than that in another place...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified. It is wonderful condescension on Christ’s part to take the name of his Church so that he himself is called “Israel” in this passage; and there is another passage, equally remarkable, where the Church is allowed to take one of the names of Christ: “This is the name...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then I said,.... The Messiah said, by way of objection, in a view of what treatment he should meet with, or when entered on his work, and which he found by experience, what follows: I have laboured in vain; this is not to be understood of the travail of his soul, or of his sufferings and death, which were not in vain, but issued in the redemption...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for naught, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God. The Messiah, prophetically looking forward, complained that, during his life on earth, he seemed to labour in vain. The nation was not saved: “he came unto his own, and his own received him not.”...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God. Our Saviour did, in his earthly ministry, to a large extent labour in vain. “He came unto his own, and his own received him not.” He was sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, yet how few...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God. The Jews, as a nation, were not gathered unto Christ, the highly favoured people, as a whole, did not believe in him. He was expressly sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, yet John was...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And now, saith the Lord,.... Jehovah the Father, in confirmation of the call, office, and work of Christ, which he hath declared, Isaiah 49:1: that formed me from the womb to be his servant; who preordained him to this service before the world began, and prepared him for it from the womb of his mother Mary, by filling him with grace and wisdom and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength. Even though the Jewish nation be not yet gathered to Christ, his labour was not in vain. God will not suffer his Son to spend his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength. What though the Jews still reject the Messiah, their sin does not affect his honour. His glory is still as great as ever it was in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength. And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he said,.... Or "even he said"; namely, the Lord his God, that called, appointed, and strengthened him for his service: it is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel; the tribes of Jacob and the preserved of Israel are the elect of God among the Jews; though the...