another deadly serpent, perhaps the Daboia he abides for ever (Matt. nviii. 20), The tMnthina (Tristmm, 'Natural Hist. of the Shechiaa.h of his presence makes the Ohuroh Bible'). "glorious" (litorally, "a glory") through• Ver. !l.-Ky holy mounta.in. All the out all ages; but the glory will not fully Jewish Chnrd1 is al we.ye bound up with the appear till the time of the " new heavens "holy hill of Zion," so the Messianic one and new earth" (eh. lxv. 17; Rev. xxi, receives the designation of " the mountain xxii.), when he will dwell visibly with it. of the Lord" (oh. ii. 8; x.xx. 29; MiOl\h iv. Ver. 11.-The Lord lb.all set hill hand 2), or "the holy monntain" (Zech. viii. 8). again the eeoond time to reoover, eto. The What was physically true of the type is first recovery was from the servitude in tr&nsferred to the anti type, which is "a city Egypt. Isaiah now foresees that there will set upon a hill" in a certain sense. The be a. dispersion of the Israelites through earth shall be full of the knowledge of the several distant lands, instead of a mere Lord (comp. Hab. ii. 14; Joel ii. 28; Matt. transforence of them from one land to =viii. 29). A fruitful knowledge, guiding another, as in Ja.cob's time (Gen. xlvi. 1- and influencing conduct, seems to be in- 29). God, who brought them out of Egypt, tended (see below, eh. liv. 13, "All thy will likewise some day "set his hand" to children shall be taught of the Lord, and recover them from the various countries great shall be the peace of thy children "). through which they will have been dis- All the waters oover the sea; i.e. "as the persed, e.nd restore them to their own land ocean covers and fills the bed prepared for once more. The first fulfilment of the iL 0 prophecy was undoubtedly_ the return from Vere. 10-13.-THE JEWS AND GENTILES the Ba.bylania.n captivity. A secondary SHALL BE GATHERED TOGETHER INTO MES• fulfilment may have been the gathering of sue:'s KINGDOM. It is characteristic of so many Jews from all 9.u,i.rters into the "the evangelical prophet" that he dwells Christian Church (Acts h. 9-41). It ia possible that there may be ultimately 11, earnestly and frequently on the calling of fnrther fulfilment in o. final gathering the Gentiles (see eh. ii. 2; rix. 22-25; together of lsr&el into their own land, XX'I'. 6; x.xvii. 18, etc.). 'The prophecies to :From Assyria. Assyria is placed 'first be- Abraham he.d rept!a.tedly declared that "in cause already the bulk of the Israelites, as him," or " in his seed," " e.ll the families of distinct from the Jews, he.d been carried into Assyria by Tiglath-Pileser (2 Kings the earth should be blessed" (Gen. xii. 3; XY, 29) and Sargon (2 Kings xvii. 6; xviii. :icviii. 18; x::rii. 18; xxvi. 4); and some of 11), and were captives there at the time the psalmists had echoed the glad sound when Isaiah wrote. The transportation of and spoken of God e.s worshipped genera.Uy Israelites to the other places mentioned by " the nations" (Ps. cxvii. l ; cxl viii 11). was subsequent to his day. Egypt . . . Pathros. There was a great migration of But the idea had taken little hold upon the Jews into Egypt in the time of Jeremiah chosen people generally ; and was practi- (xliii. 7; xliv. 1), and a steady influx cally new to them when Isaiah was in- for some generations under the early spired to preach it afresh. To render it Ptolemies. There was also a second large the more pa.la.table, he unites with it the migration in the time of Onie.s. The Jewish element in, Alexandria for some promise of a. great gathering of the dispersed centuries both before and after Christ was Israelites from a.ll quarters to the banner of very considerable. Pa.throe was probably Messiah, when 1t is set up. 11, portion of Upper Egypt, perhaps the
Ver. 10.-There eh.ell be a root of 1esse. Phaturite nome, which was the district The " root " of this pla.ce is the same as the about Thebes. It is mentioned e.s the ".rod " and " branch " of ver. I. The residence of certain Jews in the time of "rod " springs up out of a "root," and is Jeremiah (xliv. 1, 15). From Cush, inseparably connected with it. Whioh shall " Cush " here •J:nBY be either the Afrioo.n llte.nd for an ensign of the people ; rather; or the Asiatic. It ls slightly in favour of of the peoples. The " rod " shall lift itself the African that we' hear in the Acts of an up, e.nd become an ensign, seen f~om a.far, Ethiopian eunuch who was a. Jew in the and attracting to itself the attention of service of Candace, Queen of the African "the peoples" or "nations" generally. The Ethiopia. (Acts viii. 27). And it is against Acts aud Epistles show how speedily this the Asiatic that it was 110 remote. It ad- prophr-cy was fulfilled. Greeks, Romans, joined, however, upon Elam. From Elam, Ge.hti~ns, Oe.ppe.docians, Babylonians (1 and from Shinar. " Elam " was the fertile !"et. '".· 13), se.w the ensign, and sought t.o tract of alluvial land to the east of the it. _His rest lhall be glorions; rather, hie Tigris, between that stream and the moun- restin!J-p~ ; Le. his Church, with which tains, parallel with Babylonia. Its capital .rm. xr. 1-16.] THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH. 206