The Pulpit Commentary — Isaiah — Volume 2 — Section 471

worshippers, whioh ahall inhabit the new distant Gentiles have been oonverted, they Jerusalem on equal tenne, and join continu- shall bring to Cllrist the J ewe of the dis- ally in a oommon worship of Jehovah. The persion, who dwell with them in the remote awful destruction of the wicked, and their pa.rte of the earth (comp. Zeph. iii. 10). Upon horses. Tile" new Jerusalem" being eternal sufferings, shall at tho same time be localized, the converts from the distant held in remembrance. reg!ons are represented as journeying from Ver. 19.-I will set a sign among them. their own lands to the "holy mountain," Dr. Kay suggests that the '' sig-n" is the and bringing the Jewish exiles with them resurrection of our Lord, or possibly a mira- by various methods of conveyance-upon culous manifestation of Christ which is to horses, mules, and dromedaries, in ohariots, precede his c-0ming injudgmeut. Mr. Cheyne, e.tid finally in palanquins or litters. "Litters" less veuturesnme, finds in the prophet's words were used by the gree.t men JUllong the merely a suggestion of "some mysterious Eg_yptie.ns from a very early date (see Rosel- event, wbiel, be leaves his awestruck readers hn_1, '. llfonumenti_ Civili,' p~. xciii. fig. 2; t.o imagine." Those that esoape of them. Wilkinson, • Ancient Egyptians,' vol ii. p. Not, surely, those of God's enemies that 208). They were also employed by the eurvive the slaughter, but "the remnant" Persians (Herod., iii. 146) a.nd by the later of Jews, that are not among God's enemies, Roma.us. As the ohildren of Israel bring an and so "escape." These shall be sent (as off~ring; rather, bring the meat offering. The missionuies) to the di.slant nations; not existence of the temple, and the continuance literally to those enumerated, but to such of the Levitical rites. at the time of the as at the end of the world occupy a position delivery of this prophecy, e.re clearly im- which the nations mentioned occupied on plied. Isaial,'s horizon. Of these nations, Tarshish Ver. 21.-And I will alBote.ke of them for (Tartessus) wns at the furthest limit west- priests and for Levites; literally, and I will ward, Pul and Lud, or rather Phut and Lud, also take of them unto the priests and unto at tbe furthest limit southward, Tuba! and the Levites; i.e. I will add to the existina Javan At the furthest limit northward. Pu.I, body of priests and Levites, who are pr; which occurs nowhere else in Scripture as a. sumably Jews, fresh members from the geographic namC', is almost certainly a wrong newly converted Gentiles. The existence reading for Phut, which occurs in Gen. L 6, of a sacerdotal order, with distinctions of and a.loo three times (Jer. xlvi. 9; Ezek. ranks, in the Church of the redeemed, is im- xxvii. 10; xxx.. 5) in connection with Lud. plied, and the gracious declaration is made Phnt designates an Af1ican nation, probably that the privilege of furnishing members to the Nubians, whom the Egyptians called Pet, both ranks of the order shall be conferred and who were noted as bowmen. Wetstein'e upon the Gentile proselytes. conjecture of" Pun" (Punici, 'Phamicia.ns '), Ver. 22.-As the new heavens and the new commended by Mr. Cheyne, is quite un- earth, whioh I will make, shall remain. The supported and highly improbable. Lud. It "new heavens and the new earth," once is telllpting to connect "Lud" with the created, continue for ever (comp. Rev. xxi. Lydians, wl,o were certainly known as 1-27; xxii. 1-5). Bo she.ll your seed " Ludi " tu the AsHyrians of the time of and your name remain. This statement is Asshur-Laui-pe.l (B.c. 669-626). But the usually to.ken to be a promise of some special other scripture.I notices of'' Lud" (Jer. xlvi. pre-eminence to the Jew over the Gentile 9; Ezek. xxvii. 10; m. 5), which uniformly in the fine.I kingdom of the redeemed. But connect it with Phut, point rather to an St. Paul speaks of all such privileges as African people. See also Gen. x. 13, where already abolished in his day (Col. iii. 11); the Ludim are a subdivision of the Egyptians. and. if the priesthood is to be common to That draw the bow (comp. Jer. xlvi. 9). To both Gentile and Jew, the principle of Tubal, and Javan. Tnbal stands, no doubt, equa.lity would seem to be conceded. Per- for the Tibareni, a people of the Asiatic haps no more is here meant tha.n that, ae highland west of the Upper Euphrates, the " new heaven and new earth" will called Tuplai or Tabali by the ABsyrians. always remain, so there will always rema.in They would occupy Isaiah's northern and a seed of true believers to worship God in north-western horizon, in company with them. Javau, or the Ionians ('Ia.fovu), who were Ver. 23.-P'rom one new moon to another, among the chief people of Asia Minor. and from one eabbath to another. Not tha.t Ja.van, Tubal,a.nd Meshr.ch (Moo-xoi, Muskai) '' new moons" and "sabbaths" will con- are joined in Gen. x. 2 and Ezek. xxvii. 13. tinue to be observed, for "new moons " ha.ve The isles afar off; i.e. the sllores and islands already lapsed, and "sabbaths" too will of the Mediterranean. lapse when life is one perpetual eabbe.tu Ver. \W.-They aha.ll bring all your brethren paF.sed in tllo worship of God. '.rhe phrasA for an offerillg unto the Lord. 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