7And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.
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Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. …
And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: …
Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-8)If we suppose (as many do) that this refers to the great joy which there should be in Zion and Jerusalem when the army of the Assyrians was routed by an angel, or when the Jews were released out of their captivity in Babylon, or upon occasion of some other equally surprising deliverance, yet we cannot avoid making it to look further, to the grace of the gospel and the glory which is the crown and…
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