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4Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.

Isaiah 51:4

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  • But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

  • To them that are without law, as without law,(being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.

  • And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

  • 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 Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.

  • I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 4-8)

Both these proclamations, as I may call them, end alike with an assurance of the perpetuity of God’s righteousness and his salvation; and therefore we put them together, both being designed for the comfort of God’s people. Observe, I. Who they are to whom this comfort belongs: “ My people, and my nation, that I have set apart for myself, that own me and are owned by me.” Those are God’s people and…

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