13But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
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For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. …
Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. …
And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches. …
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-13)God takes Isaiah at his word, and here sends him on a strange errand—to foretel the ruin of his people and even to ripen them for that ruin—to preach that which, by their abuse of it, would be to them a savour of death unto death. And this was to be a type and figure of the state of the Jewish church in the days of the Messiah, when they should obstinately reject the gospel, and should thereupon b…
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