| Geneva Study Bible For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my {t} glory. (t) The Gentiles will be partakers of that glory, which before I showed to the Jews. Wesley's Notes 66:18 Come - It shall come to pass that I will cast them off, and then l will gather all nations, and c. My glory - My oracles, my ordinances, which hitherto have been locked up in the church of the Jews, and been their glory, shall be published to the Gentiles. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 18. know-not in the Hebrew. Rather, understand the words by aposiopesis; it is usual in threats to leave the persons threatened to supply the hiatus from their own fears, owing to conscious guilt: "For I . their works and thoughts," &c.; namely, will punish [Maurer]. it shall come-the time is come that I will, &c. [Maurer]. gather . nations-against Jerusalem, where the ungodly Jews shall perish; and then the Lord at last shall fight for Jerusalem against those nations: and the survivors (Isa 66:19) shall "see God's glory" (Zec 12:8, 9; 14:1-3, 9). tongues-which have been many owing to sin, being confounded at Babel, but which shall again be one in Christ (Da 7:14; Zep 3:9; Re 7:9, 10). Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 66:15-24 A prophetic declaration is given of the Lord's vengeance on all enemies of his church, especially that of all antichristian opposers of the gospel in the latter days. Ver. |