Isaiah 61:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves. ”

• Isaiah 61:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  But ye shall be named - The idea here literally is, ‘There will be no need of your engaging in the business of agriculture. All that will be done by others; and you, as ministers of God, may enga...

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• Isaiah 61:6 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  But ye shall be named the (k) Priests of the LORD: [men] shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the (l) riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves. (k) This...

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• Isaiah 61:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The prophet now addresses the people directly. Men of other nations shall serve as labourers at their bidding and call them Yahweh's priests, or Servants of our God, recognising Yahweh as such. As a...

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• Isaiah 61:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Be shall be named, &c. Reference to Pentateuch ( Exodus 19:6 ). the Ministers of our God. Reference to the technical phrase, common in the Law. See Exodus 28:35 . Numbers 16:9 ; Deuteronom...

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• Isaiah 61:6 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  6. But ye shall be called the priests of Jehovah. This verse sheds somewhat more light on the preceding; for in the second part of it the Prophet foretells that believers shall enjoy the ric...

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• Isaiah 61:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.

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• Isaiah 61:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our...

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• Isaiah 61:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  1. The speaker is the prophet, either in his own person, or in that of the Servant of Jehovah. The mission here spoken of is identical with the mission of the Servant as already indicated; e.g. to...

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• Isaiah 61:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  But ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord... — This had been the original ideal of the nation’s life ( Exodus 19:6 ), forfeited for a time through the sins of the people ( Exodus 28:1 ), to be...

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• Isaiah 61:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “The Acceptable Year of the Lord” Isaiah 61:1-11 Messiah's mission , Isaiah 61:1-3 . At Nazareth our Lord applied these words to Himself. Let us care for the outcasts as He did; but to do so...

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• Isaiah 61:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Passing from the description of material prosperity, the prophecy describes the inner secret, namely, spiritual realization. This description opens with a new declaration of the Servant of the Lord....

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• Isaiah 61:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  As the Lord Jesus was so well known to his people, by the tenderness of his Person and Character; so his Church had her features from her connection with her Lord, by which she was to be known also.

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• Isaiah 61:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  But ye shall be named the priests of the Lord ,.... Or, "and ye shall be named", c. which Jerom understands of the builders of cities, pastors of flocks, the ploughmen and vinedressers, the stranger...

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• Isaiah 61:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: [men] shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves. Ver. 6. But ye...

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• Isaiah 61:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  But ye shall be named the Priests , &c. The whole body of you shall now be as near to God as the priests were formerly, and shall be a royal priesthood, 1 Peter 2:9 . This is most certainly tru...

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• Isaiah 61:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Office of the Messiah; The Prosperity of the Church. B. C. 706.       4 And they shall b...

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• Isaiah 61:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  But ye shall be named the Priests; for your part, ye emphatically shall be as priests; either, 1. For maintenance ; as the priests of old were plentifully provided for without their labour, so s...

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• Isaiah 61:6 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Isaiah Adds His Words to Those of the Anointed One ( Isaiah 61:5-7 a). It is not always clear in this chapter who is speaking. In Isaiah 61:1-3 and probably 4 it is the Anointed One. In Isaiah...

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• Isaiah 61:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  GOD’S PRIESTHOOD v. MAN’S PRIESTCRAFT Isaiah 61:6 . But ye shall be named the priests of the Lord. To such low purposes has the noble word of “priest” been prostituted, so vilely has it been d...

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• Isaiah 61:6 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Isaiah 61:1-2 . The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to t...

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• Isaiah 61:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Isaiah 61:1 . The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me. Here the Redeemer appears clothed with humanity, and invested with all the high offices of our redemption. Jehovah gave not the Spirit by measu...

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• Isaiah 61:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

  The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me The Speaker; probably the Servant of Jonah Who is the speaker here? The Targum prefaces the passage with the words, “The prophet says,” and, except a few,...

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• Isaiah 61:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  SECTION VIII .— SOLILOQUY OF THE SERVANT OF THE LORD , WHO PROMISES GLORY AND PROSPERITY TO JERUSALEM ( Isaiah 61:1-23 ; Isaiah 62:1-23 .). EXPOSITION Isaiah 61...

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• Isaiah 61:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Lord's Year of Jubilee. The chapter opens with a powerful description of the office of the Servant of Jehovah, of the Messiah Himself.

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• Isaiah 61:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 3:5 ; 1 Corinthians 4:1 ; 1 Peter 2:5 ; 1 Peter 2:9 ; 2 Corinthians 11:23 ; 2 Corinthians 6:4 ; Acts 11:28-30 ; Ephesians 4:11 ; Ephesians 4:12 ; Exodus 19:6 ; Ezekiel 14:11...

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• Isaiah 61:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  The priests — The whole body of them shall now be as near to God as the priests were formerly, and shall be a royal priesthood. This is most certainly true of all the faithful under the gospel.

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