And there shall come forth a (a) rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
(a) Because the captivity of Babylon was a figure of the spiritual captivity under sin, he shows that our true deliverance must come by Christ: for as David came out of Jesse, a man without dignity, so Christ would come of a poor carpenter's house as out of a dead stock, (Isaiah 53:2).