Nevertheless. For, This member (Isaiah 9:1-7) relates to Messiah, the Son, referring back to Isaiah 8:9; Isaiah 8:10. and carries Isaiah 7:14 on to its future fulfilment, See App-102.
dimness. vexation. Almost the same two words as dimness. anguish (Isaiah 8:22).
at the first. When Ben-hadad, in the reign of Baasha, "smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-beth-maachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali" (1 Kings 15:20)
the land, &c. Quoted in Luke 1:79.
afterward. Referring to the heavier scourge when Hazael "smote all the coasts of Israel from Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead" (2 Kings 10:32; 2 Kings 10:33). This land was the first to be afflicted by the armies of Assyria (2 Kings 15:29, and was the first to see the promised light in the person of the Messiah.