Awake, awake! Put on thy strength, O Zion, arousing herself from her dejection and assuming the proper confidence in view of the happy message which is now proclaimed; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the Holy City, in view of her coming elevation and glorification, for the restoration of Jerusalem was a type of the renewal of the Church of God in the Messianic era; for henceforth, after the consecration by the redemption of the Messiah, there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean, any one not in communion with the God of the covenant. In the Zion of the New Testament the Lord Himself reigns in an uninterrupted rule of mercy, the outward membership of hypocrites not being regarded as a true membership.
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Isaiah 52:1
1 Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.