And it shall come to pass, [that] every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh.
Ver. 9. Whithersoever the river shall come, shall live.] Not die immediately, as they used to do in the Dead Sea, so bituminous and sulphurous were the waters thereof; a but live the life of grace here, and of glory in heaven. See Zec 14:8 Acts 5:20 .
And there shall be a very great multitude of fish,] i.e., Of Christians. See Matthew 4:19. See Trapp on " Mat 4:19 " Christ himself, from the initial Greek letters of his names and title, was by some of the ancients called ιχθυς, a fish. b
And everything shall live whither the river cometh.] The gospel is the true aqua vitoe, the true aurum potabile, the true physic for the soul, c as one said once concerning the library at Alexandria.
a Plin., lib. v. cap. 16.
b Iησους Cριστος υιος Yεου σωτγρ. - Aug. De Civit. Dei, lib. xviii, cap. 13.
c το της ψυχης ιατπειον .