O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
Ver. 5. O house of Jacob.] So Micah 2:7, "O thou that art called the house of Jacob, and the house of Israel." Isa 5:7 Thou that art "called a Jew, and makest thy boast of God." Rom 2:17 This Rupertus maketh to be the voice and advice of the converted and Christian Gentiles to the Jews; others, of our prophet to his perverse countrymen to join with the Gentiles, or rather to go before them as worthy guides in heavenly ways, and not to lie behind those whom they have so much slighted. a
Let us walk in the light of the Lord.] That is, in the law of the Lord (for Lex est Lux, Law is light, Pro 6:23) and not by the sparks of our own tinder boxes, Isa 50:11 not by the rush candle of philosophical prescriptions. Let us "walk in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost." as Act 9:31
a Per semulationem provocat. - Oecolamp.