The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust [shall be] the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.
Ver. 25. The wolf and the lamb shall feed together.] Heb., As one. a See Isaiah 11:6. There shall be a holy harmony of hearts, and all good agreement among Christ's subjects, when they come to heaven especially.
And dust shall be the serpent's meat.] He shall be held in to his first condemnation. Gen 3:14 The devil also, that old serpent, shall be limited to the heel of the saints; the head he shall not touch; he shall be tied up to his own meat - viz., that unquenchable fire prepared for him and his angels from the beginning.
They shall not hurt, &c.] See on Isaiah 11:9 .
a Antipathiam in sympathiam convertent. - A Lapide.