Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
Ver. 16. Bind up the testimony, seal the law, &c.] Et lateat, et lucent. let it both be hidden and be conspicuous. Let thy doctrine, saith God here to the prophet, contained in that great roll, Isa 8:1 or otherwise published (concerning Immanuel especially), be concealed from these profane scoffers, but imparted to my disciples that "sit down at my feet to receive my word." Deu 33:3 Those Jews in Christ's time had the testimony, that is, the gospel preached to them; but they were woefully blinded; so that when the Messiah, to whom all their odd signs so well agreed, was among them, they could by no means own him and receive him. Mat 2:5 Joh 1:11 That Italian translation of the New Testament which the Jews lately had, is, for their abuse of it, called in and taken from them. Pope Gregory IX caused their Talmud, wherein Christian religion is so much blasted, to be burned; and the like did Julius III about the year 1553.
Seal the law among my disciples.] Such as have been θεοδιδακτοι, "taught of God," taught "as the truth is in Jesus." Eph 4:20-21 Seal the law, that "perfect law of liberty," the gospel, for such, for their behoof and support in these calamitous times.