And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.
Ver. 52. Gather together in one] In one spiritual body, though in place never so distant one from another, Ephesians 4:4; "My dove is but one, the daughters saw her and blessed her," Song of Solomon 6:9. No such oneness, entireness, anywhere else. Other societies may cleave together as the toes of clay in Nebuchadnezzar's image, but not incorporate.