Isaiah 2:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

Many people (peoples) shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord. If the curse foretold against Israel has been literally fulfilled, so shall the promised blessing be literal. We Gentiles must not, while giving them the curse, deny them their special blessing by spiritualizing it.

He will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths. The Holy Spirit shall be poured out for a general conversion then, and the Jews shall be the instruments whose ministry shall be blessed in effecting it (Jeremiah 50:5; Zechariah 8:21; Zechariah 8:23; Joel 2:28).

For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. Luke 24:47 is an earnest of the future relations of Jerusalem to Christendom, (Romans 11:12; Romans 11:15, "if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles, how more their fullness? ... For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?")

Isaiah 2:3

3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.