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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 66:20 - 66:20
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they - the Gentiles (Isa 66:19).
bring ... your brethren - the Jews, back to the Holy Land (Isa 49:22). It cannot mean the mere entrance of the Jews into the Christian Church; for such an entrance would be by faith, not upon “horses, litters, and mules” [Houbigant]. “Offering” is metaphorical, as in Rom 15:16.
horses - not much used by the Jews. The Gentiles are here represented as using their modes of conveyance to “bring” the Jews to Jerusalem.
chariots - as these are not found in Oriental caravans, translate, “vehicles,” namely, borne, not drawn on wheels.
litters - covered sedans for the rich.
upon swift beasts - dromedaries: from Hebrew root, “to dance,” from their bounding motion, often accelerated by music [Bochart]. Panniers were thrown across the dromedaries’ back for poorer women [Horsley].