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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 66:7 - 66:7
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she - Zion.
Before ... travailed ... brought forth - The accession of numbers, and of prosperity to her, shall be sudden beyond all expectation and unattended with painful effort (Isa 54:1, Isa 54:4, Isa 54:5). Contrast with this case of the future Jewish Church the travail-pains of the Christian Church in bringing forth “a man child” (Rev 12:2, Rev 12:5). A man child’s birth is in the East a matter of special joy, while that of a female is not so; therefore, it here means the manly sons of the restored Jewish Church, the singular being used collectively for the plural: or the many sons being regarded as one under Messiah, who shall then be manifested as their one representative Head.