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Isa_4:3 And it shall come to pass, [that he that is] left in Zion, and [he that] remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, [even] every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:
Ver. 3. He that is left in Zion.] See Isa_4:2.
Shall be called holy.] Heb., Holy shall be said to him or of him: he shall have the name and note of a saint, the comfort and the credit of it. Christ’s holiness shall be both imputed and imparted unto them: he shall both expiate their sins and heal their natures, pay their debts, and give them a stock of grace and holiness, so that men shall call them a "holy people." {Isa_62:12}
Even every one that is written among the living.] Written in God’s book of life, which is matter of greater joy than to have the devils subdued unto us; {Luk_10:17} for a man may cast out devils, and yet be himself cast to the devil; {Mat_7:22-23} but in God’s book of life there are no blots, no crossings out, but "as many as are ordained to eternal life believe," and the same are "kept as in a garrison by the power of God through faith unto salvation." {1Pe_1:4} The prophet seemeth here to allude to that custom in Jerusalem of enrolling the names of all the citizens. {Psa_87:6} Christ Jesus is the Master of the Rolls in heaven, {Rev_13:8} wherein none are recorded but such as are designed "to glory and virtue." {1Pe_1:2 2Th_2:13} All others are said to be "dead in trespasses and sins," {Eph_2:1} and to be "written in the earth." {Jer_17:13} Those priests that could not produce their genealogy were cashiered by the Tirshatha: {Ezr_2:63} so shall those one day be by Christ whose names are not found written among the living in Jerusalem.