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In my holy mountain; in Zion, in my church. Wherever the gospel comes and prevails, it will have this effect.
The earth; metonymically put for the inhabitants of the earth; and as before it was used for the greater part, Isa_11:4, so here it is used for the better part of the world.
Of the knowledge of the Lord; of saying and practical knowledge; whereby he intimates that all that savageness and malignity which is in wicked men towards true Christians proceeded from their deep ignorance, and particularly from ignorance of God; and withal, that a right knowledge of God will make a marvellous and thorough change in the dispositions and conversations of men.
The sea; the channel of the sea, the thing contained being put for the thing containing, by a metonymy common in Scripture and all authors.