Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadMatthew Poole Commentary - Isaiah 4:4 - 4:4
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion: this shall be accomplished when God hath thoroughly cleansed the Jewish nation from their sins. The blood; the blood-guiltness, and especially that of killing the Lord of life, their own Messiah.
By the Spirit of judgment, and by the Spirit of burning: this is opposed to the former legal way of purification, which was by water. By
the Spirit he seems to understand the Holy Spirit of God, to which this washing and purging work is commonly ascribed, as 1Co_6:11, and elsewhere; which Spirit did accompany the preaching of the gospel, and did this work in part in some of the Jews, and will do it more fully in the body of the nation. And this Spirit may well be called a Spirit of judgment, because it executes judgment in the church, and in the consciences of men, separating the precious from the vile, convincing men of sin, and righteousness, and judgment, Joh_16:8-11, manifesting the secrets of men’s hearts in the preaching of the word, 1Co_14:25; accusing, and terrifying, and punishing some, witnessing for and with others, and filling them with peace and joy in believing; hardening some, and softening and subduing others to God, as this Spirit is particularly promised to do to the Jews, Zec_12:10. And the same Spirit may be fitly called the Spirit of burning, as he is compared to fire, Mat_3:11, because he doth burn up and consume the dross which is in the church, and in the minds and hearts of men, and inflames the souls of believers with love to God, and zeal for his glory.