Teks -- Isaiah 60:1 (NET)

Zion’s Future Splendor

60:1 “Arise! Shine! For your light arrives! The splendor of the Lord shines on you!

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Wesley: Isa 60:1 - Arise

A word of encouragement accommodated to the Jewish, or Hebrew style, wherein, as by lying down, is described a servile and calamitous condition, Isa 47:1, so by rising, and standing up, a recovery out of it, into a free, and prosperous one, as may be seen frequently; Rouze up, intimating her deliverance to be at hand. Here under a type, of Jerusalem's restoration, is displayed the flourishing state of the Gentile - church, under the Messiah.

Wesley: Isa 60:1 - Thy light

Thy flourishing and prosperous state.

JFB: Isa 60:1 - Arise

From the dust in which thou hast been sitting as a mourning female captive (Isa 3:26; Isa 52:1-2).

JFB: Isa 60:1 - shine

Or, "be enlightened; for thy light cometh"; impart to others the spiritual light now given thee (Isa 60:3). The Margin and GESENIUS translate, "Be enlightened"; be resplendent with posterity; imperative for the future indicative, "Thou shalt be enlightened" (Isa 58:8, Isa 58:10; Eph 5:8, Eph 5:14).

JFB: Isa 60:1 - glory of the Lord

Not merely the Shekinah, or cloud of glory, such as rested above the ark in the old dispensation, but the glory of the Lord in person (Jer 3:16-17).

JFB: Isa 60:1 - is risen

As the sun (Mal 4:2; Luk 1:78, Margin).

Clarke: Isa 60:1 - Arise

Arise - Call upon God through Christ, for his salvation; and

Clarke: Isa 60:1 - Shine

Shine - אורי ori , be illuminated: for till thou arise and call upon God, thou wilt never receive true light

Clarke: Isa 60:1 - For thy light is come

For thy light is come - כי בא אורך ki ba orech , for thy light cometh. The Messiah is at the door; who, while he is a light to lighten the Gentiles, will be the glory - the effulgence, of his people Israel.

Calvin: Isa 60:1 - Arise, be bright // For thy brightness is come // The glory of Jehovah

1.Arise, be bright He now shows what is the efficacy of that word of which he formerly ¹⁵⁰ spoke; for he raises up a prostrate and afflicted Church, and restores her to her brightness; and, because he represents the person of God, he now declares his authority. For this reason he employs the form of command, that the word spoken might be more efficacious; as if, in the exercise of absolute power, he put the Church in possession of that happier condition which he had promised. The amount of what is said is, that believers may know that he does not scatter his words in the air, but speaks with effect.

He bids her “arise,” because he formerly told her to “lie down;” and these two words stand in contrast with each other. Of Babylon he formerly said, “Come down, sit in the dust.” (Isa 47:1) Of the Jews themselves he said, “My people shall sit in the dust.” On the other hand, he says, “Arise, arise, put on the garments of thy beauty.” (Isa 52:1) Thus, by what may be called the stretching out of his hand, he lifts up the Church again, that she who had formerly been prostrated, and covered all over with filth and pollution, may regain her seat of honor.

For thy brightness is come That the darkness of afflictions may not overwhelm the Jews with despair, he says that the light which had been hidden would soon afterwards arise, alluding to the alternation of day and night. As if he had said, “The Lord, having compassion upon thee, will rescue thee out of this darkness in which thou liest; thou hast been sufficiently punished; it is time that thy condition should begin to be improved.” By the word brightness, therefore, he metaphorically denotes salvation and prosperity, as by “darkness” he formerly denoted a calamitous state of the Church.

The glory of Jehovah He mentions at the same that this light will arise from no other quarter than from God’s smiling countenance, when he shall be pleased to display his grace; for everything goes well when the Lord shines upon us by his light; and, when he turns away from us, nothing that can befall us is more wretched and unhappy.

TSK: Isa 60:1 - Arise // shine; for thy light is come // the glory

Arise : Isa 52:1, Isa 52:2; Mat 5:16; Eph 5:8, Eph 5:14; Phi 2:15

shine; for thy light is come : or, be enlightened, for thy light cometh, Isa 60:19, Isa 60:20, Isa 9:2; Mat 4:16; Luk 1:78, Luk 1:79; Joh 1:9, Joh 3:19, Joh 8:12, Joh 12:46; Eph 5:8; Rev 21:23, Rev 22:5

the glory : Mal 4:2; Luk 2:32; 1Pe 4:14

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Poole: Isa 60:1 - Arise

Arise a word of encouragement accommodated to the Jewish or Hebrew style, wherein, as by lying down is described a servile and calamitous condition, Isa 47:1 ; so by rising , and standing up, a recovery out of it into a free and prosperous one, as may be seen frequently. Rouse up ; intimating her deliverance to be at hand. And here under a type, or hieroglyphical description of Jerusalem’ s restoration, is displayed the flourishing state of the Gentile church under the Messiah, and that in the greatness, for quality, and also the number of her proselytes; in the description whereof the evangelical prophet, whatever he doth in other parts of his prophecy, doth here most briskly sparkle forth in Divine eloquence. Shine ; discover thyself as one breaking forth from a dark night; or, look out, as men do at sea, who use to look out sharp, to see what they can discover after a dark and stormy season; or, be enlightened with more knowledge; or, be thou filled with joy; a metaphorical metonymy of the efficient; as thou art about to change thy condition, change thy countenance; be cheerful in that light or salvation that is approaching. Thy light ; either,

1. Thy flourishing and prosperous estate; an allusion to people’ s rising, when after a dark night the light breaks forth. they begin to rise. Or,

2. The causer of thy light, the effect for the efficient, viz. thy God, or Christ, because the fountain of all happiness, as the sun and moon are called lights, because they give light, Gen 1:16 . Thus Christ is called the true Light , Joh 1:9 ; and compare Joh 8:12 , with Eph 5:14 , and you will find these words quoted to that purpose. The glory of the Lord , i.e. the greatest glory, as the cedars of God, the mountains of God, &c.: compare Rev 21:11 : or, the glorious Lord, or the Lord of glory , or Christ, who is the glory of the Father, is come unto thee; he is at hand to make himself glorious in some wonderful work for thy salvation, either in his doctrine, or miracles, or work of redemption, that his glory may rest upon thee, suitable to the psalmist’ s prayer, Psa 85:6,7,9 . Is risen ; like as when the sun spreads itself into every place, leaving none dark: thus it refers to the glorious gospel, called such a glorious light, 2Co 4:4 .

Haydock: Isa 60:1 - O Jerusalem // Lord

O Jerusalem, is not in Hebrew or St. Jerome, but in the Septuagint. Some few things may refer to the terrestrial Jerusalem, though the prophet speaks chiefly of the celestial and of the Church. ---

Lord, very great. Christ came to save us. (Calmet) ---

God prevents by his grace, but man must co-operate to be justified. (Worthington)

Gill: Isa 60:1 - Arise, shine // for thy light is come // and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee

Arise, shine,.... The Targum adds, "O Jerusalem"; and so the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions; and no doubt but the church of God is here addressed: and by what follows it seems to be the Jewish church, as distinct from the Gentiles, since they are said to come to it, the Jews, now converted, and brought into a church state; and who are called upon to arise out of their low dejected state and condition, in which they have long lain, and "shine": or to "awake", as some ^p render it, out of that sleep and lethargy they have been so long in, and to shine forth in the exercise of grace and discharge of duty: or to be "enlightened" ^q; with the light of Christ and of the Gospel, now come unto them; and to diffuse this light to others, to hold it forth in profession and conversation; see Mat 5:16.

for thy light is come: the Targum,

"for the time of thy redemption is come;''

meaning from the Babylonish captivity, which that paraphrase refers to: but this is not intended here, but the spiritual prosperity and happiness of the Jews in the latter day, at the time of their conversion; and the sense is, either that Christ, the Light of the world, was come unto them in a spiritual way; or that the glorious light of the Gospel of Christ was come unto them, and shone upon them; or the time was come that the blindness that had been so long upon them should be taken oft, and the veil be taken away they had been so long covered with, and they be turned to the Lord, the fulness of the Gentiles now being about to be brought in; see Rom 11:25,

and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee; or the glorious Lord; he, whose glory is to be seen, as the glory of the only begotten, who is the brightness of his Father's glory, the sun of righteousness; who shall now, rise upon these, and, leave a glory upon them that shall be visible.