...neighbourhood of Tyre, Sidon, &c. The word Gentiles includes in the scriptures all who are not Jews. 1 6 The people which sat in darkness, saw great light...the region and shadow of death, light is sprung up. 16. ' The people which sat in darkness.' Those who are ignorant of God, and their duty, are said to...

...Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles ; use "the Lord had laid upon Him the iniquity of us...recalls to recollection the expressive type given in (Matt. iv. 13—17.) It was the Gospel of the grace of God as proclaimed on the shores of the Sea of...

...Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles ; c the people which sat in darkness saw great light;...the region and shadow of death light is sprung up. .* See 2 Kings, v. called there Elisha. •*' Escaped miraculously, making himself invisible. ' Upper...

...Zabulon, and the land of Nephthaiim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles ; 16 The people which sat in darkness, saw great light;...the region and shadow of death, light is sprung up. 17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent : for the kingdom of heaven is at hand....

...Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles ; 16 The people which sat in darkness saw great light :...which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprang up. If <fi From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven...

...fulfilled, in the strictest sense, that prophecy of Isaiah, " the people which sat in dark" ness have seen a great light, and to them which " sat in the region and shadow of death, light is " sprung up." What the prophet here represents under the notion of darkness, and the re* gion and shadow of death,...

...a full perception and confession of it : this was cause of joy to the prophet, when he could say, " The '' people which sat in darkness saw great " light,...region " and shadow of death, light is sprung up." The genuine inspired writings of holy men we read, and ought often to read for our edification, the...

...appear ; to begin to appear or to exist. When the day began to if ring, they let her go. 3r<"fc»To them which sat in the region and shadow of death, light is if rung up. MaJtben, Fly, fly,prophane fogs '. far hence fly aivay, Taint not the pure streams of the...

...Nephthalim, l/y the way of the sea beyond J ordan, Galilee of the Gentiles : 1 6 The people which sut in darkness, saw great light : and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death, light is fcprung up; 17 ^f From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven...

...the next verse, as a people sitting, or dwelling, in darkness. 16. The people which sat in dark' ness saw great light ; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death, light is sprung up. The passage here quoted will be found in chap. ix. of the prophecy of Isaiah and the two first verses....