Isaiah 60:3 And the Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising. I have read in one of George Macdonald's novels of a born blind lamplighter. He illumined the city at night; but he had no sense of what he was doing. So has it been with this land. She has presented the Portrait to the gallery; she has heard the plaudits of the spectators, and she has refused to join in them. In all history there is nothing so unique. It is the enemies of this land that have crowned her world-king; it is the Gentiles that have come to His light. The lamplighter has been blind to the beauty of that throne which she has illuminated. Palestine has lit up the scene; she has listened to the crowd shouting their applause, and she has wondered why. She has been like a deaf mute in a concert-room. She has struck by accident the notes of a harp, and by accident they have burst into music. The audience has cheered the performance to the echo; but the performer knows not her triumph. (G. Matheson, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.WEB: Nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising. |
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