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Isaiah 49:6 - Homilies By W.m. Statham

A Light to the Gentiles.

"It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my Servant, etc." How distinctly this prophesies concerning Christ!—

I. IN RELATION TO THE TRUE GLORY OF HIS KINGDOM . Not to exalt Jacob, or to preserve Israel, but to be a Light to the Gentiles.

II. IN RELATION TO THE HISTORY OF HIS MINISTRY . Why did the Jewish nation despise and crucify the Redeemer? It would have been a light thing to serve in such a cause as that which ministered to their glory by restoring their prestige and preeminence; but it was "heavy as the cross" to save the world.—W.M.S.

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Rev. Joseph S. Exell M.A. served as the editor of Clerical World, The Homiletical Quarterly and the Monthly Interpreter. Exell was also the editor for several other large commentary sets like The Men of the Bible, The Preacher's Homiletic Library and The Biblical Illustrator. Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones was the Vicar and Rural Dean of St. Pancras, London and the principal of Gloucester Theological College.... Show more

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Isaiah 49:6 - Homilies By W.m. Statham

Isaiah 49:6 - Homilies By W.m. Statham

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