In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and
with
Assyria
There shall be a triple alliance between them; Jew and Gentile
shall be made one, the middle wall of partition being broken
down; yea, Israel, or the Jews, shall be the third, or the
Mediator between them both, or the means of uniting the Gentiles
together, since the Gospel of peace was to go out from them, as
it did. Perhaps there may be an allusion to the situation of the
land of Israel between Egypt and Assyria:
[even] a blessing in the midst of the land;
or of the earth, the whole world, being the means of conveying
the blessings of grace to the several nations of the world; the
Messiah, in whom all nations are blessed, descending from them,
and the Gospel being sent out from them unto all nations, which
publishes the blessings of grace by Christ, and is the means both
of the knowledge, application, and possession of them.
