A seed shall serve him
That is, Christ shall always have a seed to serve him in every
age; a remnant according to the election of grace; see ( Romans 9:29 ) ; so that
as the former verses speak of the amplitude of Christ's kingdom,
through the calling of the Gentiles, these words and the
following express the duration of it: and this "seed" either
means Christ's seed; so the Septuagint version, and others that
follow it, render it, "my seed"; the spiritual seed and offspring
of Christ, which the Father has given him, and which shall endure
for ever, ( Isaiah 53:10
) ( Psalms
89:29 Psalms 89:36
) ; or else the church's seed, which comes to the same thing; not
the natural seed of believers, but a succession of godly men in
the church, who are born in her, and nursed up at her side; see (
Isaiah
59:21 ) ; such shall, and do, in every age serve Christ,
willingly and cheerfully, in righteousness and true holiness,
without slavish fear, and yet with reverence and godly fear. The
Chaldee paraphrase is, "the seed of Abraham shall serve before
him"; but this seed designs not the Jews only, but the Gentiles
also, and chiefly;
it shall be accounted to the Lord for a
generation;
of his people, his children whom he accounts of, reckons, and
esteems as such; or the seed shall be reckoned to the Lord, as
belonging to him, "unto generation"; that is, in every generation
F17, throughout all ages, to the end of
time; so the Targum, "to an after generation"; or "a generation
to come".
F17 (rwdl) "in quacunque generatione", Noldius, p. 236. No. 1076.