Isaiah 25:6
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What does Isaiah 25:6 mean?
And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto
all
people a feast of fat things
Which is to be understood, not of the ultimate glory of the
saints in heaven; which is sometimes represented by a feast; and
the participation of it, by sitting down with the saints at a
table in the kingdom of God, and by drinking wine there, to which
state the best things are reserved, ( Matthew 8:11
) ( 26:29
) , but rather of the Gospel dispensation, which lies in the
ministration of the word and ordinances; and which are compared
to a feast, which consists of the richest dainties, for the
entertainment of the faith of God's people; and this is made by
the Lord himself, who is sovereign Lord of all, the King of
kings; who sits at table himself, and welcomes his guests, and is
the sum and substance of the feast: and this is made in his
"mountain"; the church, comparable to one for its visibility and
immovableness; and for "all" his "people", Jews and Gentiles; for
all that are made spiritually alive, and have a spiritual taste,
and true faith in Christ, ( Matthew 22:4
) ( Luke
14:16 Luke 14:17 )
particularly the Lord's supper itself is a feast, and a feast of
love, comparable to wine; and which is better than wine, and in
which wine, in a literal sense, is made use of; and in which the
choicest and richest food is presented to faith; the flesh and
blood of Christ, which are meat and drink indeed; here the saints
are fed as with marrow and fatness, ( 1
Corinthians 5:7 1
Corinthians 5:8 ) ( Song of
Solomon 1:2 Song of
Solomon 1:4 ) ( John 6:55 ) ( Psalms 36:8 ) (
63:5 ) but it
seems rather to respect the marriage supper of the Lamb, in the
latter day, when antichrist shall be destroyed, and Jews and
Gentiles be converted, and shall join together in the
participation of divine blessings, ( Revelation
19:1 Revelation
19:2 Revelation
19:8 Revelation
19:9 ) or, best of all, the glories, joys, and pleasures of
the New Jerusalem state; in which the saints shall drink of the
water of life freely, and eat of the fruit of the tree of life,
the leaves of which are for the healing of the nations, (
Revelation 21:6 ) (
Revelation 22:1
Revelation 22:2 )
a feast of wines on the lees;
that has been long kept on the lees, but now drawn off, and both
strong and fine; of a banquet of wine, see ( Esther 7:2 ) this refers
to the wine of the kingdom, ( Matthew
26:29 ) : of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the
lees well refined:
this heap of words, and repetition of them, show the plenty of
the provisions, and the richness and excellency of them; and
"fat" being mentioned is a proof that the words must respect the
times of the Messiah, since, under the law, fat was not to be
eaten F5.
F5 Fortunatus Scacchus, in Sacror. Elaeochr. Myrothec. l. 1. c. 40. col. 205. thinks, that as the prophet speaks of the deliverance of believers from present troubles, and of good things at the coming of the Messiah, the metaphors are taken from the customs of that age, in which feasts were not prepared without the best of ointments; nor in a royal feast were the flesh of any animals used but such as were well fed and kept, and which, according to the law were pure and clean; and agreeably he renders the whole verse thus: ``and the Lord of hosts will make to all people a feast of ointments; a feast of those (animals) that are kept; of ointments full of marrow (the richest and fattest) of those that are kept''; "pure" beasts, well kept and clean, according to the law of Moses. So Gussetius observes, that (Nmv) signifies not fat, but oil; and (Myrmv) not "lees" of wine, but bottles in which wine is "kept", Comment. Ebr. p. 868, 872. The Syriac version of the latter part of the text, though not according to the original, is remarkable; ``the feast, I say, of our heavenly and most mighty quickener, reserved and fat.''. The interpreter seems to have in his view the great master of the feast, our Lord Jesus Christ.
