He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take
root
That is, the posterity of Jacob, the seed of Israel, in a
spiritual sense; such who are Israelites indeed, in whom there is
no guile; these shall be so far from being plucked up, or rooted
out of the vineyard, the church, that they shall take deeper
root, and their roots shall spread yet more and more; they shall
be rooted and grounded in the love of God, and also in Christ,
and be built up in him, as well as firmly settled and established
in the church, ( Ephesians
3:17 ) ( Colossians
2:7 ) or, "them that come to Jacob F21";
proselytes unto him, converted Gentiles, that come to the church
of Christ, signified by "Jacob", and give up themselves unto it,
and are added to it, these shall take root. The words may be
rendered, in days "to come, he shall cause Jacob to take root":
or, he "shall take root", as Aben Ezra, Jarchi, and Ben Melech
supply the words; and so they are a prophecy of the stability and
prosperous estate of the church in the latter day: Israel
shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world
with
fruit;
which may be understood of the fruits of grace and righteousness,
which shall appear upon the people of God, in all parts of the
world; or of the great number of converts everywhere; so the
Targum, by "fruit", understands children's children; the sense
is, that when the church of God, in the latter day, is settled
and established, grounded in Christ, and in the doctrines of
grace, it shall be in very flourishing and fruitful
circumstances, abounding in grace and good works, and with
numbers of converts; it shall be like the mustard tree, when it
becomes so great a tree as that the birds of the air make their
nests in it; and as the stone cut out of the mountain without
hands, when it becomes a great mountain, and fills the whole
earth, ( Matthew
13:31 Matthew
13:32 ) ( Daniel 2:35 ) compare
with this ( Isaiah 37:31
) .