But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in
judgment
By the "Lord of hosts" is meant Christ, the Lord of the armies,
and of the inhabitants of the earth, of angels, and of men; who,
though in our nature, in his state of humiliation, was brought
very low, yet is now highly exalted; and which exaltation of his
is seen and known, as it is here foretold it should be, by his
judgments inflicted on the Jewish nation, for their contempt and
rejection of him; see ( Psalms 9:16 ) so Kimchi
interprets judgment of the judgment which the Lord would inflict
on the ungodly of Israel: thus Christ's exaltation is seen in
their humiliation, and his kingdom and power in their
destruction: and God that is holy;
Christ is truly and properly God, God over all, blessed for ever;
and he is holy, both as God and man; as God he is essentially and
perfectly holy; and, as man, without sin original or actual; he
is the Holy One of God, and the Holy One of Israel; and of him it
is said, he shall be sanctified in
righteousness,
or be declared to be holy; by the obedience and righteousness of
his life, wrought out for his people, whereby he becomes their
sanctification and righteousness; and by his justice, in
punishing his and his people's enemies. Were all this to be
understood of Jehovah the Father, it might very well be
interpreted, as it is by Cocceius, of his being exalted and
honoured by the condemnation of sin in the flesh of Christ; and
of his being "glorified", as the Arabic version renders it, by
the obedience and righteousness of his son, whereby his justice
is satisfied, and his law magnified, and made honourable; and by
the faith of his people, laying hold on that righteousness, and
receiving it to the glory of God; in all which the purity,
holiness, and justice of God appears.