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A Promise of Total Liberation
All commentators agree this verse promises a complete end to oppression, symbolized by a burden being lifted and a yoke being shattered. Scholars like John Calvin and Matthew Henry extend this promise beyond the immediate threat of Assyria, seeing it as a pattern for God's ultimate deliverance of believers from the tyranny of sin and Satan through Christ.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Theologian
His burden shall be taken away – The oppressions and exactions of the Assyrian.
From off your shoulder – We …
19th Century
Bishop
The yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing ... —The English, as it stands, is scarcely intelligible, but suggests the id…
16th Century
Theologian
And it shall come to pass in that day. It is uncertain whether he now speaks of the deliverance that took place under Zerubbabel ([Referen…
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17th Century
Pastor
And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] his burden
shall be taken away from off your shoulder<…
17th Century
Minister
Through our afflictions, we may learn not to place our confidence in created things. Only those who return to him in truth, not in pretense and out…