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Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of your habitations; don`t spare: lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes.
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A Command to Prepare for Growth
Commentators agree that the imagery of enlarging a tent is a command for God's people to prepare for massive growth. This prophecy, fulfilled in Christ, points to the inclusion of people from all nations into the church. The instruction to "spare not" signifies a generous and expansive preparation for the influx of new believers God has promised.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Enlarge the place of your tent - The same idea occurs in Isaiah 49:19-20 (see the notes at that chapter). The curtains of your …
19th Century
Anglican
Enlarge the place of thy tent. —Interesting parallels are found in Isaiah 33:20; Jeremiah 10:20.
Baptist
Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy …
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16th Century
Protestant
Widen the place of your tabernacles. He continues his argument under other metaphors and promises that the Lord will not only restore his …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Enlarge the place of your tent To which the church is compared, because of its uncertain and movable condition, bein…
Observe the low state of religion in the world for a long time before Christianity was brought in. But by preaching the gospel, multitudes were con…
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13th Century
Catholic
Give praise, O you barren. Here, against the dejection of their circumstances, he promises the remedy of exaltation.
