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There shall be no more there an infant of days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child shall die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed.
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Commentators agree this verse uses poetic language to describe a future time of immense blessing. The promise of long life, where dying at 100 is considered young, symbolizes a return to patriarchal-like vitality. It's a powerful image of the peace, security, and prosperity that characterize God's renewed creation, a state where life is no longer cut short by violence or calamity.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
There shall be no more thence - The Septuagint, the Syriac, and the Vulgate read this, ‘There shall not be there.’ The change requi…
19th Century
Anglican
There shall be no more thence ... —The prophet sees in the restored city not so much an eternal and a deathless life as t…
16th Century
Protestant
There shall be no more thence an infant of days. Some think that this points out the difference between the Law and the Gospel, because
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
There shall be no more thence an infant of days That is, there shall no more be carried out from there, from Jerusal…
In the grace and comfort believers have in and from Christ, we are to look for this new heaven and new earth. The former confusions, sins and miser…
13th Century
Catholic
They have sought me. Here the judge, God, gives the sentence of separation between the wicked and the good regarding the recepti…
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