The Pulpit Commentary on Isaiah 19:24

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

In that day shall Israel be the third; rather, a third. Not third in rank, for Isaiah 19:25 shows that she would retain a pre-eminence, but the common intermediary, brining the other two together. A blessing in the midst of the land; rather, in the midst of the earth.

Judaean monotheism, upheld by God's people in Palestine, Egypt, and Mesopotamia, would be a blessing, not only to those three countries, but to the world at large. So, and still more, would Christianity.

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