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Micah 4:2

The Pulpit Commentary on Micah 4:2

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

The prophet further explains his last statement The new revelation shall be so conspicuous and so attractive that all men shall hear, and desire to become partakers of it. Many nations. In contrast to the one nation from whom the Leer emanated.

They shall exhort one another to resort to the great religious metropolis, i.e. to the true religion. Of his ways. His plans in the moral government of the world, and the way in which he would have men walk in order to please him.

For the law (torah); teaching, direction; not the Mosaic Law, but a rule of life (). This is the reason given by the prophet for the eagerness of the nations to resort to Jerusalem. They would seek instruction at the hand of those authorized to give it (see note on ).

The word of the Lord. The revelation of Jehovah, the gospel. From Jerusalem. It is obvious that in a defined sense the gospel sprang from Jerusalem, the place where Christ exercised his ministry, died, rose, ascended; where the apostles received their commission and the gift of the Holy Ghost (; ); the gospel being not set up in opposition to the Law, but being its fulfilment and development.

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