Jew and Gentile in One Church
C. J. Blomfield, D. D. Isaiah 54:2-3 Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of your habitations: spare not, lengthen your cords… "He shall see of the travail of His soul, and shall be satisfied," are words of comfort interposed amidst forebodings of suffering and woe; and the mode of their accomplishment is more clearly pointed out by an image drawn from the habits of pastoral life, familiar to the people of eastern countries, where the nomad chief, as his family, and cattle, and goods increase, finds it necessary to "enlarge the place of" his "tent, and" to "stretch forth the curtains of" his "habitation." Under this image is represented the gradual increase of the Church, from the moment when, to human eyes, it appeared to have been crushed by the disgrace and death of its Founder, to the time when the "fulness of the Gentiles" shall have "come in," and God's ancient people shall be brought back to the same fold with them, and all "the kingdoms of this world" shall "become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ." (C. J. Blomfield, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes; WEB: "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.