Isaiah 54:13 And all your children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of your children. When a strip of wood or forest has been destroyed by fire, it will sometimes happen that new and better species of trees grow up and take the place of those which have been burned. The seed had been long buried within the ground, but all to no purpose, because it was forestalled and overshadowed by the growths which first got possession of the soil. The earlier species were like feudal lords, who had seized the land and monopolized all the mists and the dews and the rains that came to moisten the sunburnt earth. But in their downfall hidden and worthier seeds had a chance of light and life and dominion. And is it not thus with human nature? The seed of every truth is within us, although there may often be little outward sign of that significant fact. The proud growths of the flesh overshadow, stifle, and choke down the inner growths of the conscience and the moral life. But at last the Spirit of God comes to us like a consuming fire, and then the superficial growths of passion and prejudice are burnt away, and seeds of sublime truth that had been slumbering from the time of man's creation in the image of God flower out into strange life, splendour, and fruitfulness. (T. G. Selby.) Parallel Verses KJV: And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.WEB: All your children shall be taught of Yahweh; and great shall be the peace of your children. |
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