Commentary on Today's Verse

　　Commentary on Isaiah 42:5-12

　　(Read Isaiah 42:5-12)

　　The work of redemption brings back man to the obedience he owes to God as his Maker. Christ is the light of the world. And by his grace he opens the understandings Satan has blinded, and sets at liberty from the bondage of sin. The Lord has supported his church. And now he makes new promises, which shall as certainly be fulfilled as the old ones were. When the Gentiles are brought into the church, he is glorified in them and by them. Let us give to God those things which are his, taking heed that we do not serve the creature more than the Creator.

　　Isaiah 42:8 In-Context

　　6 "I, the Lord, have called you in righteousness; I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people and a light for the Gentiles,

　　7 to open eyes that are blind, to free captives from prison and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness.

　　8 "I am the Lord; that is my name! I will not yield my glory to another or my praise to idols.

　　9 See, the former things have taken place, and new things I declare; before they spring into being I announce them to you."

　　10 Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise from the ends of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, you islands, and all who live in them.