Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Isaiah 33:17
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Isaiah33:17
17. Thine--the saints'.
king in ... beauty--not as now, Hezekiah in sackcloth, oppressed by the enemy, but King Messiah (Is 32:1) "in His beauty" (So 5:10, 16; Re 4:3).
land ... very far off--rather, "the land in its remotest extent" (no longer pent up as Hezekiah was with the siege); see Margin. For Jerusalem is made the scene of the king's glory (Is 33:20, &c.), and it could not be said to be "very far off," unless the far-off land be heaven, the Jerusalem above, which is to follow the earthly reign of Messiah at literal Jerusalem (Is 65:17-19; Jr 3:17; Re 21:1, 2, 10).
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