Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 25:7
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Isaiah25:7
7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.
Which is put either, 1. for the Covering of the Face, by an Hypallage, as silver of shekels is put for shekels of silver, Levit. 5. 15. or, 2. for the Covering or vail, as the next Clause expounds it, the Word face being oft superfluously used in the Hebrew Language, as Gen. 1. 2, 29. and elsewhere.
The Vail of Ignorance of God, and of the True Religion, which then was upon the Gentiles, and now is upon the Jews, 2 Cor. 3. 14, 15, 16. which, like a Vail, covers Mens Eyes, and keeps them from discerning between things that differ. It may be also an Allusion either to the Vail which was put upon Moses his Face, Exod. 34. 33, 34. or to the Vail of the Sanctuary, by which the persons without it were kept from the sight of the Ark. This is a manifest Prophecy concerning the Illumination and Conversion of the Gentiles.
Marginal references: Heb. swallow up.; Heb. covered.
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