xxxv. 8-10. _And an highway shall be there, &c._
The chapter of which these words are a part testifies of Christ. The
prophet, while foretelling it in the return of the Jews from their
captivity in Babylon, is enabled to look forward to a more spiritual
and much greater deliverance. With the eye of faith he sees the
kingdom of the Messiah established in the earth, and beholds Him open
a new and blessed road by which a multitude of the enslaved and
perishing escape from their miseries and are led to His kingdom. This
prophecy calls upon us to consider--1. The travellers of whom it
speaks; 2. The way along which they are journeying; 3. The home to
which it is leading them.--_Charles Bradley: Sermons,_ vol. ii. pp.
127, 128.
Whatever primary reference this prophecy might have to the return of
the tribes from captivity, it is evident that all its interesting and
beautiful descriptions can only be fully realised in the blessedness
and glory of the Gospel dispensation. Consider it as spiritually
referring to the Gospel way of salvation.