Wesley Corpus

Your fathers - Who died there, and never entered Canaan. I will cause - I will bring you out by number, so that you shall either own my scepter, or by a conquered subjection, yield to my sword and power. Under the rod - Referring to the manner of shepherds in that country, who did tell their sheep in, and out of the fold. Bring you - The voluntary and obedient into covenant with myself. The rebels - The stubborn sinners. But pollute - But while ye are such idolaters, forbear to take my name into your lips. Mine holy mountain - Sion, God's holy hill, Psa 2:6. Holy by designation, and God's own appointing it for his temple and presence. Of the height - Sion, tho' lower than many other hills, yet was above them all for God's peculiar presence. In the land - Their own land. Your offerings - When I have brought you into the land, then I will require your offerings as formerly: you shall see my temple built, Jerusalem filled with inhabitants, and my worship restored. Sanctified - Magnified and praised for the good I do to my people. Remember - Review your former ways with sorrow: remember, and grieve. The south - Look toward Jerusalem, and the land of Canaan. Drop thy word - Let thy word distil, begin with softer words, before thou shower down with the vehemency of a storm. The forest - Jerusalem, which was become like a forest. Every green tree - All that flourish, and all that are poor. All faces - All persons and orders of men, from one end of the land to the other. Parables - So absolutely, that we cannot understand him.