Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 4. The burnt-offerings that the prince shall offer] The chief magistrate was always obliged to attend the public worship of God, as well as the priest, to show that the civil and ecclesiastical states were both under the same government of the Lord; and that no one was capable of being prince or priest, who did not acknowledge God in all his ways. It is no wonder that those lands mourn, where neither the established priest nor the civil magistrate either fear or love God. Ungodly priests and profligate magistrates are a curse to any land. In no country have I found both so exemplary for uprightness, as in Britain.
Matthew Henry Commentary
- In the period here foretold, the worship and the ministers of God wil be provided for; the princes will rule with justice, as holding their power under Christ; the people will live in peace, ease, and godliness These things seem to be represented in language taken from the custom of the times in which the prophet wrote. Christ is our Passover that is sacrificed for us: we celebrate the memorial of that sacrifice, an feast upon it, triumphing in our deliverance out of the Egyptia slavery of sin, and our preservation from the destroying sword of Divine justice, in the Lord's supper, which is our passover feast; a the whole Christian life is, and must be, the feast of the unleavene bread of sincerity and truth _________________________________________________
Original Hebrew והעלה5930 אשׁר834 יקרב7126 הנשׂיא5387 ליהוה3068 ביום3117 השׁבת7676 שׁשׁה8337 כבשׂים3532 תמימם8549 ואיל352 תמים׃8549
