Isaiah 32:17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. The first bugle-peal proclaims not the advent of peace but the enthronement of right! The herald withholds the word "peace" until "righteousness" is established. "Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness!" That is the voice of the first trumpet, and it is only when certain great redemptions have been wrought, certain perversities corrected, certain degraded monarchies restored, certain pure and muscular dispositions recovered, that we hear the sound of the second trumpet, "And the work of righteousness shall be peace," &c. That is the expression of the spiritual order as contained in the teaching of the Divine Word. (J. H. Jowett, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. |
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