Isaiah 25:8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces… How can those who are in the mountain banquet house be happy while death is ravaging down below? The Lord says in reference to that, that He "will swallow up death in victory." We must not amend that expression — "swallow up." There is a sound in it which is equal to an annotation. We hear a splash in the infinite Atlantic, and the thing that is sunk has gone forever. It was but a stone. Death is to be not mitigated, relieved, thrown into perspective which the mind can gaze upon without agony; it is to be swallowed up. Let it go! Death has no friends. (J. Parker, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it. |
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