The Pulpit Commentary on Isaiah 49:6

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A Light to the Gentiles.

"It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my Servant, etc." How distinctly this prophesies concerning Christ!—

I. IN RELATION TO THE TRUE GLORY OF HIS KINGDOM. Not to exalt Jacob, or to preserve Israel, but to be a Light to the Gentiles.

II. IN RELATION TO THE HISTORY OF HIS MINISTRY. Why did the Jewish nation despise and crucify the Redeemer? It would have been a light thing to serve in such a cause as that which ministered to their glory by restoring their prestige and preeminence; but it was "heavy as the cross" to save the world.—W.M.S.

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