![]() So it was in the Gentile world, before the Gospel was brought into it, Acts 17:30 and so it now is in those places where the seven churches of Asia were and in all Asia, which once heard the word of the Lord, even all that large country and now it is not heard at all in it, but covered with Mahometan darkness. This was the case in the latter end of Eli's life, 1 Samuel 3:1 in Asa's times, and before, 2 Chronicles 15:3 in the Babylonish captivity, Ezekiel 7:26 in the times of Antiochus, Psalm 74:9 when John the Baptist and Christ first came preaching the word, Matthew 9:36 and now is the case of the Jews, and will be till the time of their conversion. ![]() ![]() That is, "no prophecy", as the Vulgate Latin version renders it and which is often the sense of the word, as the vision of Isaiah is the prophecy of Isaiah and, in the New Testament, prophesying is often put for preaching and here vision, or prophecy, signifies the public ministering of the word and ordinances, and want of persons to administer them no expounder, as the Septuagint version or interpreter, as the Arabic. ![]() Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleWhere there is no vision, the people perish. ![]()
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