5. And of Zion, it shall be said, This and that man was born in her. Not as nations only, but one by one, as individuals, the citizens of
the New Jerusalem will be counted, and their names publicly declared. The
individual will not be lost in the mass, but each one will be of high account.
The original, by using the noblest word for man, intimates that many remarkable
men will be born in the church, and indeed everyone who is renewed in the image
of Christ is an eminent personage, while there are some who, even to the dim
eyes of the world, shine with a luster of character which cannot but be
admitted to be unusual and admirable. And the highest himself shall
establish her. When the numbers of the faithful are increased by the new
birth, the Lord proves himself to be higher than all those who are against us.
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