“The Lord GOD says: ‘I will also take some of the lofty top of the cedar, and will plant it. I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 22. Cedar. Of the Royal stock of David.—Twig. Jesus Christ, whom God hath planted in Mount Sion, that is, the high mountain of his Church, to which all nations flow. Challoner.—The Jews in vain apply this to Zorobabel or to the Machabees. Their power was never great enough to verify these expressions. Calmet.—But Christ has united in his Church all the birds, or those who have strength enough to raise themselves above earthly things. Saint Jerome Theod. and so forth—The kingdom of Sedecias and that of Nabuchodonosor prospered not, or was soon at an end: Christ remains for ever. Worthington.