How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, and that preacheth peace: of him that sheweth forth good, that preacheth salvation, that saith to Sion: Thy God shall reign!
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
beautiful . . . feet--that is, The advent of such a herald seen on the distant "mountains" (see on Isa 40:9; Isa 41:27; Isa 25:6-7; Sol 2:17) running in haste with the long-expected good tidings, is most grateful to the desolated city (Nah 1:15). good tidings--only partially applying to the return from Babylon. Fully, and antitypically, the Gospel (Luk 2:10-11), "beginning at Jerusalem" (Luk 24:17), "the city of the great King" (Mat 5:35), where Messiah shall, at the final restoration of Israel, "reign" as peculiarly Zion's God ("Thy God reigneth"; compare Psa 2:6).
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