Ecclesiasticus 60:22

Nova Vulgata

Minimus erit in mille, et parvulus in gentem fortem. Ego Dominus in tempore eius subito faciam istud.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Minimus erit in mille, et parvulus in gentem fortissimam. Ego Dominus, in tempore ejus subito faciam istud.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Minimus erit in mille,
et parvulus in gentem fortissimam.
Ego Dominus in tempore ejus
subito faciam istud.]

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

little: Isaiah 66:8, Daniel 2:35, Daniel 2:44, Matthew 13:31, Matthew 13:32, Acts 2:41, Acts 5:14, Revelation 7:9

I the Lord: Isaiah 5:19, Habakkuk 2:3, Luke 18:7, Hebrews 10:36, 2 Peter 3:8

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 32:35 - the things Ezra 3:12 - when the foundation Job 12:23 - increaseth Job 24:1 - seeing Psalms 72:7 - In his days Isaiah 27:6 - General Jeremiah 3:16 - when Jeremiah 30:19 - and I Micah 4:7 - I will Zechariah 10:10 - place Mark 4:31 - is less than Hebrews 10:37 - General 2 Peter 2:3 - whose

Gill's Notes on the Bible

A little one shall become a thousand,.... A small family, a little handful of people in all ages, scattered up and down in the world, of no esteem and account in it, being all gathered together, that ever were in the world, will appear to be thousands and millions, and such a number as no man can number, Revelation 7:9

and a small one a strong nation; a company of weak persons, persecuted by their enemies, and unable to resist them, as in the present state: now there will be a nation of them strong and mighty; the feeble among them shall be as David, and the house of David as God, as the Angel of the Lord, Zechariah 12:8:

I the Lord will hasten it in his time: as there was a fixed appointed time for Christ's first coming, so there is for his second coming, when this state and dispensation of things will commence; and when that time comes, it will be deferred no longer; as soon as ever it is up, the Lord will hasten the accomplishment of what he has promised, and who is able also to perform; see 1 Timothy 6:15.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A little one shall become a thousand - There shall be a great increase, as if one, and that the smallest, should be multiplied to a thousand. The idea is, that the people, then small in number, would be greatly increased by the accession of the Gentile world. Lowth and Noyes render this, ‘The little one.’ Grotius, ‘The least one.’ So the Septuagint, Ο ὀλιγιστὸς Ho oligistos.

I the Lord will hasten it in his time - Noyes, ‘Its time.’ Lowth ‘Due time.’ Septuagint, ‘I will do it in the proper time’ (κατα καιρὸν kata kairon). The sense is, that this would be done at the proper time - called, in Galatians 4:4, ‘the fullness of time.’ There was a proper season when this was to be accomplished. There were important preparations to be made before it could be done. The nations, under the divine arrangement, were to be put into a proper position to receive the Messiah. He was not to come until:

1. The experiment had been fairly made to show how weak and feeble man was without a rerelation - to show that philosophy, and learning, and the policy of statesmen, could do nothing effectual for the salvation of men.

2. He was not to come until the world should be at peace, and until there would be facilities for the rapid propagation of religion in all lands.

3. Or was he to come until all that had been said in prophecy should be fulfilled - until all the circumstances should combine, which had been foretold as favorable to the introduction of the reign of the Messiah. But when that period should arrive, then the Lord would ‘hasten’ it.

There would be no unnecessary delay; none which the circumstances of the case did not call for. So it will be in the universal spread of the gospel referred to in this chapter. When the world shall be moulded into a proper state to welcome it; when the nations are prepared to receive it and profit by it; then the universal propagation shall be hastened, and a nation shall be born in a day (see the notes at Isaiah 66:8). Meantime, for the coming of that day we should pray and labor. By the diffusion of truth: by schools; by the spread of the Bible; by preaching; by the translation of the Word of God into every language: by establishing the press in all the strong points of Pagan influence; by placing missionaries in all the holds of power in the pagan world; and by training up many to enter into the harvest, the Christian world should prepare for the universal conversion of the world to God. In due time it shall be hastened. and ‘he that shall come, will come, and will not tarry’ Hebrews 10:37.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 60:22. I the Lord will hasten it in his time — There is a time set for the fulfilment of this prophecy: that time must come before it begins to take place; but when it does begin, the whole will be performed in a short space. It is not, therefore, the time determined for the event that shall be hastened, but all the circumstances of the event; all the parts of the prediction shall be speedily completed. I the Lorde in hys tyme sodeynly schal doun thys. - Old MS. Bible. And because it is the LORD, therefore it will be done: for although it be difficult, he is almighty.