Chapter 66 – FAMILIA MUNDIAL
1 [4-5] Worship which is merely external is as evil as though it were idolatry.
2 [7-9] The absence of labor in Zion’s childbearing is a symbol of the joyful begetting of the new people of God.
3 [18-21] God summons the neighboring nations to Zion and from among them will send some to far distant lands to proclaim his glory. All your brethren: Jews in exile.
4 [24] God’s enemies lie dead outside the walls of the New Jerusalem; just as in the past, corpses, filth and refuse lay in the Valley of Hinnom outside the city, where huge fires were constantly burning; cf ⇒ Joshua 15:8; ⇒ 2 Chron 28:3; ⇒ Mark 9:45-48.