Theme: The magnetism of God's light

Exegetical Note
This postexilic poem of Third Isaiah anticipates a time in which, because of God's arrival in glory, Jerusalem will be so radiant that all nations will be drawn to its light, bearing not only the children that have stayed behind in the land of captivity, but treasures, such as gold and frankincense. This passage, together with the responsorial Psalm 72, was apparently one of Matthew's sources for his story of the Magi.

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