---
title: "The Church Pulpit Commentary -  Isaiah 61"
description: "THE EDICT OF EMANCIPATION ‘To proclaim liberty to the captives.’  Isaiah 61:1  It is a blessed name of Jesus, and as true as it is blessed—the Liberator."
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url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/the-church-pulpit-commentary/isaiah/61"
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*THE EDICT OF EMANCIPATION*
**‘To proclaim liberty to the captives.’**
** [Isaiah 61:1](../../../kjv/isaiah/61/1)**
** It is a blessed name of Jesus, and as true as it is blessed—the Liberator.
**I. As in Him there was no sin, He never indeed could know the worst of all bondage—the bondage of the spirit to the flesh**.
**II. And all Christ did, and all Christ was, upon this earth—His whole mission—was essentially either to teach or to give liberty.**—His preaching was, for the most part, to change the constraint of law into the largeness of love.
**III. When Christ burst through all the tombs**—the moral tombs and the physical tombs in which we all lay buried—and when He went out into life and glory, He was not Himself alone; He was at that moment the covenanted Head of a mystical body, and all that body rose with Him.

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