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Pentecost Season · All Saints · Year B

Wisdom 3:1-9 or Isaiah 25:6-9

The Feast on the Mountain / Death Swallowed Up

November 1, 2027

The Last Judgement, Fra Angelico
The Last Judgement, Fra Angelico, c. 1425–1430Museo di San Marco, Florence
A panel with the open graves running down the centre, the saved dancing in a garden on the left and the damned driven down on the right, painted with equal care.The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God: these readings are about where people end up, and the panel is divided down the middle on exactly that.Fra AngelicoA Dominican friar who painted, canonised in 1982, whose work was made for the cells and corridors his brothers lived in.Museo di San Marco, FlorenceThe Dominican friary where Fra Angelico painted a fresco in every cell, left in place, so the pictures are still in the rooms they were made for.Museo di San Marco, Florence
Revised Common Lectionary
GospelJohn 11:32-44Jn 11:32-44
EpistleRev. 21:1-6aRev 21:1-6a
Old TestamentWis. 3:1-9Wis 3:1-9 orIsa. 25:6-9Is 25:6-9
PsalterPs. 24Ps 24

Overview & Insights

"He will swallow up death forever, and the Lord God will wipe away the tears from all faces." (Isaiah 25:8)

Isaiah pictures the Lord preparing a rich feast for all peoples on his mountain, destroying the shroud of death, swallowing up death forever, and wiping away every tear so his people rejoice in his salvation.

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Take it further: Wisdom 3:1-9 or Isaiah 25:6-9

Commentary

Working Preacher: Commentary on Isaiah 25:6-9Working Preacher: Commentary on Is 25:6-9 Working Preacher

Lutheran lectionary commentary on the mountain feast and the end of death for All Saints.

Enduring Word: Isaiah 25Enduring Word: Is 25 Enduring Word · David Guzik

David Guzik's verse-by-verse evangelical notes on the feast and the swallowing up of death.

Precept Austin: Isaiah CommentariesPrecept Austin: Is Commentaries Precept Austin

Collected verse-by-verse resources and commentators for the book of Isaiah.

BibleHub: Commentaries on Isaiah 25:6BibleHub: Commentaries on Is 25:6 BibleHub

Parallel classic commentaries keyed to the feast of rich food on the mountain.

CEP: Isaiah 25:6-9 CommentaryCEP: Is 25:6-9 Commentary Center for Excellence in Preaching

Reformed preaching commentary on death swallowed up and the banquet of hope.

Background & Word Study

Sefaria: Isaiah 25 (Hebrew)Sefaria: Is 25 (Hebrew) Sefaria

Hebrew text with English and classical Jewish commentary on the chapter.

BibleHub: Isaiah 25 InterlinearBibleHub: Is 25 Interlinear BibleHub

Hebrew-English interlinear for word-level study of Isaiah 25.

The Church Fathers

Catena: Isaiah 25Catena: Is 25 Catena

Patristic comments gathered verse by verse on Isaiah 25.

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