So Kimchi interprets it, "to know him" that is, to serve him first know him, then serve him his going forth is prepared as the morning The words may be considered as a continuation of their exhortation to one another from ( Hosea 6:1 ) thus, "and let us acknowledge, let us follow on to know him" F21 let us own him as the true Messiah, whom we and our fathers have rejected and let us make use of all means to gain more knowledge of him: or let us follow after him, to serve and obey him, which is the practical knowledge of him let us imitate him, and follow him the Lamb of God, embrace his Gospel, and submit to his ordinances.
The Jews, when they are quickened, and turn to the Lord, will know him, own and acknowledge him, as the Messiah, the only Redeemer and Saviour and will be so delighted with the knowledge of him, that they will be desirous of, and seek after, a larger measure of it and indeed they shall all know him, from the least to the greatest, when the covenant of grace shall be renewed with them, manifested and applied to them. The word "if" is not in the original text, and the passage is not conditional, but absolute for as persons, when converted, know Christ, and not before, when he is revealed to them, and in them, as the only Saviour and Redeemer, so they continue and increase in the knowledge of him they earnestly desire to know more of him, and eagerly pursue those means and methods by which they attain to a greater degree of it for so the words are, "and we shall know, we shall follow on to know the Lord" F20 that grace, which has given the first measure of spiritual and experimental knowledge of him, will influence and engage them to seek after more. Then shall we know, we follow on to know the Lord
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