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Verse Isaiah 58:7. _DEAL THY BREAD TO THE HUNGRY_] But this thou
canst not do, if thou eat it _thyself_. When a man fasts, suppose he
do it through a religious motive, he should give the food of that...
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IS IT NOT TO DEAL THY BREAD TO THE HUNGRY? - The word renderd
‘deal’ (פרס _pâras_), means to divide, to distribute. The
idea is, that we are to apportion among the poor that which will be
needful for...
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3. JEWISH HISTORY IN THE END TIME: THEIR FUTURE GLORY AND THE GLORY OF
THE COMING AGE (58-59)
This third and last section of the vision of Isaiah can only be
understood and appreciated if it is studie...
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FASTING, FALSE AND TRUE. Yahweh bids the prophet explain to His people
wherein their sin lies. Daily they attend the Temple, seeking to know
His will for all the world as though their one aim were to...
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TO DEAL. to break. The technical term for giving or partaking of food,
as in Luke 24:30; Luke 24:35.Acts 2:42; Acts 2:46;...
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Comp. Ezekiel 18:7 f., Ezekiel 18:16 f.; Job 31:13 ff.
_the poor that are cast out_ THE VAGRANT (homeless) POOR. The word
rendered "vagrant" is peculiar, but is supposed to come from a verb
meaning "w...
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Description of the true fast in which Jehovah delights. The duties
enjoined fall under two heads: (1) abstinence from every form of
oppression (Isaiah 58:6), and (2) the exercise of positive beneficen...
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DISCOURSE: 993
THE SERVICES WHICH GOD REQUIRES
Isaiah 58:5. Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to
afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to
spread sackcloth...
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2. HOLINESS
TEXT: Isaiah 58:6-12
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Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of
wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go
free, and that ye break ever...
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Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the
poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that
thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own f...
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58:7 needy (e-19) Or 'afflicted.'...
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2. DID RIGHTEOUSNESS] i.e. kept the law. They are ready enough for the
external requirements of religion....
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 58
WRONG PRACTICE OF RELIGION
V1 (This is what God says.) ‘Shout loudly...
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To take care of poor and weak people in society is to practise
*self-denial. This what the *Lord calls a true *fast.
• The *Lord approves of those who take care of other people in this
way. They will...
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TO DEAL THY BREAD. — Literally, _to break bread,_ as in the familiar
phrase of the New Testament (Matthew 26:26; Acts 20:11; Acts 27:34).
The bread of the Jews seems to have been made always in the th...
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הֲ לֹ֨וא פָרֹ֤ס לָֽ † רָעֵב֙
לַחְמֶ֔ךָ...
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CHAPTER XXIII
THE REKINDLING OF THE CIVIC CONSCIENCE
Isaiah 56:9; Isaiah 57:1; Isaiah 58:1; Isaiah 59:1
IT was inevitable, as so
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THE FAST THAT GOD HAS CHOSEN
Isaiah 58:1-14
The divorce between outward rites and inward piety has been the curse
of every age. When the Pharisees were plotting our Lord's death, they
refused to ent...
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We now commence the last division of the book, which deals with the
program of peace as it sets forth the conditions, describes the
ultimate realization, and insists on a principle of discrimination....
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[Is it] not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou shouldest
bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the
naked, that thou shouldest cover him; and that thou shouldest no...
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Observe how possible it is to have a fondness for ordinances, but to
be void of a spirit of grace in them. Outward observances are easily
followed; but heart-renewing, heart-felt sorrow for sin, consi...
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7._Is it not to break thy bread to the hungry? _He goes on to describe
the duties of love of our neighbor, which he had described briefly in
the preceding verse; for, having formerly said that we must...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 58 AND 59.
But these moral considerations rouse the indignation of the Spirit at
the condition of Israel in the days of the prophecy-their sin and
their hypoc...
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IS IT NOT TO DEAL THY BREAD TO THE HUNGRY?.... Or "to break" f it,
divide it, and communicate it to them; that which is "bread", food fit
to eat, wholesome and nourishing; which is thine, and not anot...
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Isaiah 58:7 _[Is it] not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that
thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest
the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thysel...
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_Is it not_ Namely, the fast that pleases me. Having shown the evil
they were to abstain from in order to keep an acceptable fast, namely,
every species of cruelty, he here proceeds to speak of the du...
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Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, to share it with him who is
in need, AND THAT THOU BRING THE POOR THAT ARE CAST OUT, those without
a home, without a roof to call their own, TO THY HOUSE; WH...
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A SHARP REPROOF OF HYPOCRISY...
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CAST OUT:
Or, afflicted...
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3-12 A fast is a day to afflict the soul; if it does not express true
sorrow for sin, and does not promote the putting away of sin, it is
not a fast. These professors had shown sorrow on stated or oc...
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IS IT, viz. the fast that pleaseth me, supplied from the former verse.
Having showed the evil they are to abstain from in order to an
acceptable fast, viz. _cruelty_, he here speaks of the duty that i...
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Isaiah 58:7 share H6536 (H8800) bread H3899 hungry H7457 bring H935
(H8686) house H1004 poor H6041 out...
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THE CALL TO COVENANT RIGHTEOUSNESS (ISAIAH 58:6).
Isaiah 58:6
“Is not this the fast that I have chosen,
To loose the bonds of wickedness,
To undo the bands of the yoke,
And to let the oppressed g...
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Isaiah 58:6
This passage is one of those in which the purity and holiness peculiar
to the Gospel seem to be foretokened in the morality of the prophetic
canon. Isaiah has been termed the Evangelical P...
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Isaiah 58:3
I. The Hebrew prophet's deliverance here is not in condemnation or
disparagement of all fasting. The people of his day were in the habit,
it appears, of denying themselves food, and assumi...
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Isaiah 58:1. _Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet
and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their
sins._
See, friends, how stolid men are by nature. God's mess...
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Isaiah 58:1. _Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet,
and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their
sins. Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways as...
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CONTENTS: Hypocritical professions of religion. Instructions how to
keep fasts aright.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: It is common for unhumbled hearts, while they perform the
external services of rel...
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Isaiah 58:1. _Cry aloud, spare not; lift up thy voice like a trumpet._
It is not doubted by the Jews, nor by St. Jerome, that Isaiah lived to
the beginning of Manasseh's idolatrous reign; nor that he...
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_Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry?_
ALMSGIVING
Why there are so many evils in the world is a question that has been
agitated ever since man felt them. It becomes not us, with too
presumptuou...
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_Is not this the fast that I have chosen?_
PRACTICAL FASTING
In reply to the question, how the acts here mentioned could be
described as fasting, J. D. Michaelis says that they are all to be
conside...
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_Is it such a fast that I have chosen?_
THE FAST WHICH GOD HAS CHOSEN
I. GOD’S PURPOSE IN COMMANDING MEN TO FAST.
1. To lead us to prayer (Isaiah 58:4), prayer so real that our voices
are “heard on...
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_Wherefore have we fasted?_
FASTS
Fasts were a common feature of the old Israelitish religion (1Ki 21:9;
1 Kings 21:12; Jeremiah 36:9). In Zechariah 8:19 we learn expressly
that during the exile four...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 58:6 God defines the kind of spiritual
faithfulness that brings his blessing (compare Isaiah 1:17; James
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A PLEA FOR THE DISTRESSED
Isaiah 58:6. _Is not this the fast that I have chosen? &c._
In the former verses of this chapter we have a description of the
state of heart of the Jewish people in the cour...
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SECTION VI. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS AND WARNINGS, FOLLOWED BY A
CONFESSION AND A PROMISE (Isaiah 58:1; Isaiah 59:1.).
EXPOSIT
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Cry aloud, spare not (Isaiah 58:1),
The Lord is commanding now the prophet Isaiah.
lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their
transgressions, and the house of Jacob their sins. Yet t...
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1 John 3:17; 1 John 3:18; 1 Timothy 5:10; 2 Chronicles 28:15;...
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Cast out — And thereby become wanderers, having no abiding place. To
thy house — That thou be hospitable, and make thy house a shelter to
them that have none of their own left. Hide not — That seek no...