In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Ver. 1. _In the year that Uzziah died._] This was 1590 years from Noah's flood, say chronologers, where one _a_ well observeth how divers things were done in this year w... [ Continue Reading ]
Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. Ver. 2. _Above it stood the seraphims._] Those heavenly salamanders that are all on a light fire with love to God and zeal of his glory. Num 21:6 Isa... [ Continue Reading ]
And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, [is] the LORD of hosts: the whole earth [is] full of his glory. Ver. 3. _And one cried to another._] _Hymnum cantant_ τρισαγιον, and that, as it may seem, by way of antiphony, as those did. Exodus 15:1 _; _ Exo 15:21 _ And said, Holy, holy, ho... [ Continue Reading ]
And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. Ver. 4. _And the posts of the door were moved._] Presently upon the angels' hymn this occured, with such a force it was uttered, as it was at the time of our Saviour's resurrection, when the angel r... [ Continue Reading ]
Then said I, Woe [is] me! for I am undone; because I [am] a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. Ver. 5. _Then said I, Woe is me._] The ordinary fear of the faithful, when they had seen the Lord in his majest... [ Continue Reading ]
Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, [which] he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: Ver. 6. _Then flew one of the seraphims unto me._] _Relinquit chorum illum sanctissimum ut serviat polluto; _ He leaveth that holy company that he may do service to a poor... [ Continue Reading ]
And he laid [it] upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. Ver. 7. _And he laid it upon my mouth._] Not to burn him, for all this was visional, but to expiate and purify his lips by the "spirit of judgment and of burning"; Isa 4:4... [ Continue Reading ]
Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here [am] I; send me. Ver. 8. _Whom shall I send?_] "Lay hands upon no man rashly," but with deliberation. The mystery of the Trinity is well observed by some in the following words, as by others thi... [ Continue Reading ]
And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. Ver. 9. _And he said, Go and tell this people._] _a_ Once my people, but now no more so, Loammi, but a people laden with iniquity, and so a people of my wrath and of my curse, no longer o... [ Continue Reading ]
_Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed._ Ver. 10. _Make the heart of this people fat,_] _sc., _ By preaching to them the Word of God, whi... [ Continue Reading ]
_Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,_ Ver. 11. _Then said I, Lord, how long?_] _sc., _ Shall this sad stroke upon the souls of this poor people last? Is there no hope of an end? Ha... [ Continue Reading ]
And the LORD have removed men far away, and [there be] a great forsaking in the midst of the land. Ver. 12. _And the Lord have removed men far away._] Judea lay utterly waste for seventy years, insomuch that after the slaughter of Gedaliah, when all - man, woman, and child - fled into Egypt, there... [ Continue Reading ]
But yet in it [shall be] a tenth, and [it] shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance [is] in them, when they cast [their leaves: so] the holy seed [shall be] the substance thereof. Ver. 13. _But yet in it shall be a tenth,_] _a_ _i.e., _ Some elect left in the... [ Continue Reading ]