Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 2:22
Cease ye — Never admire or place your trust in man. Breath — Whose breath is quickly stopped and taken away. Wherein — What excellency is in him, considered in himself, and without dependence on God?
Cease ye — Never admire or place your trust in man. Breath — Whose breath is quickly stopped and taken away. Wherein — What excellency is in him, considered in himself, and without dependence on God?
Verse Isaiah 2:22. _CEASE YE FROM MAN_] Trust neither in him, nor in the gods that he has invented. Neither he, nor they, can either save or destroy....
CEASE YE FROM MAN - That is, cease to confide in or trust in him. The prophet had just said Isaiah 2:11, Isaiah 2:17 that the proud and lofty people would be brought low; that is, the kings, princes,...
CHAPTER 2 Zion's Future Glory and the Day of Jehovah 1. _The glories in the latter days (Isaiah 2:1)_ 2. _Exhortation to walk in the light (Isaiah 2:5)_ 3. _The corruption of the people (Isaiah 2:6)_...
THE DAY OF YAHWEH. A poem dating from Isaiah's earliest period, dealing first with the sin, then with the judgment, of Israel. The text has been badly preserved. Probably the refrain which we find in...
CEASE YE. Let go. BREATH, &C. Hebrew. _neshamah_ (App-16). Occurs twice in the "former" portion (Isaiah 2:22; Isaiah 30:33) and twice in the "latter "portion (Isaiah 42:5;...
CEASE YE FROM MAN— The prophet here subjoins an admonitory exhortation to the men of his own and of all times, to dissuade them from placing any confidence in man, however excellent in dignity, or gre...
b. LOSS OF DIGNITY TEXT: Isaiah 2:10-22 10 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty. 11 The lofty looks of man shall be...
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of? CEASE YE FROM MAN The high ones (; ) on whom the people trust, shall be 'brought low' (); therefore "cease...
2:22 man, (d-4) The _ Adam_ , 'mankind,' as ch. 6.12, 'men.'...
2-4. occur also with a few slight variations in Micah 4:1. The passage appears to be borrowed in Isaiah, because (_a_) it suits its context better in Micah, and (_b_) it is more complete in Micah, Mic...
Wanting in LXX, and perhaps a gloss. ISAIAH'S PREACHING EARLY IN THE REIGN OF AHAZ Isaiah 2-4 are closely connected, and Isaiah 5 is generally thought to belong to the same period, though it probably...
The only sure *foundation for any human life is God himself. JERUSALEM ~ at the time of David and Solomon, the capital of the country called Israel. During the time of Isaiah, Jerusalem was the capit...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS ISAIAH DECLARES HOW GOD’S PEOPLE SHOULD BE LIVING ISAIAH CHAPTER S 1 TO 9 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 2 GOD’S IDEAL PLAN FOR ISRAEL V1 A special message about Jud...
CEASE YE FROM MAN... — The verse is wanting in some MSS. of the LXX. version, and is rejected by some critics, as of the nature of a marginal comment, and as not in harmony with the context. The first...
חִדְל֤וּ לָכֶם֙ מִן ־הָ֣ אָדָ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר נְשָׁ
CHAPTER II THE THREE JERUSALEMS 740-735 B.C. Isaiah 2:1; Isaiah 3:1; Isaiah 4:1 AFTER the general introduction, in chapter 1, to the prophecies of Isaiah, there comes another portion of the book, o...
AN EXHORTATION TO HUMILITY AND REVERENCE Isaiah 2:12-22; Isaiah 3:1-12 If men will not repent, they must suffer. If they will not voluntarily put away their idols and sorceries, they will be compelle...
Following this broad statement of the case between Jehovah and His people, we have the prophet's great appeal to them. The first part constitutes a vision of the latter days, that condition toward whi...
Cease ye from man, whose (y) breath [is] in his nostrils: for why is he to be esteemed? (y) Cast off your vain confidence in man, whose life is so frail that if his nose is stopped he is dead and con...
High. Adhere to Jesus Christ. (Origen) (Menochius) --- Septuagint omit this sentence, and St. Jerome thinks they did it perhaps for fear of shocking their brethren. In Jeremias xvii. --- It is supplie...
What a beautiful and striking close is made in this verse to all that went before. If man be nothing, yea worse than nothing, so full of terror, and so exposed to fear, who would put any confidence in...
22_Cease therefore from man _These words are clearly connected with what goes before, and have been improperly separated from them by some interpreters. For Isaiah, after having addressed the ungodly...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 2, 3, AND 4. Thus re-established, Zion, the mountain of Jehovah, will be the centre of blessing and peace to all the nations (Isaiah 2:1-4). This puts the inv...
CEASE YE FROM MAN, WHOSE BREATH [IS] IN HIS NOSTRILS,.... "From that man" y, meaning antichrist, the man of sin; who is but a mere man, a poor, frail, mortal man; though he sits in the temple of God,...
Cease ye from man, whose breath [is] in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of? Ver. 22. _Cease ye from man._] Man or means, human helps and creature comforts; think not that these can se...
_Cease ye from man_ “The prophet here subjoins an admonitory exhortation to the men of his own and of all times, to dissuade them from placing any confidence in man, however excellent in dignity, or g...
THE MAJESTY OF GOD IN HIS FINAL REVELATION...
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils, all men are admonished not to place their trust in man, weak and powerless as he is in all that he undertakes, dependent upon a breath which quickly...
10-22 The taking of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans seems first meant here, when idolatry among the Jews was done away; but our thoughts are led forward to the destruction of all the enemies of Christ. It...
Seeing God will undoubtedly bring down the highest and proudest of the sons of men into so much contempt and misery, from henceforth never admire nor place your trust in man, whose breath, upon which...
Isaiah 2:22 Sever H2308 (H8798) man H120 breath H5397 nostrils H639 account H2803 (H8737) Cease -...
THE TERRIBLE VISION (ISAIAH 2:10). This vision is in direct contrast with the Glorious Vision of Isaiah 2:2. On the one hand glory, now, on the other, judgment. Here we have a picture of the destiny...
THE AWFUL SITUATION OF HIS PEOPLE BEFORE YAHWEH AND ITS FUTURE CONSEQUENCES (ISAIAH 2:6). In contrast with the glorious vision that we have just seen, of Yahweh's triumph and people flocking to God,...
Isaiah 2:6. _Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children...
Isaiah 2:1. _The word that Isaiah the son of Amos saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top...
CONTENTS: The coming glory of Jerusalem and Israel. The humbling of the haughty and the shame of sinners in that day. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: In view of the terribleness of that day whe...
Isaiah 2:1. _The word that Isaiah saw._ In these distressing times, when the Jewish church and state were shaken to the very centre, the Messiah spoke to the prophet, and showed him the new-testament...
_Cease ye from man._ The Septuagint omits this verse. (_R. V. margin._) MAN’S INSIGNIFICANCE AND GOD’S SUPREMACY Two things are indispensable to undisturbed tranquillity of mind, namely, humble and...
A TERRIBLE PICTURE Isaiah 2:6 _Here_ is the “word” (vision) which Isaiah “saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem” (Isaiah 2:1). The prophet has been enraptured by the wondrous prospect of the distant fut...
MAN’S INSIGNIFICANCE AND GOD’S SUPREMACY Isaiah 2:22. _Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?_ In this verse the whole Bible is summed up. The foll...
SECTION II. DENUNCIATION OF GOD'S JUDGMENTS UPON HIS PEOPLE (CH. 2-5.). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 2:1 TITLE OF THE CHAPTER. It is gener
Now chapter 2 is introduced again. The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem (Isaiah 2:1). And now God takes him off to the future. And it shall come to pass in the las...
Genesis 2:7; Genesis 7:22; Jeremiah 17:5; Job 27:3; Job 7:15;...
CHRIST IN ISAIAH Isaiah 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS When Isaiah saw Christ in this chapter he saw Him in His Second Advent glory. Peter, in the Spirit, wrote of how the Prophets foretold the sufferings...