Isaiah 6:1
I saw — In a vision. The Lord — The Divine Majesty as he subsisteth in three persons. His train — His royal and judicial robe; for he is represented as a judge.... [ Continue Reading ]
I saw — In a vision. The Lord — The Divine Majesty as he subsisteth in three persons. His train — His royal and judicial robe; for he is represented as a judge.... [ Continue Reading ]
Stood — As ministers attending upon their Lord. Seraphim — An order of holy angels, thus called from fire and burning, which this word properly signifies; to represent either their nature, which is bright and glorious, subtile, and pure; or their property, of fervent zeal for God's service and glory... [ Continue Reading ]
Cried — Singing in consort. Holy — This is repeated thrice, to intimate the Trinity of persons united in the Divine essence. Glory — Of the effects and demonstrations of his glorious holiness, as well as of his power, wisdom, and goodness.... [ Continue Reading ]
The posts — Together with the door itself. Such violent motions were commonly tokens of God's anger. Smoak — Which elsewhere is a token of God's presence and acceptance, but here of his anger.... [ Continue Reading ]
l am — I am a great sinner, as many other ways, so particularly by my lips. I am an unclean branch of an unclean tree; besides my own uncleanness, I have both by my omissions and commissions involved myself in the guilt of their sins. Have seen — The sight of this glorious and holy God gives me caus... [ Continue Reading ]
Flew — By God's command. A coal — Both a token and an instrument of purification. The altar — Of burnt — offering.... [ Continue Reading ]
Laid it — So as only to touch my lips, and not to burn them; which God could easily effect. Lo — This is a sign that I have pardoned and purged the uncleanness of thy lips.... [ Continue Reading ]
Who — To deliver the following message. The change of the number, I and us, is very remarkable; and both being meant of one and the same Lord, do sufficiently intimate a plurality of persons in the Godhead.... [ Continue Reading ]
Perceive not — The Hebrew words are imperative; yet they are not to be taken as a command what the people ought to do, but only as a prediction what they would do. The sense is, because you have so long heard my words, and seen my works, to no purpose, and have hardened your hearts, and will not lea... [ Continue Reading ]
Fat — Stupid and senseless. This making of their hearts fat, is here ascribed to the prophet, as it is ascribed to God in the repetition of this prophecy, John 12:40, because God inflicted this judgment upon them by the ministry of the prophet, partly by way of prediction, foretelling that this woul... [ Continue Reading ]
Lord — An abrupt speech, arising from the prophet's great passion and astonishment: how long shall this dreadful judgment last? Until — Until this land be totally destroyed, first by the Babylonians, and afterward by the Romans.... [ Continue Reading ]
Removed — Hath caused this people to be carried away captive into far countries. A forsaking — 'Till houses and lands be generally forsaken of their owners.... [ Continue Reading ]
A tenth — A small remnant reserved, that number being put indefinitely. Return — Out of the Babylonish captivity, into their own land. Eaten — That remnant shall be devoured a second time, by the kings of Syria, and afterwards by the Romans. Yet — Yet there shall be another remnant, not such an one... [ Continue Reading ]