Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 6:7
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.
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.
AND HE LAID IT UPON MY MOUTH - Margin, ‘And he caused it to touch my mouth.’ This is the more correct rendering. It was a slight, momentary touch, sufficient merely to be a “sign or token” that he was...
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INIQUITY. Hebrew. _'avah,_ App-44. PURGED. covered. Hebrew. _kaphar_. to cover, and thus, here, atone. See note on Exodus 29:33. Not the same word as in Isaiah 1:25; Isaiah 4:4....
The ceremony of purification is in many respects unique, and seems to involve several ideas: (1) It shews that contact with the fire of the divine holiness is not necessarily destructive even to man....
_and thine iniquity … purged_ AND THY GUILT PASSES AWAY AND THY SIN IS ATONED FOR. The last word is the technical term for the expiatory effect of the sacrificial ritual....
DISCOURSE: 866 ISAIAH’S VISION OF CHRIST Isaiah 6:5. 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 ha...
THEN SAID I, &C.— The second part of this vision contains the sanctification of the prophet for the undertaking of a great prophetical office, and consists of two parts: the first describes the prophe...
b. THE GRACE TEXT: Isaiah 6:5-7 5 Then I said, 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...
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. HE LAIN (IT) UPON MY MOUTH, AND SAID, LO, THIS HATH TOUCHED THY LIPS -...
THE PROPHET'S CALL This c., which recounts the prophet's call and commission, would stand first in a chronological arrangement of the book. The opening words remind us of the vision of Micaiah (1 King...
But God has work for Isaiah to do. The action of a *fiery *angel convinces Isaiah that God has forgiven him. So Isaiah is now able to do what God asks. GOD’S HARD TASK FOR ISAIAH V8 Then I heard th...
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AND HE LAID IT UPON MY MOUTH. — So Jehovah “touched the mouth” of Isaiah’s great successor (Jeremiah 1:9); but not in that case with a “coal from the altar.” That prophet, like Moses (Exodus 4:10), ha...
וַ יַּגַּ֣ע עַל ־פִּ֔י וַ יֹּ֕אמֶר הִנֵּ֛ה
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And he laid [it] upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thy iniquity is taken away, and thy (n) sin purged. (n) This declares that man cannot render due obedience to God, till h...
_Sin. Impediment in speech. All defects were attributed to some sin, (John ix. 2.) as Job's friends maintained._...
Reader! do remark with me, the infinite grace of the Lord! see how, amidst all the sanctities of heaven, the case of a poor sinner upon earth was taken notice of, and provided for. Depend upon it, the...
7._And applying it to my mouth. _(94) We see how God condescends to meet the weakness of human sense. He puts _the tongs _into the hand of a seraph, that by means of it he may take _a coal from the al...
But it was in the counsels of God that His presence should be established in glory in the midst of His people, and this will be accomplished in Christ at the end of the age. Hence the testimony of the...
AND HE LAID [IT] UPON MY MOUTH,.... Because he had complained of the impurity of his lips, and that his mouth might take in by faith this comfortable doctrine of pardon, and it might be filled with pr...
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...
_Then flew one of the seraphim unto me_ By God's command; _having a live coal in his hand_ Both a token and an instrument of purification, as the next verse explains it; _which he had taken with the t...
and he laid it upon my mouth, he caused the glowing coal to come into contact with the prophet's lips, AND SAID, LO, THIS HATH TOUCHED THY LIPS; AND THINE INIQUITY IS TAKEN AWAY AND THY SIN PURGED, at...
JEHOVAH REVEALED IN HIS GLORY...
HE LAID IT: _ Heb._ caused it to touch...
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HE LAID IT UPON MY MOUTH slightly, so as only to touch my lips, and not to burn them; which God could easily effect. THY SIN PURGED; this is a sign that I have pardoned and purged the uncleanness of t...
Isaiah 6:7 touched H5060 (H8686) mouth H6310 said H559 (H8799) touched H5060 (H8804) lips H8193 iniquity...
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