Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 7:15
Butter — The common food of children in that country. He — The virgin's son. Know — To discern between things good and evil.
Butter — The common food of children in that country. He — The virgin's son. Know — To discern between things good and evil.
Verse Isaiah 7:15. _THAT HE MAY KNOW_ - "When he shall know"] "Though so much has been written on this important passage, there is an obscurity and inconsequence which still attends it, in the genera...
BUTTER AND HONEY - The word rendered “butter” (חמאה _chem'âh_), denotes not butter, but thick and curdled milk. This was the common mode of using milk as an article of food in the East, and is still....
CHAPTER 7 The Prophet before King Ahaz 1. _The king in trouble (Isaiah 7:1)_ 2. _Isaiah sent and his message (Isaiah 7:3)_ 3. _A sign offered and refused (Isaiah 7:10)_ 4. The sign: The virgin birth...
ISAIAH GIVES AHAZ THE ENCOURAGING SIGN OF IMMANUEL WHEN HE IS DISMAYED BY THE ALLIANCE OF SYRIA AND EPHRAIM AGAINST HIM. For the historical circumstances see pp. 59, 70f. Apart from Isaiah 7:1, which...
BUTTER. Curds. See Genesis 18:8; Deuteronomy 32:14, &c. THAT HE MAY KNOW. up to the time of his knowing: i.e. the prophecy shall come to pass while still. babe. See Isaiah 7:16. CHOOSE. See note on
The sign of Immanuel. See Additional Note at the end of this chapter. 14. _Therefore_ because of this act of unbelief. _the Lord himself_ The word is _Adonai_, as ch. Isaiah 6:1. _Behold, a virgin_ (L...
_Butter and honey shall he eat_ This has to be explained by Isaiah 7:22, where the eating of butter (lit. "thick milk") and (wild) honey is a symptom of the primitive simplicity to which human life is...
BUTTER AND HONEY SHALL HE EAT, &C.— _Cream and honey shall he eat, till,_ &c. The meaning of this verse is, that this child, called _Immanuel,_ should be educated in the common method; the cultivated...
THE CHRIST Isaiah 7:10-16 TEXT: Isaiah 7:10-16 10 And Jehovah spake again unto Ahaz, saying, 11 Ask thee a sign of Jehovah thy God; ask it either in the depth or in the height above. 12 But Aha...
Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. BUTTER (Hebrew: chem'aah (H2529)) - rather, Curdled milk, the acid of which is grateful in the heat of the...
7:15 Butter (c-1) Or 'cream,' or 'curds.' know (d-10) Or 'until he know.'...
1-16. Isaiah assures Ahaz by a sign that Judah will be delivered from Syria and Israel....
BUTTER (RM 'CURDS') AND HONEY] i.e. simple pastoral products, not bread and meat, because the land has gone out of cultivation: the 'honey' was probably wild honey. That privation is implied is clear...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS ISAIAH DECLARES HOW GOD’S PEOPLE SHOULD BE LIVING ISAIAH CHAPTER S 1 TO 9 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 7 From now on in the Book of Isaiah, the names Israel and Eph...
‘Curds and honey’ were poor foods for hard times. During the next 3 years, Damascus (capital of Syria) would fall to the *Assyrian army. So did Samaria (capital of Israel), 13 years later. ENEMIES WI...
BUTTER AND HONEY SHALL HE EAT, THAT HE MAY KNOW... — Better, _till he know,_ or, _when he shall know...._ — By a strange inversion of the familiar associations of the phrase (Exodus 3:17; Deuteronomy...
חֶמְאָ֥ה וּ דְבַ֖שׁ יֹאכֵ֑ל לְ דַעְתֹּ֛ו מָאֹ
CHAPTER V THE WORLD IN ISAIAH'S DAY AND ISRAEL'S GOD 735-730 B.C. UP to this point we have been acquainted with Isaiah as a prophet of general principles, preaching to his countrymen the elements of...
THE SIGN OF IMMANUEL Isaiah 7:1-17 A new cycle of prophecy begins here, covering the reign of Ahaz. The complete history which illustrates these Chapter s is given in 2 Chronicles 28:5. The invasion...
Immediately following this new call of the prophet, we have the account of his encounter with Ahaz. Rezin of Syria and Pekah of Israel had entered into a confederacy against Judah, and a great fear po...
(n) Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. (n) Meaning that Christ is not only God, but man also, because he will be nourished as other men until the...
_Honey. Like other infants. (Calmet) --- The new baptized received some to remind them of innocence. (Tertullian, cor. 3.) --- Christ shall be true man. (Menochius)_...
Reader! do not forget again, in the perusal of this most blessed scripture, to observe how the Lord takes occasion from man's unworthiness to magnify the riches of his grace. So, indeed, the Lord hath...
15._Butter and honey shall he eat. _Here the Prophet proves the true human nature of Christ; for it was altogether incredible that he who was God should be born of _a virgin_. Such a prodigy was revol...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9:1-7. But this requires further development; and it is given in a remarkable manner in the next prophecy, comprised in Chapter s 7, 8, 9 to the end...
BUTTER AND HONEY SHALL HE EAT..... As the Messiah Jesus no doubt did; since he was born in a land flowing with milk and honey, and in a time of plenty, being a time of general peace; so that this phra...
Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. Ver. 15. _Butter and honey shall he eat,_] _i.e., _ He shall be fed with children's meat, after the manner of...
_Butter and honey shall he eat_ The common food of children in that country, where these articles were in great abundance, and of the best sort. The principal meaning of the verse seems to be, that th...
THE SON OF THE VIRGIN PROMISED...
Butter, the thick curdled milk, which is a favorite in the Orient, AND HONEY SHALL HE EAT, THAT HE MAY KNOW TO REFUSE THE EVIL AND CHOOSE THE GOOD, such would be His food beginning with the age of dis...
10-16 Secret disaffection to God is often disguised with the colour of respect to him; and those who are resolved that they will not trust God, yet pretend they will not tempt him. The prophet reprov...
BUTTER AND HONEY; the common food of children in that Country, where they were in great abundance, and of the best sort. HE; the virgin's Son last mentioned, who, though he be God blessed for ever, ye...
Isaiah 7:15 Curds H2529 honey H1706 eat H398 (H8799) know H3045 (H8800) refuse H3988 (H8800) evil...
THE MISERABLE FAILURE OF AHAZ AND GOD'S JUDGMENT ON HIS HOUSE (ISAIAH 7:10). We must not underestimate this incident. In this total turnabout of history in Israel's most crucial time, for it would det...
BUTTER AND HONEY Indicating the plainness and simplicity of the life in which the young Immanuel should be brought up....
Isaiah 7:1. And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jer...
CONTENTS: Evil confederacy of Rezin and Jekah. The sign of the Virgin's Son. Prediction of impending invasion of Judah. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Ahaz, Rezin, Pekah, Isaiah, Shear-jashub. CONCLUSION:...
Isaiah 7:1. _In the days of Ahaz,_ the second or the third year of his reign. Chapter s 5. and 6. are therefore out of place. Isaiah 7:6. _Let us go up against Judah and set a king in the midst of it,...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 7:10 AHAZ, king of Judah, sees Syria and EPHRAIM (the northern kingdom) as a threat, even though the Lord has said Ahaz has nothing to fear from them. Though Ahaz is the heir of...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 7:15 The threat from Syria and Ephraim will pass in less time than it takes for the BOY (possibly meaning “any boy”) to reach an age when he can REFUSE THE EVIL AND CHOOSE THE GO...
THE GREAT OBJECT OF CHILD-TRAINING (_A Sunday-School Anniversary Sermon_.) Isaiah 7:15. _The child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good_. These words, taken above, form a complete sente...
THE VIRGIN’S SON Isaiah 7:13. _And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David, &c._ On this supremely difficult passage Dr. Kennicott preached a remarkable sermon before the University of Oxford, on the...
ISAIAH’S INTERVIEW WITH AHAZ Isaiah 7:3. _Then said the Lord unto Isaiah, &c._ In this interview of Isaiah with Ahaz we have an instance— I. OF GOD’S EFFORTS TO TURN MEN FROM RUINOUS COURSES. God is...
SECTION IV. PROPHECIES CONNECTED WITH THE SYRO-ISRAELITE WAR (Isaiah 7-10:4). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 7:1 THE PROPHECY GIVEN TO AHAZ
Now Uzziah is dead and his grandson Ahaz is reigning. It came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, the king of Judah, that Rezin was the king of Syria, and Pekah was the...
Amos 5:15; Genesis 24:43; Isaiah 7:22; Luke 1:35; Luke 2:40;...