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Verse Isaiah 6:10. _MAKE THE HEART OF THIS PEOPLE FAT_ - "Gross"] The
prophet speaks of the event, the fact as it would actually happen, not
of God's purpose and act by his ministry. The prophets are...
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MAKE THE HEART - The word “heart” here is used in the sense of the
“mind” - to denote all their mental powers. It is commonly used in
this sense in the Scriptures.
FAT - Gross, heavy, dull, stupid. Th...
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CHAPTER 6
The Prophet's Vision and New Commission
1. _The time of the vision (Isaiah 6:1)_ 2. _Jehovah of hosts (Isaiah
6:2)_ 3. _The prophet's woe (Isaiah 6:5)_ 4. The cleansing ...
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ISAIAH 6. THE CALL OF ISAIAH. This chapter contains Isaiah's own
account of his call to the prophetic office. Presumably it was written
down some time after the event, but the interval need not have b...
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MAKE, &C.. Declare or foretell that the heart of this People will be
fat. Isaiah could do no more.. common Hebrew idiom. This prophecy is
of the deepest import in Israel's history. Written down seven...
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The first effect of Isaiah's prophetic work: to increase the spiritual
insensibility of the people. The prophet's words will go hand in hand
with the "work of Jehovah," the development of His purpose...
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_Make the heart … fat_ i.e. callous, unfeeling, Psalms 119:70. In
Hebrew idiom, the "heart" includes the understanding. _shut_(lit.
SMEAR) ITS _eyes_ cf. Isaiah 29:10; Isaiah 44:18;...
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AND HE SAID, GO, &C.— In this commission given by God to the
prophet, we have, first, the preface, in which he is enjoined to bear
God's denunciation to the Jewish people; whom God does not as usual
c...
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THE PROPHET SEES THE WORLD Isaiah 6:8-13
a. THE COMMISSION Isaiah 6:8-10
TEXT: Isaiah 6:8-10
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And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send, and who
will go for us? Then I said, Here...
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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...
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The result of the prophet's preaching described as though it were the
purpose. Most of his hearers will stubbornly reject his message, with
the result that they will become dead to all impressions. TH...
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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...
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
ISAIAH DECLARES HOW GOD’S PEOPLE SHOULD BE LIVING
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 1 TO 9
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 6
GOD CALLS ISAIAH
V1 In the year when King Uzziah died, I s...
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The strange message that Isaiah is to declare will not help his
listeners to understand. In fact, God’s message will act like a
blanket that covers the people’s ears and eyes and minds....
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MAKE THE HEART OF THIS PEOPLE FAT. — The thought is the same as that
of the “hardening” of Pharaoh’s heart (Exodus 8:19; Exodus 9:34,
&c) and that of Sihon (Deuteronomy 2:30). It implies the reckless...
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הַשְׁמֵן֙ לֵב ־הָ עָ֣ם הַ זֶּ֔ה וְ
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CHAPTER IV
ISAIAH'S CALL AND CONSECRATION
740 B.C.
written 735? or 727?
Isaiah 6:1
IT has been already remarked that in chapter 6 we should find no other
truths than those which have been unfolded...
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A CALL TO HEROIC SERVICE
Isaiah 6:1-13
Kings die; Jesus lives. See John 12:41. We are here reminded of Acts
22:17-18. How great the contrast between the worship of these seraphim
in the Unseen-Holy...
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We now begin the second part of the first circle of prophecy, which
contains the prophecies during the reigns of Jotham and Ahaz. When
Uzziah died, Isaiah was called to the exercise of a larger minist...
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Blind. The prophets are said to do what they denounce. (St. Thomas
Aquinas, [Summa Theologiae] 1. q. xxiv. 3.) (Sanctius) --- Septuagint,
"heavy or gross is the heart," &c. The authors of the New Test...
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Reader, pray attend to these verses: for so important are they
considered in the gospel-church, that no less than six times are they
taken notice of, and referred to, in the after-writings of the
scri...
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10._Harden the heart of this people. _(96) Here the former statement
is more fully expressed; for God informs Isaiah beforehand, not only
that his labor in teaching will be fruitless, but that by his...
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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...
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MAKE THE HEART OF THIS PEOPLE FAT,.... Gross and heavy, stupid and
unteachable, hard and obdurate; which is sometimes done by the
preaching of the Gospel, through the wickedness of man's heart, that
b...
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_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...
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_And he said, Go, and tell this people Not my people_, for I disown
them as they have rejected me. _Hear ye indeed, but understand not_,
&c. The Hebrew words are imperative; yet they are not to be tak...
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THE MISSION OF THE PROPHET...
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Make the heart of this people fat, insensitive to impressions for
good, so that feeling, reason, and will would become callous, AND MAKE
THEIR EARS HEAVY, the hearing of the mind becoming impaired bey...
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9-13 God sends Isaiah to foretell the ruin of his people. Many hear
the sound of God's word, but do not feel the power of it. God
sometimes, in righteous judgment, gives men up to blindness of mind,...
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FAT, i.e. stupid and senseless; for the fat which is in the body is
without sense; and fatness in the heart makes it dull and heavy. Thus
this phrase is used PSALMS 119:70. And this seems best to agre...
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Isaiah 6:10 heart H3820 people H5971 dull H8080 (H8685) ears H241
heavy H3513 (H8685) shut H8173 ...
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YAHWEH'S CALL TO ISAIAH (ISAIAH 6:5).
As Isaiah stood, or possibly prostrated himself, before the wonderful
vision of resplendent holiness, it was all too much for him as he was
made aware of his own...
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Isaiah 6:8
I. This, in all seeming, was the thankless office to which Isaiah was
called, to be heard, to be listened to, by some with contempt, by
others with seeming respect, and to leave things in t...
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Isaiah 6:1. 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. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with...
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Isaiah 6:1. _In the year that King Uzziah died_
You remember him, that leprous king, that king who had thrust himself
into the priests' office, and was smitten of leprosy, and shut up in a
separate h...
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CONTENTS: Isaiah's transforming vision and his new commission.
CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah.
CONCLUSION: Those who are to teach others the knowledge of God must
themselves have the vision of God. Those a...
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The excellence of the prophet's labours during the war with Pekah and
Rezin, seems to be the cause why this vision occupies but a secondary
place. God gave it to console the church on the death of so...
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_Make the heart of this people fat_
THE POWER OF SELF-CURSING
“Make the heart of this people fat,” etc.
By this it is not meant that Isaiah was to aim at and put forth what
power he possessed to lea...
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_And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand
not_
ISAIAH: HIS HEAVINESS AND HIS CONSOLATION
1.
Isaiah summed up his whole future life in those two words, “Behold
me; send m...
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_In the year that King Uzziah died I saw also the Lord_
THE STORY OF THE PROPHET’S CALL--WHY INSERTED HERE
Why the narrative of the prophet’s call was not, as in the cases of
Jeremiah and Ezekiel, a...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 6:9 God decrees that the prophet’s ministry
will have a hardening effect on his hearers (compare Matthew 13:14;...
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THE PROPHET’S CALL
Isaiah 6:1. _In the year that King Uzziah died, &c._
We have here the history of Isaiah’s call to his great life-work.
Perhaps in a modern biography this chapter would have been pl...
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SECTION III. ISAIAH'S VISION OF GOD UPON HIS THRONE (Isaiah 6:1.).
EXPOSITION
ISAIAH 6:1
THE VISION
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By Chuck Smith
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Isaiah, chapter 6, as Isaiah
records for us his commissioning by God for his ministry. Now you
remember in chapter 1 that Isaiah tells us that his tim...
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2 Corinthians 2:16; Acts 28:27; Acts 3:19; Deuteronomy 2:30;...
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THE LORD HIGH AND LIFTED UP
Isaiah 6:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
There is a twofold vision suggested in the first verse of our study.
"In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a
t...
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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 judgme...