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Verse Isaiah 65:5. _FOR I AM HOLIER THAN THOU_] So the _Chaldee_
renders it.
קדשתיך kedashticha is the same with קדשתי ממך _kadashti_
_mimmecha_. In the same manner חזקתני _chazaktani_, Jeremiah
20:7...
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WHICH SAY, STAND BY THYSELF - Who at the time that they engage in
these abominations are distinguished for spiritual pride. The most
worthless people are commonly the most proud; and they who have
wan...
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CHAPTER 65
Jehovah's Answer: The Rebellious and Their Judgment,
the Faithful and Their Blessings
1. _The divine rebuke to the apostates (Isaiah 65:1) _ 2. _The elect
seed (Isaiah 65:9) _ 3. The judg...
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RETRIBUTION AWAITS THOSE WHO CLING TO THE OLD RITUAL PRACTICES AND
REFUSE TO ADHERE TO THE REFORMED RELIGION. Yahweh declares His
readiness to respond to this people, but they would not approach Him
o...
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Description of their illegal and superstitious cults....
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_Stand by thyself_ Lit. "Draw near to thyself." Cf. Isaiah 49:20.
_for I am holier than thou_ This construction of the accus. suffix is
hardly admissible. The verb is to be pointed as _Piel_, and the...
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WHICH SAY, STAND BY THYSELF, &C.— In the following section, ch.
Isaiah 66:5 the crime of hypocrisy as here is decried, and every
reader will easily recognize in both places the Pharisees and their
fol...
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E. REFINING OF ZION, CHAPTER 65
1. CLEANSED
TEXT: Isaiah 65:1-12
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I am inquired of by them that asked not for me; I am found of them
that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation...
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Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier
than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the
day.
WHICH SAY, STAND BY THYSELF, COME NOT NEAR TO ME; FOR I A...
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65:5 thou. (a-16) Or 'I sanctify myself in respect of thee.'...
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WHICH SAY, etc.] The words are uttered by those initiated into heathen
mysteries, and who therefore considered themselves peculiarly sacred....
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1. Render, 'I have offered answers to those who asked not; I have been
at hand to those who sought me not.. a nation that hath not called
upon my name.' The v. refers to the Israelites who neglected J...
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These verses describe the same situation in the *Old Testament. There
are many *Israelites who would consider themselves to be the ‘people
of God’. But their daily behaviour does not agree with their...
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 65
CHAPTER S 65-66 refer to subjects in CHAPTER S 1-4.
• In chapter 2:1-...
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Those who proudly pretend to be ‘holier’ than other people make
God very angry. Such people proudly consider that they do not need
God. The picture language of ‘smoke up the nose’ describes what
God’s...
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WHICH SAY, STAND BY THYSELF... — The picture, in its main outlines,
reminds us of the proud exclusiveness of the later Pharisees, and the
root-evil is, of course, identical. Here, however, the ground...
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הָ אֹֽמְרִים֙ קְרַ֣ב אֵלֶ֔יךָ אַל
־תִּגַּשׁ ־
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CHAPTER XXV
A LAST INTERCESSION AND THE JUDGMENT
Isaiah 63:7 through Isaiah 66:1
WE might well have thought, that with the section we have been
considering the prophecy of Israel's Redemption had re...
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A SEED RESCUED FROM DESTRUCTION
Isaiah 65:1-12
The prophet now enumerates the reasons that forced the Lord to turn
aside from the Chosen People, and call in the Gentiles to occupy the
place and perfo...
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In this chapter we have a graphic description of the working of the
principle of discrimination, the sifting of the people by God. There
is first a contrast between the false and the true. The rebelli...
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Which say, (h) Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier
than thou. These [are] a smoke in my nose, a fire that (i) burneth all
the day.
(h) He shows that hypocrisy is always joined with...
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_Unclean. Thus acted the hypocritical Pharisees. --- Smoke. A just
punishment of those who had sought the smoke of human applause._...
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This is the lamentation of Jesus over his ancient people, the Jews.
And what a sad history of rebellion, from the beginning, when God
formed them into a Church, to the time of their rejecting the Lord...
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5._Remain by thyself. _(202) He points out extreme impiety in the
Jews, who obstinately and rebelliously opposed God’s worshippers,
and refused to listen to any warnings. There is some hope of
repenta...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 64 AND 65.
The next two Chapter s give us a full revelation of the dealings of
God in answer to this appeal. First of all, God, through His grace,
had been so...
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WHICH SAY, STAND BY THYSELF, c], According to Aben Ezra, Jarchi, and
Kimchi, these are the unclean persons that did the above things who
say to the righteous, "draw near to thyself" p; so the words ar...
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_Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier
than thou. These [are] a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the
day._
Ver. 5. _Which say, Stand by thyself; come not near to...
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_Who say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me_ Though they were so
exceedingly guilty, yet they pretended to singular sanctity, so that
they would not suffer others to come near or touch them. The r...
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which say, Stand by thyself, thus declaring their rejection of
Jehovah, COME NOT NEAR TO ME; FOR I AM HOLIER THAN THOU. Thus the
idolaters give voice to the thoughts of their hearts, with whom they
no...
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THE LORD'S REFUSAL...
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NOSE:
Or, anger...
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1-7 The Gentiles came to seek God, and find him, because they were
first sought and found of him. Often he meets some thoughtless trifler
or profligate opposer, and says to him, Behold me; and a spee...
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Though they were so exceedingly guilty, yet they pretended to a
singular sanctity, so as they would not suffer others to come near or
touch them. The Samaritans are usually charged with this
uncharita...
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THE MAJORITY OF HIS PEOPLE WILL REJECT HIM FOR THEIR IDOLS AND WILL
RECEIVE THEIR JUST PUNISHMENT (ISAIAH 65:2).
On the other hand those who do claim to be called by His name, but are
hypocritical, w...
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Isaiah 65:5
False grounds of superiority in holiness. The disposition to arrogate
the dignity of holiness, in other words, of religious worth and
excellence, has never become extinct among men, nor th...
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CONTENTS: Answer of Jehovah to remnant of Israel. Eternal blessing in
the renovated earth.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: Although Jehovah has long stretched forth His hand to a
disobedient and gainsa...
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Isaiah 65:4. _Which remain among the graves._ The LXX add, _dream._
Perhaps Jude had this text in his eye, when he calls the wicked
“filthy dreamers.”
_See Augustine's city of God. Which eat swine's f...
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_Which may, Stand by thyself_
“ I AM HOLIER THAN THOU”
For “I am holier read, probably, else I will make thee holy.
” The practices referred to were “mysteries,” and the initiated
would communicate...
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_A people that provoked Me to anger_
OBSTINACY PROVOKES GOD’S WRATH
By rejecting His love with stiff-necked obstinacy, they have incurred
wrath, which, though long and patiently restrained, now burs...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 65:1 Though the people of God have unfaithful
sinners mixed among them now, he is eager to bring them into their
glorious eternal home. His eagerness is rejected by Jews but welc...
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REPUDIATING THE SOCIETY OF OTHERS
Isaiah 65:5. _Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me, &c._
There are few things in which it becomes us to be more careful than in
our judgment of others, a...
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SECTION XI.—GOD'S ANSWER TO THE EXILES' PRAYER (Isaiah 65:1.)
EXPOSITION
ISAIAH 65:1
ISRAEL'S SUFFERINGS
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Now God answers the prayer offered by the remnant of the people and He
said,
I am sought of them that asked not for me (Isaiah 65:1);
Here's the remnant of the Jewish people calling to God. "If You'...
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1 Peter 5:5; Acts 22:21; Acts 22:22; Deuteronomy 29:20; Deuter
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Holier — Thus they esteemed themselves holier than others, though
all their holiness lay in rituals, and those too, such as God never
commanded. Of these God saith, These are a smoak in my nostrils, a...