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Verse Isaiah 66:8. _WHO HATH SEEN__ _- "And who hath seen"] Twenty
MSS., (four ancient,) of _Kennicott's_, and twenty-nine of _De
Rossi's_, and two ancient of my own, and the two oldest editions, with...
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WHO HATH HEARD SUCH A THING? - Of a birth so sudden. Usually in
childbirth there are the pains of protracted parturition. The earth
brings forth its productions gradually and slowly. Nations rise by
d...
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CHAPTER 66
The Finale: The Two Classes and the Prophecy of Isaiah in a Retrospect
1. _The apostates and their wicked worship (Isaiah 66:1) _ 2. _The
remnant suffering and encouraged (Isaiah 66:5) _ 3...
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ISAIAH 66. Here divisions are hard to define. The theme the coming
punishment of the apostates and the coming glory of the pious is
pursued now on one side, now on the other.
ISAIAH 66:1. AN ATTACK O...
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WHO. Some codices, with four early printed editions, Septuagint, and
Vulgate, read "and who".
A NATION: i.e. the righteous nation of Isaiah 26:2. Referred to in
Isaiah 66:7; Matthew 21:43.
AT ONCE. a...
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The sudden repopulation of the city by her children. The figure is
taken from ch. Isaiah 49:17-21; Isaiah 54:1; the fact set forth being
the instantaneous return of the exiled Israelites, by which, wi...
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_Shall the earth &c._ Render: SHALL (the people of) A LAND BE
TRAVAILED WITH IN ONE DAY? For "land" in the sense of "population"
there do not seem to be any real parallels; Judges 18:30 is hardly a
ca...
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2. BIRTH OF NEW ZION
TEXT: Isaiah 66:7-14
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Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was
delivered of a manchild.
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Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen Such thing...
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Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the
earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at
once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her child...
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66:8 forth (e-19) Or 'Is a land brought forth.'...
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IT SHALL COME] RV 'the time cometh.'
SHALL THE EARTH.. BRING FORTH] RV 'Shall a land be born.'...
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1. WHERE, etc.] RV 'what manner of house.. what place shall be my
rest.' The v. is a strong rebuke of such as, without a really
religious spirit, idly trusted in the inviolability of Zion, and the
pro...
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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 66
The *Lord divides the ‘people of God’ into two types. There are
those...
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The *Lord uses picture language to emphasise an important truth. In
real life, for a mother to give birth without pain cannot happen. Were
it to take place, it could only be by the *Lord’s powerful ac...
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SHALL THE EARTH BE MADE... — Better, _Shall a land be made to
travail._ The usually slow processes of national development are
contrasted with the supernatural rapidity of the birth and growth of
the...
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מִֽי ־שָׁמַ֣ע כָּ זֹ֗את מִ֤י רָאָה֙
כָּ
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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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GOD'S PEOPLE MADE A BLESSING
Isaiah 66:1-14
The prophet forecasts the advent of a new day, when places and rites
would be comparatively unimportant compared with the condition of the
heart, Isaiah 66...
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This last chapter is confessedly difficult of interpretation. In it
the prophet seems to look beyond all that he has previously described,
and to deal with destiny. He first announces anew the fact of...
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Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the
earth be made to bring forth in one (i) day? [or] shall a nation be
born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her...
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_Day. Shall a whole nation be born at once? Twelve fishermen effect
the most surprising change in the manners of the world._...
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Perhaps the voice here spoken of, means the voice of the gospel: and
the effects of it follow. Quick was the success, when the Holy Ghost
came upon them that heard the voice. Jehovah inquireth whether...
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8._Who hath heard such a thing? _He extols the greatness of the thing
of which he has spoken; for he means that there shall be a wonderful
and “unheard of” restoration of the Church; so that believers...
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Chapter 66 speaks of the judgment that introduces it, and consequently
gives us more historical details. The temple is rebuilt in Jerusalem
(Isaiah 66:6), but Jehovah does not own it, man alone being...
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WHO HATH HEARD SUCH A THING? WHO HATH SEEN SUCH THINGS?.... Such
numerous conversions, as after related; suggesting that they were
wonderful and surprising, unheard of, what had never been seen in the...
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Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the
earth be made to bring forth in one day? [or] shall a nation be born
at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her
chi...
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Here begins a new paragraph of the prophet's discourse, containing a
description of the sudden and great increase of the Christian Church,
upon God's rejecting the Jews, and destroying their temple an...
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THE ABOMINATIONS OF A DEAD WORSHIP AND THE BIRTH OF THE NEW CHURCH...
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Who hath heard such a thing? Who hath seen such things? The event to
which the Lord has reference is unheard of. SHALL THE EARTH BE MADE TO
BRING FORTH IN ONE DAY? Is a whole land or nation thus broug...
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5-14 The prophet turns to those that trembled at God's word, to
comfort and encourage them. The Lord will appear, to the joy of the
humble believer, and to the confusion of hypocrites and persecutors...
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The prophet calls either to the whole world, or to such as feared God
amongst the Jews, to admire God in his stupendous works of providence,
either in the easy manner of the deliverance of the Jews ou...
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THE BIRTH OF THE NEW AGE (ISAIAH 66:6).
Isaiah 66:6
‘A voice of tumult from the city,
A voice from the temple,
A voice of Yahweh,
Which renders recompense to his enemies.'
Before she travailed s...
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YAHWEH COMFORTS THOSE WHO FEAR HIM TRULY IN THE FACE OF THEIR
TREATMENT BY THE FORMALISTS. HE TELLS THEM A NEW DAY IS COMING, A DAY
OF GREAT CHANGE (ISAIAH 66:5).
Isaiah 66:5
“Hear the word of Yahwe...
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CONTENTS: Blessings of the coming universal Kingdom.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ.
CONCLUSION: Following the day of Christ's vengeance the sorrows of
Israel will be turned into abundant joys. All the Gen...
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Isaiah 66:1. _The heaven is my throne._ This chapter applies to
Isaiah's time, as well as to future times; and though the Lord
rejected the impure worship of the temple, yet he would dwell with the
co...
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_Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day?_
THE ACCELERATION OF GOD’S MOVEMENTS
We are taught that in these latter days God is to shorten normal
processes, accelerate events, and so “make a...
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_Before she travailed, she brought forth_
THE NEW ISRAEL
The predictive message of our prophet is now so far advanced that the
future promised is at the door; the Church of the future is already
lik...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 66:1 Though the worship of God is violated
now, in the future falsehood will be judged, true worship will spread,
and God will be honored forever.
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 66:7 Mother Zion gives BIRTH, effortlessly and
instantly, to a new nation (see Isaiah 49:19;...
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TRAVAILING FOR SOULS
Isaiah 66:8. _As soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth, &c._
That we may obtain a clear, comprehensive, and impressive view of the
doctrine involved in this declaration, let...
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SECTION XII.—FINAL THREATENINGS AND PROMISES (Isaiah 66:1.).
EXPOSITION
ISAIAH 66:1
THE UNGODLY EXILES REBUKED
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Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my
footstool: where is the house that you build unto me? and where is the
place of my rest? (Isaiah 66:1)
They're going to build a new te...
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1 Corinthians 2:9; Acts 2:41; Acts 21:20; Acts 4:4; Isaiah 49:20;...
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For — As soon as the voice of the gospel put the church of the Jews
into her travail, in Christ's and the Apostles time, it presently
brought forth....