Isaiah 52:1
AWAKE. Same form as in Isaiah 51:9. not the same as in Isaiah 51:17. Figure of speech _Epizeuxis._ App-6. THE HOLY CITY. Hebrew "the city of the Sanctuary". See note on Exodus 3:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
AWAKE. Same form as in Isaiah 51:9. not the same as in Isaiah 51:17. Figure of speech _Epizeuxis._ App-6. THE HOLY CITY. Hebrew "the city of the Sanctuary". See note on Exodus 3:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHAKE. See note on Isaiah 33:9. SIT: i.e. sit as queen. Compare Revelation 18:7, for usage.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. REDEEMED. Hebrew. _ga'al._ See note on Exodus 6:6. WITHOUT MONEY. not with silver. Compare 1 Peter 1:18.... [ Continue Reading ]
MY PEOPLE WENT DOWN AFORETIME. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 46:6). See App-92. THE ASSYRIAN. This was "another king" (Acts 7:18), the first of. new dynasty, the "new king" of Exodus 1:8, who (of course) "knew not Joseph". See notes on the above passages. OPPRESSED THEM. This refers to Exodus 1... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT HAVE. HERE... ?. what do. here? What He did in the circumstances of Isaiah 52:4 we know. What He will do in these new circumstances we are about to be told. IS. hath been. MY NAME, &C. Quoted in Romans 2:24.... [ Continue Reading ]
HOW BEAUTIFUL, &C. Quoted in Romans 10:15. THE FEET. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Part), for the whole person of the messenger, that we may not think of him, but of his coming as sent by Jehovah (compare Nahum 1:15). Fulfilled partially in John and Christ, both of whom were rejected and... [ Continue Reading ]
SING. shout. SEE EYE TO EYE. see face to face, and will be face to face with the coming heralds of the King, yea, with the King Himself. This oft misapplied expression ha? nothing whatever to do with agreement in opinion.... [ Continue Reading ]
COMFORTED. Compare Isaiah 40:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
HOLY. See note on Exodus 3:5. ARM. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), for the wonders wrought by it. Also Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6. EYES, &C.. sight, or view. Compare Isaiah 40:5; Isaiah 49:26.... [ Continue Reading ]
DEPART YE. Note the Figure of speech _Epizeuxis_. Compare Revelation 18:4. Quoted (in application for us to-day) in 2 Corinthians 6:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
YE SHALL NOT GO OUT WITH HASTE. Reference to Pentateuch, where it was otherwise (only here, Exodus 12:33; Exodus 12:39, and Deuteronomy 16:3). THE GOD OF ISRAEL. See note on Isaiah 29:23. REREWARD. rear-guard. Compare Isaiah 58:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
MY SERVANT. The Messiah. See note on Isaiah 37:35. _ HUMBLED_. EXALTED. EXTROLLED. BE VERY HIGH. Figure of speech _Anabasis_, for great emphasis. riseth. is lifted up. becometh very high (compare Philippians 1:2; Philippians 1:9). DEAL PRUDENTLY. prosper. Compare 1 Samuel 18:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS. According as. This corresponds with the "so" of Isaiah 52:15 (not with the "so" in the next clause, which is parenthetic). ASTONIED: corresponding with the word rendered "sprinkle" in Isaiah 52:15. From Old English _estonner_. Nine times so spelled, from Wycliff and Geneva Bible. Chaucer spells... [ Continue Reading ]
SO. Corresponding with the "As" of Isaiah 52:14. SPRINKLE. cause to leap or spring up for joy. Hebrew. _nazah_. When used of liquids it means to spurt out, as in Isaiah 63:3, the only other occurrence in Isaiah, and that in judgment (compare 2 Kings 9:33). The usual word for ceremonial sprinkling is... [ Continue Reading ]