Isaiah 6:1
KING UZZIAH. Contrast this leprous king with the glorious king of Isaiah 6:5. DIED. In. separate house. This completes the contrast. I SAW. Hebrew ra'ah. to see clearly. As in Isaiah 6:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
KING UZZIAH. Contrast this leprous king with the glorious king of Isaiah 6:5. DIED. In. separate house. This completes the contrast. I SAW. Hebrew ra'ah. to see clearly. As in Isaiah 6:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
IT: i.e. the throne. seraphims. burning ones. No Art. Celestial beings, named but unexplained. Name used of the serpents (Numbers 21:6) because of the burning effect produced by them, just as _nachash_ was used of. snake because of its shining skin (Numbers 21:9), as well as of the shining one of Ge... [ Continue Reading ]
HOLY, HOLY, HOLY. Figure of speech _Epizeuxis_ for intense and solemn emphasis. Compare the threefold blessing of Numbers 6:24 and Revelation 4:8,. threefold unity.... [ Continue Reading ]
WOE. Figure of speech _Ecphonesis._ App-6. UNDONE. dumb, or lost. The essence of true conviction is. concern for what. _am,_ not for what. have _done_ or _not done._ SEEN. Compare Job 42:5. KING. Contrast "king Uzziah", Isaiah 6:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
FLEW. Compare "ran" (Luke 15:20). THE TONGS. Reference to Pent, (Exodus 25:38; Exodus 25:37; Exodus 25:23 ("snuffers"). Numbers 4:9). App-92.... [ Continue Reading ]
INIQUITY. Hebrew. _'avah,_ App-44. PURGED. covered. Hebrew. _kaphar_. to cover, and thus, here, atone. See note on Exodus 29:33. Not the same word as in Isaiah 1:25; Isaiah 4:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
VOICE. See the Structure (p. 980). This is the voice from the Temple concerning the "scattering", corresponding with Isaiah 40:3; Isaiah 40:6, which is the voice from the wilderness concerning the "gathering". WHOM SHALL. SEND? This was not Isaiah's original commission to prophesy, but his special... [ Continue Reading ]
HEAR YE INDEED. Hebrew "a hearing, hear ye". Figure of speech _Polyptoton_ (App-6) for emphasis. See note on Genesis 26:28. SEE YE INDEED. Hebrew "a seeing see ye". Figure of speech _Polyptoton,_ as above.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 times (Matthew 13:14.Mark 4:12.Luke 8:10; John 12:40; Acts 28:26; Acts 28:27; Romans 11:8). Solemnly... [ Continue Reading ]
HOW LONG? See the answer (Romans 11:25). WASTED. desolate. WITHOUT. for want of. man. Hebrew. _adam._ App-14. LAND. ground, or soil. Hebrew. _adamah_ DESOLATE. See note on Isaiah 1:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. FORSAKING. See note on Isaiah 1:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT YET IN IT SHALL BE. TENTH, &C.. Still, there is in it (the land). tenth part; and it (the tenth part) shall again be swept away; yet, as with terebinth and oak, whose life remains in them when felled, the holy seed will be the life thereof. This is no "interpolation"; it is necessary to complete... [ Continue Reading ]