Isaiah 20 - Introduction
_A TYPE PREFIGURING THE SHAMEFUL CAPTIVITY OF EGYPT AND ETHIOPIA._ _Before Christ 714._... [ Continue Reading ]
_A TYPE PREFIGURING THE SHAMEFUL CAPTIVITY OF EGYPT AND ETHIOPIA._ _Before Christ 714._... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE YEAR THAT TARTAN CAME, &C.— We have in this chapter an addition to the 5th discourse, in which the prophet is said to have shewn himself, by the divine command, _naked and barefooted_ to the Jews, to teach them by this sign, which also he explains, that the Egyptians and Ethiopians, on whose... [ Continue Reading ]
SPAKE THE LORD BY ISAIAH, &C.— Or, _To Isaiah,_ &c. By _sackcloth_ is meant the hairy garment usually worn by prophets. By _naked_ is meant, no more than that the prophet went without his upper garment: It was customary for captives to go about in this manner. See 1 Samuel 19:24. 2 Samuel 6:14.Matth... [ Continue Reading ]
THREE YEARS FOR A SIGN.— _A three years' sign._ The meaning seems to be, not that Isaiah walked three years _naked and barefooted,_ but that he walked naked and barefoot for a sign of what should happen three years afterwards.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY SHALL BE AFRAID, &C.— We have, in these words, the consequence of the divine judgment upon the Egyptians and Cushites; and the scope of the prophesy, namely, to convince the inhabitants of Palestine, and, among these, some factious persons in Jerusalem, of the vanity of the confidence which... [ Continue Reading ]