_ISAIAH, IN A VISION OF THE LORD IN HIS GLORY, BEING TERRIFIED, IS CONFIRMED AND RECEIVETH HIS MESSAGE: HE SHEWETH THE OBSTINACY OF THE PEOPLE, EVEN TO THEIR DESOLATION. A REMNANT SHALL BE SAVED._ _Before Christ 760._... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE YEAR THAT KING UZZIAH DIED, I SAW, &C.— We have in this chapter the _fourth_ sermon, containing an account of a wonderful and august vision wherewith the prophet was favoured by the Lord: The design of which is two-fold; to exhibit a figure of the kingdom of the Son of God, hereafter to be ma... [ Continue Reading ]
ABOVE IT STOOD— The state, figure, and actions of the Seraphim are here described: The word שׂופים _seraphim,_ says Vitringa, signifies fiery and shining bodies, from ףּשׂר _seraph,_ to burn; (see Numbers 21:6.) and is in this place to be understood of persons of a bright and splendid appearance, cov... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN SAID I, &C.— The second part of this vision contains the sanctification of the prophet for the undertaking of a great prophetical office, and consists of two parts: the first describes the prophet's state of mind upon the sight of the preceding illustrious vision: His consternation upon the sen... [ Continue Reading ]
ALSO I HEARD THE VOICE OF THE LORD— We have here the _third_ part of this vision, comprehending, first, a trial of the disposition of the prophet, now sanctified, with his reply to the Lord, in the present verse; secondly, the command delivered to him concerning the execution of the divine judgment... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID, GO, &C.— In this commission given by God to the prophet, we have, first, the preface, in which he is enjoined to bear God's denunciation to the Jewish people; whom God does not as usual call his people, but _this people; Go and tell this people._ We have, secondly, the words themselves,... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT YET, &C.— _But though there shall yet remain in it a tenth part, even that shall be for a prey. As an elm and as an oak, of which, when they are lopped, the trunk remaineth; so the holy seed shall be the trunk thereof._ See Vitringa, and compare Romans 11:19. REFLECTIONS.—1st, Isaiah had before... [ Continue Reading ]