Isaiah 56:1
KEEP YE.. JUSTICE] i.e. keep the law, and practise righteousness.... [ Continue Reading ]
KEEP YE.. JUSTICE] i.e. keep the law, and practise righteousness.... [ Continue Reading ]
1, 2. Further conditions to be observed that men may share in the approaching deliverance.... [ Continue Reading ]
LAYETH HOLD ON] RV ' holdeth fast by.' POLLUTING] RV 'profaning.' 3-7. The privileges of the people of God are open to all, even to those who think themselves excluded by race, or by physical disability (Deuteronomy 23:1). The sabbath appears to have been more strictly observed in the BabyIonian pe... [ Continue Reading ]
PLACE] RV 'memorial.'... [ Continue Reading ]
PEOPLE] RV 'peoples.' The passage is referred to by our Lord at the cleansing of the Temple (Matthew 21:13).... [ Continue Reading ]
BESIDE THOSE, etc.] RV 'beside his own that are gathered.'... [ Continue Reading ]
9. Israel pictured as a neglected and helpless flock, exposed to the attacks of wild beasts.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE IDOLATRIES OF ISRAEL It is difficult to determine the date of this section with certainty. Many scholars assign it, with the rest of Isaiah 40-66, to the period of the exile, or to a date after the return; but some give it a pre-exilic date, on the following grounds: (_a_) The picture that is dr... [ Continue Reading ]