CHAPTER XXXV _Flourishing state of the Church of God consequent to the awful_ _judgments predicted in the preceding chapter. The images_ _employed in the description are so very consolatory and sublime_ _as to oblige us to extend their fulfilment to that period of_ _the Gospel dispensation when... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 35:2. _REJOICE EVEN WITH JOY AND SINGING_ - "The well-watered plain of Jordan shall also rejoice"] For ורנן _veranen_, the _Septuagint_ read ירדן _yarden_, τα ερηνα του Ιορδανου, "the deserts of Jordan." _Four_ MSS. read גלת _gulath_; see Joshua 15:19: "Irrigua Jordani;" _Houbigant_. גי... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 35:7. _THE PARCHED GROUND_ - "The glowing sand"] שרב _sharab_; this word is Arabic, [Arabic] as well as Hebrew, expressing in both languages the same thing, the _glowing sandy plain_, which in the hot countries at a distance has the appearance of water. It occurs in the Koran, chap. xx... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 35:8. _AND A HIGHWAY_] The word ודרך _vederech_ is by mistake added to the first member of the sentence from the beginning of the following member. _Sixteen_ MSS. of Dr. _Kennicott's, seven_ ancient, and _two_ of _De Rossi's_ have it but once; so likewise the _Syriac, Septuagint_, and _... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 35:9. _IT SHALL NOT BE FOUND THERE_ - "Neither shall he be found there"] _Three_ MSS. read ולא _velo_, adding the conjunction; and so likewise the _Septuagint_ and _Vulgate_. And _four_ MSS., _one_ ancient, read ימצא _yimmatsa_, the verb, as it certainly ought to be, in the masculine fo... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 35:10. _THE RANSOMED_] פדויי _peduyey_, from פדה _padah_, "to redeem by paying a price." Those for whom a price was paid down to redeem them from bondage and death. _SIGHING SHALL FLEE AWAY._] אנחה _anachah_. Never was a sorrowful accent better expressed than in this strong guttural wo... [ Continue Reading ]