--- title: "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible" author: "Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown" languages: [en] shelf: "Commentaries" section: 363 of 927 url: https://scriptura.si/works/jamieson-fausset-brown-commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/363/ cite: "Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, section 363. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/jamieson-fausset-brown-commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/363/" --- # Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible *Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown* The Victorian standard commentary, critical and practical, from Genesis to Revelation. ## 363. Isaiah · 66 of 79 Source: https://scriptura.si/works/jamieson-fausset-brown-commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/363/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/jamieson-fausset-brown-commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/363/#p-N [¶0] 12. go out--from the various countries in which ye (the Jews) are scattered, to your own land ([Eze 11:17]). [¶1] led--by Messiah, your "Leader" ([Is 55:4]; [Is 52:12]; [Mi 2:12], ). [¶2] mountains ... trees, &c.--images justly used to express the seeming sympathy of nature with the joy of God's people. For, when sin is removed, the natural world shall be delivered from "vanity," and be renewed, so as to be in unison with the regenerated moral world ([Is 44:23]; [Psa 98:8]; [Ro 8:19-22]). [¶3] 13. thorn--emblem of the wicked ([2Sa 23:6]; [Mi 7:4]). [¶4] fir tree--the godly ([Is 60:13]; [Psa 92:12]). Compare as to the change wrought, [Ro 6:19]. [¶5] brier--emblem of uncultivation ([Is 5:6]). [¶6] myrtle--Hebrew, Hedes, from which comes Hedassah, the original name of Esther. Type of the Christian Church; for it is a lowly, though beautiful, fragrant, and evergreen shrub ([Psa 92:13], ). [¶7] for a name ... everlasting sign--a perpetual memorial to the glory of Jehovah ([Jr 13:11]; ). ### Chapter 56 ### Is 56:1-12. The Preparation Needed on the Part of Those Who Wish to Be Admitted to the Kingdom of God [¶10] 1. judgment--equity. John the Baptist preached similarly a return to righteousness, as needed to prepare men for Messiah's first coming ([Lu 3:3], ). So it shall be before the second coming (Mal 4:4-6). [¶11] near to come--([Mt 3:2]; ), also as to the second coming ([Is 62:10], ; [Lu 21:28], ; [Ro 13:11], ; [He 10:25]). [¶12] righteousness--answering to "salvation" in the parallel clause; therefore it means righteousness which bringeth salvation ([Is 46:13]; [Ro 3:25], ). [¶13] 2. ([Lu 12:43]). [¶14] the man--Hebrew, enosh, "a man in humble life," in contradistinction to Hebrew, ish, "one of high rank." Even the humblest, as "the stranger" and "the eunuch" ([Is 56:4], ), are admissible to these privileges. [¶15] this ... it--what follows: "keeping the Sabbath," &c. ([Is 58:13], ; [Eze 20:12]). A proof that the Sabbath, in the spirit of its obligation, was to be binding under the Gospel ([Is 66:23]). That gospel times are referred to is plain, from the blessing not being pronounced on the man who observed the sacrificial ritual of the Jewish law. [¶16] layeth hold--image from one grasping firmly some precious object which he is afraid of having forcibly snatched from him. The "Sabbath" here includes all the ordinances of divine worship under the new gospel law. [¶17] keepeth ... hand ... from ... evil--The observance of the second table of the law; as the "Sabbath" referred to the first table. Together, they form the whole duty of man, the worship of God and a holy life. [¶18] 3. God welcomes all believers, without distinction of persons, under the new economy ([Ac 10:34], ). [¶19] joined ... to ... Lord--([Nu 18:4], ). "Proselytes." [¶20] separated--Proselytes from the Gentiles were not admitted to the same privileges as native Israelites. This barrier between Jews and Gentiles was to be broken down ([Ep 2:14-16]). [¶21] eunuch--([Ac 8:27], &c.). Eunuchs were chamberlains over harems, or court ministers in general. [¶22] dry tree--barren (compare [Lu 23:31]); not admissible into the congregation of Israel ([De 23:1-3]). Under the Gospel the eunuch and stranger should be released from religious and civil disabilities. [¶23] 4. please me--sacrifice their own pleasure to mine. [¶24] take hold--so "layeth hold" (see on [Is 56:2]). [¶25] 5. in mine house--the temple, the emblem of the Church ([1Ti 3:15]). They shall no longer be confined as proselytes were, to the outer court, but shall be admitted "into the holiest" ([He 10:19], ). [¶26] a place--literally, "a hand." [¶27] than of sons--Though the eunuch is barren of children ([Is 56:3]), I will give him a more lasting name than that of being father of sons and daughters (regarded as a high honor among the Hebrews) ([Joh 1:12]; ; [1Jo 3:1]; [Re 2:17]; ). [¶28] 6. join ... Lord--([Jr 50:6]). Conditions of admission to the privileges of adoption. [¶29] 7. Even them--([Ep 2:11-13]). [¶30] to my holy mountain--Jerusalem, the seat of the Lord's throne in His coming kingdom ([Is 2:2]; [Jr 3:17]). [¶31] joyful--([Ro 5:11]). [¶32] burnt offerings ... sacrifices--spiritual, of which the literal were types ([Ro 12:1]; [He 13:15]; [1Pe 2:5]). [¶33] accepted--([Ep 1:6]). [¶34] altar--([He 13:10]), spiritually, the Cross of Christ, which sanctifies our sacrifices of prayer and praise. [¶35] house ... for all people--or rather, "peoples." No longer restricted to one favored people (Mal 1:11; [Joh 4:21], ; [1Ti 2:8]). To be fully realized at the second coming ([Is 2:2-4]). No longer literal, but spiritual sacrifice, namely, "prayer" shall be offered ([Psa 141:2]; ; Mal 1:11; [Mt 21:13]). [¶36] 8. Jehovah will not only restore the scattered outcasts of Israel ([Is 11:12]; [Psa 147:2]) to their own land, but "will gather others ('strangers') to him (Israel), besides those gathered" (Margin, "to his gathered"; that is, in addition to the Israelites collected from their dispersion), ([Joh 10:16]; [Ep 1:10]; 2:19). [¶37] 9. beasts--Gentile idolatrous nations hostile to the Jews, summoned by God to chastise them (Jr 12:7-9; 50:; [Eze 34:5]): the Chaldeans and subsequently the Romans. The mention of the "outcasts of Israel" ([Is 56:8]) brings in view the outcasting, caused by the sins of their rulers ([Is 56:10-12]). [¶38] to devour--namely, Israel. [¶39] 10. His watchmen--Israel's spiritual leaders ([Is 62:6]; [Eze 3:17]). [¶40] dumb dogs--image from bad shepherds' watchdogs, which fail to give notice, by barking, of the approach of wild beasts. [¶41] blind--([Mt 23:16]). [¶42] sleeping, lying down--rather, "dreamers, sluggards" [Lowth]. Not merely sleeping inactive, but under visionary delusions. [¶43] loving to slumber--not merely slumbering involuntarily, but loving it. [¶44] 11. greedy--literally, "strong" (that is, insatiable) in appetite ([Eze 34:2], ; [Mi 3:11]).