--- title: "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible" author: "Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown" languages: [en] shelf: "Commentaries" section: 371 of 927 url: https://scriptura.si/works/jamieson-fausset-brown-commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/371/ cite: "Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, section 371. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/jamieson-fausset-brown-commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/371/" --- # 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. ## 371. Isaiah · 74 of 79 Source: https://scriptura.si/works/jamieson-fausset-brown-commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/371/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/jamieson-fausset-brown-commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/371/#p-N [¶0] 11. salvation--embodied in the Saviour (see [Zec 9:9]). [¶1] his work--rather, recompense ([Is 40:10]). [¶2] 12. Sought out--Sought after and highly prized by Jehovah; answering to "not forsaken" in the parallel clause; no longer abandoned, but loved; image from a wife ([Is 62:4]; [Jr 30:14]). ### Chapter 63 ### Is 63:1-19. Messiah Coming as the Avenger, in Answer to His People's Prayers [¶5] Messiah, approaching Jerusalem after having avenged His people on His and their enemies, is represented under imagery taken from the destruction of "Edom," the type of the last and most bitter foes of God and His people (see [Is 34:5], &c.). [¶6] 1. Who--the question of the prophet in prophetic vision. [¶7] dyed--scarlet with blood ([Is 63:2], ; [Re 19:13]). [¶8] Bozrah--(See on [Is 34:6]). [¶9] travelling--rather, stately; literally, "throwing back the head" [Gesenius]. [¶10] speak in righteousness--answer of Messiah. I, who have in faithfulness given a promise of deliverance, am now about to fulfil it. Rather, speak of righteousness ([Is 45:19]; ); salvation being meant as the result of His "righteousness" [Maurer]. [¶11] save--The same Messiah that destroys the unbeliever saves the believer. [¶12] 2. The prophet asks why His garments are "dyed" and "red." [¶13] winefat--rather, the "wine-press," wherein the grapes were trodden with the feet; the juice would stain the garment of him who trod them ([Re 14:19], ; ). The image was appropriate, as the country round Bozrah abounded in grapes. This final blow inflicted by Messiah and His armies ([Re 19:13-15]) shall decide His claim to the kingdoms usurped by Satan, and by the "beast," to whom Satan delegates his power. It will be a day of judgment to the hostile Gentiles, as His first coming was a day of judgment to the unbelieving Jews. [¶14] 3. Reply of Messiah. For the image, see [La 1:15]. He "treads the wine-press" here not as a sufferer, but as an inflicter of vengeance. [¶15] will tread ... shall be ... will stain--rather preterites, "I trod ... trampled ... was sprinkled ... I stained." [¶16] blood--literally, "spirited juice" of the grape, pressed out by treading [Gesenius]. [¶17] 4. is--rather, "was." This assigns the reason why He has thus destroyed the foe ([Zep 3:8]). [¶18] my redeemed--My people to be redeemed. [¶19] day ... year--here, as in [Is 34:8]; , the time of "vengeance" is described as a "day"; that of grace and of "recompense" to the "redeemed," as a "year." [¶20] 5. The same words as in [Is 59:16], except that there it is His "righteousness," here it is His "fury," which is said to have upheld Him. [¶21] 6. Rather, preterites, "I trod down ... made them drunk." The same image occurs [Is 51:17], ; [Psa 75:8]; [Jr 25:26], . [¶22] will bring down ... strength to ... earth--rather, "I spilled their life-blood (the same Hebrew words as in [Is 63:3]) on the earth" [Lowth and Septuagint]. [¶23] 7. Israel's penitential confession and prayer for restoration ([Psa 102:17], ), extending from [Is 63:7] to 64:12. [¶24] loving-kindnesses ... praises ... mercies ... loving-kindnesses--The plurals and the repetitions imply that language is inadequate to express the full extent of God's goodness. [¶25] us--the dispersed Jews at the time just preceding their final restoration. [¶26] house of Israel--of all ages; God was good not merely to the Jews now dispersed, but to Israel in every age of its history. [¶27] 8. he--Jehovah "said," that is, thought, in choosing them as His covenant-people; so "said" ([Psa 95:10]). Not that God was ignorant that the Jews would not keep faith with Him; but God is here said, according to human modes of thought to say within Himself what He might naturally have expected, as the result of His goodness to the Jews; thus the enormity of their unnatural perversity is the more vividly set forth. [¶28] lie--prove false to Me (compare [Psa 44:17]). [¶29] so--in virtue of His having chosen them, He became their Saviour. So the "therefore" ([Jr 31:33]). His eternal choice is the ground of His actually saving men ([Ep 1:3], ). [¶30] 9. he was afflicted--English Version reads the Hebrew as the Keri (Margin), does, "There was affliction to Him." But the Chetib (text) reads, "There was no affliction" (the change in Hebrew being only of one letter); that is, "In all their affliction there was no (utterly overwhelming) affliction" [Gesenius]; or, for "Hardly had an affliction befallen them, when the angel of His presence saved them" [Maurer]; or, as best suits the parallelism, "In all their straits there was no straitness in His goodness to them" [Houbigant], ([Jud 10:16]; [Mi 2:7]; [2Co 6:12]). [¶31] angel of his presence--literally, "of His face," that is, who stands before Him continually; Messiah ([Ex 14:19]; , ; [Pr 8:30]), language applicable to no creature ([Ex 32:34]; , ; [Nu 20:16]; Mal 3:1). [¶32] bare them--([Is 46:3], ; ; [Ex 19:4]; [De 32:11], ). [¶33] 10. vexed--grieved ([Psa 78:40]; ; [Ac 7:51]; [Ep 4:30]; [He 3:10], ). [¶34] he fought--rather, "He it was that fought," namely, the angel of His presence [Horsley], ([La 2:5]). [¶35] 11. remembered--Notwithstanding their perversity, He forgot not His covenant of old; therefore He did not wholly forsake them (Le 26:40-42, 44, 45; [Psa 106:45], ); the Jews make this their plea with God, that He should not now forsake them. [¶36] saying--God is represented, in human language, mentally speaking of Himself and His former acts of love to Israel, as His ground for pitying them notwithstanding their rebellion. [¶37] sea--Red Sea. [¶38] shepherd--Moses; or if the Hebrew be read plural, "shepherds," Moses, Aaron, and the other leaders (so [Psa 77:20]). [¶39] put ... Spirit ... within him--Hebrew, "in the inward parts of him," that is, Moses; or it refers to the flock, "in the midst of his people" ([Nu 11:17], ; [Ne 9:20]; [Hag 2:5]). [¶40] 12. The right hand of Moses was but the instrument; the arm of God was the real mover ([Ex 15:6]; ). [¶41] dividing the water--([Ne 9:11]; [Psa 78:13]). [¶42] 13. deep--literally, "the tossing and roaring sea." [¶43] wilderness--rather, the "open plain" [Horsley], wherein there is no obstacle to cause a horse in its course the danger of stumbling. [¶44] 14. As a beast ... rest--image from a herd led "down" from the hills to a fertile and well-watered "valley" ([Psa 23:2]); so God's Spirit "caused Israel to rest" in the promised land after their weary wanderings.