--- title: "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible" author: "Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown" languages: [en] shelf: "Commentaries" section: 375 of 927 url: https://scriptura.si/works/jamieson-fausset-brown-commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/375/ cite: "Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, section 375. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/jamieson-fausset-brown-commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/375/" --- # 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. ## 375. Isaiah · 78 of 79 Source: https://scriptura.si/works/jamieson-fausset-brown-commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/375/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/jamieson-fausset-brown-commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/375/#p-N [¶0] trembleth at ... word--([2Ki 22:11], ; [Ezr 9:4]). The spiritual temple of the heart, though not superseding the outward place of worship, is God's favorite dwelling ([Joh 14:23]). In the final state in heaven there shall be "no temple," but "the Lord God" Himself ([Re 21:22]). [¶1] 3. God loathes even the sacrifices of the wicked ([Is 1:11]; [Pr 15:8]; ). [¶2] is as if--Lowth not so well omits these words: "He that killeth an ox (presently after) murders a man" (as in [Eze 23:39]). But the omission in the Hebrew of "is as if"--increases the force of the comparison. Human victims were often offered by the heathen. [¶3] dog's neck--an abomination according to the Jewish law ([De 23:18]); perhaps made so, because dogs were venerated in Egypt. He does not honor this abomination by using the word "sacrifice," but uses the degrading term, "cut off a dog's neck" ([Ex 13:13]; ). Dogs as unclean are associated with swine ([Mt 7:6]; [2Pe 2:22]). [¶4] oblation--unbloody: in antithesis to "swine's blood" ([Is 65:4]). [¶5] burneth--Hebrew, "he who offereth as a memorial oblation" ([Le 2:2]). [¶6] they have chosen--opposed to the two first clauses of [Is 66:4]: "as they have chosen their own ways, &c., so I will choose their delusions. [¶7] 4. delusions--([2Th 2:11]), answering to "their own ways" ([Is 66:3]; so [Pr 1:31]). However, the Hebrew means rather "vexations," "calamities," which also the parallelism to "fears" requires; "choose their calamities" means, "choose the calamities which they thought to escape by their own ways." [¶8] their fears--the things they feared, to avert which their idolatrous "abominations" ([Is 66:3]) were practised. [¶9] I called ... none ... answer--(See on [Is 65:12]; [Is 65:24]; [Jr 7:13]). [¶10] did ... chose--not only did the evil deed, but did it deliberately as a matter of choice ([Ro 1:32]). "They chose that in which I delighted not"; therefore, "I will choose" that in which they delight not, the "calamities" and "fears" which they were most anxious to avert. [¶11] before mine eyes--(See on [Is 65:3]). [¶12] 5. tremble at ... word--the same persons as in [Is 66:2], the believing few among the Jews. [¶13] cast you out for my name's sake--excommunicate, as if too polluted to worship with them ([Is 65:5]). So in Christ's first sojourn on earth ([Mt 10:22]; [Joh 9:22], ; ; ). So it shall be again in the last times, when the believing shall be few ([Lu 18:8]). [¶14] Let the Lord be glorified--the mocking challenge of the persecutors, as if their violence towards you was from zeal for God. "Let the Lord show Himself glorious," namely, by manifesting Himself in your behalf; as the parallelism to, "He shall appear to your joy," requires (as in [Is 5:19]; compare [Is 28:15]; ). So again Christ on the cross ([Mt 27:42], ). [¶15] appear to your joy--giving you "joy" instead of your "rebuke" ([Is 25:8], ). [¶16] 6. God, from Jerusalem and His "temple," shall take vengeance on the enemy ([Eze 43:1-8]; [Zec 12:2], ; , ). The abrupt language of this verse marks the suddenness with which God destroys the hostile Gentile host outside: as [Is 66:5] refers to the confounding of the unbelieving Jews. [¶17] voice of noise--that is, the Lord's loud-sounding voice ([Psa 68:33]; [29:3-9]; [1Th 4:16]). [¶18] 7. she--Zion. [¶19] Before ... travailed ... brought forth--The accession of numbers, and of prosperity to her, shall be sudden beyond all expectation and unattended with painful effort ([Is 54:1], [4, 5]). Contrast with this case of the future Jewish Church the travail-pains of the Christian Church in bringing forth "a man child" ([Re 12:2], ). A man child's birth is in the East a matter of special joy, while that of a female is not so; therefore, it here means the manly sons of the restored Jewish Church, the singular being used collectively for the plural: or the many sons being regarded as one under Messiah, who shall then be manifested as their one representative Head. [¶20] 8. earth--rather, to suit the parallelism, "is a country (put for the people in it) brought forth in one day?" [Lowth]. In English Version it means, The earth brings forth its productions gradually, not in one day ([Mr 4:28]). [¶21] at once--In this case, contrary to the usual growth of the nations by degrees, Israel starts into maturity at once. [¶22] for--rather, "is a nation born at once, that Zion has, so soon as she travailed, brought forth?" [Maurer]. [¶23] 9. cause to bring forth, and shut--rather, "Shall I who beget, restrain the birth?" [Lowth], ([Is 37:3]; [Ho 13:13]); that is, Shall I who have begun, not finish My work of restoring Israel? ([1Sa 3:12]; [Ro 11:1]; [Php 1:6]). [¶24] shut--(compare [Re 3:7], ). [¶25] 10. love ... mourn for her--([Psa 102:14], 17, 20; ). [¶26] 11. suck--([Is 60:5], ; ; ). [¶27] abundance--Hebrew, "the ray-like flow of her opulence," that is, with the milk spouting out from her full breasts (answering to the parallel, "breast of her consolations") in ray-like streams [Gesenius]. [¶28] 12. extend--I will turn peace (prosperity) upon her, like a river turned in its course [Gesenius]. Or, "I will spread peace over her as an overflowing river" [Barnes], ([Is 48:18]). [¶29] flowing stream--as the Nile by its overflow fertilizes the whole of Egypt. [¶30] borne upon ... sides--(See on [Is 60:4]). [¶31] her ... her--If "ye" refers to the Jews, translate, "ye shall be borne upon their sides ... their knees," namely, those of the Gentiles, as in [Is 49:22]; and as "suck" ([Is 60:16]) refers to the Jews sucking the Gentile wealth. However, English Version gives a good sense: The Jews, and all who love Jehovah ([Is 66:10]), "shall suck, and be borne" by her as a mother. [¶32] 13. mother--([Is 49:15]). [¶33] comforteth--([Is 40:1], 2). [¶34] 14. bones--which once were "dried up" by the "fire" of God's wrath ([La 1:13]), shall live again ([Pr 3:8]; ; [Eze 37:1], &c.). [¶35] flourish ... herb--([Ro 11:15-24]). [¶36] known toward--manifested in behalf of. [¶37] 15. ([Is 9:5]; [Psa 50:3]; [Ha 3:5]; [2Th 1:8]; [2Pe 3:7]). [¶38] chariots ... whirlwind--([Jr 4:13]). [¶39] render--as the Hebrew elsewhere ([Job 9:13]; [Psa 78:38]) means to "allay" or "stay wrath." Maurer translates it so here: He stays His anger with nothing but fury," &c.; nothing short of pouring out all His fiery fury will satisfy His wrath. [¶40] fury--"burning heat" [Lowth], to which the parallel, "flames of fire," answers. [¶41] 16. Rather, "With fire will Jehovah judge, and with His sword (He will judge) all flesh." The parallelism and collocation of the Hebrew words favor this ([Is 65:12]). [¶42] all flesh--that is, all who are the objects of His wrath. The godly shall be hidden by the Lord in a place of safety away from the scene of judgment ([Is 26:20], ; [Psa 31:20]; [1Th 4:16], ). [¶43] 17. in ... gardens--Hebrew and the Septuagint rather require, "for (entering into) gardens," namely, to sacrifice there [Maurer]. [¶44] behind one tree--rather, "following one," that is, some idol or other, which, from contempt, he does not name [Maurer]. Vitringa, &c., think the Hebrew for "one," Ahhadh, to be the name of the god; called Adad (meaning One) in Syria (compare [Ac 17:23]). The idol's power was represented by inclined rays, as of the sun shining on the earth. Gesenius translates, "following one," namely, Hierophant ("priest"), who led the rest in performing the sacred rites.