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The Pulpit Commentary — Isaiah — Volume 1
George Rawlinson [1812-1902] · 527,316 words · 579 reading sections
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men as beautiful, majestic, or even as" comely" (ch. liii. 2). But at his second coming it will be different.. St. John the Divine describes him as he saw him in vision: "In the midst of the seven candlesticks was one like unto the Son of man, clothed with n c:i.rment down to the feet, and girt about the paps with a…
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II. THE ATTITUDE OP' PRAYER AND TBUBT, "0 Jehove.h, be gracioue unto uel For thee ho.ve we wo.ited.'' It is the o.ttitude of calm =fidena; it is the mood in which things disto.nt o.nd unseen o.re realized. Here the prophet sees what is improbable to the eye of worldly calculation-the downfall of the proudest power of t…
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"fumaoe in JeI'U83lem" (eh. xxxi, 19). And all the immoral and the unprincipled, the heedless and the worldly, feel themselves as fuel for his wrath-they whom the con- tinual. returns of the Word preached do not alter, so that their old sins remain fhm entire, and unbattered, the baseness of their inclinations uncha…
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be theirs who hunger and thirst after righteousness, who have fixed their minds upon an Object, which still invites the moat boundless and unlimited appetite. The nobler aeneea are never weary of exercise upon objects which delight them. We rlo not surfeit upon noble music, nor do rare pictures cloy. The desires of the…
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There is much ofl1e&uty in this world. And by Christ Jesus God created the worlds, f;() that he is the Archetype of all beauty. Everything lovely wa.s first a thought of Christ before it became a fact in life. These eyes of ours have seen glorious spectacles: the sun rising to nm his race ; the tender greens and pur…
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loathsome, thing in God's eight: how much more eo those aggravated forms of it in which man wantonly injures and ruins hie fellow-man I III. TnAT IT IB 0EBTAIN TO MEET WITH BETBIBUTION ANRWERmG TO THE OFFENCE. We know: 1. '!'bat impenitent sin will be followed by tbejudgments of a righteous God. '!'he Divine "woe" poi…
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Vers. 5, 6.-.A wise nation (Ohwrch). These verses supply us with three features by which a nation or Church that is possessed of true wisdom will be characterized. L A PERV A.DING SENSE OF GoD-of his greatness, his power, his righteousness. ."The Lord is exalted; he d welleth on high; he hath filled Zion with judgme…
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Vera. 10-16.-In the presence of the Holy One. The great question which, in a ~omewhat different form from that of the text, Balak proposed to Balaam (Micah vi. 6) 1s one that has ulways stirred the hearts of men everywhere and in all ages. We must find an .answer to it if we are to enjoy any "rest unto our souls." I…
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Ver. 17.-" The King in hu beauty," "Thine eyes she.11 see the King in his beauty," Of this we may take- r. THE CONTEMI'ORARY VIEW, Those who heard these words from Isaiah 'e lips or read them from the roll on which he wrote them would naturally think of Hezekiah. But in what aspect would they think of him as clothed…
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of God now ea;tended to us in Jesus Christ; reaching to those who have gone furthc"t, in presumptuoll8 sin, in vice, in crime, in unspee.ke.ble enormities; extending to thone who have sinned age.inst the cloe.rest light and tho most gracious influences; touching those who ho.ve gone to the very verge of human life: …
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6Upplies for every imaginable need, even as the broad river and outstretching etreame provide verdure and grain over all the surface of the well-watered la.nd, even ae the atfrighted and fleeing army leaves Rrey which even the halt and the lame will be strong enough to take. In the day of Gods blessing there will be…
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concentrated on to-day. To-day is ours. To-night is not ours. To-morrow is not ours, No man has any to-morrow until God gives it to him, and then he must call it to-day. We cannot grasp a whole life; we can grasp the duties of to-day. What" grace" is for a long and changeful life we do not know, we cannot know. God off…
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Ver. 14.-TI"no can stand the testi'Tl1Jfiru., The terms" devouring fire" 11 everlast. ing burnings," do not mean hell; they mean God in visible, material judgments, euoh as may be ~ymbolized by the destruction of the Assyrian army; and such as the pre- sence of that army became to the people of Jerusalem. The appeal …
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when the invader is in the land. God makes no new lot, no fresh circumstances, for the good man. He does not promise any ma.n that he will alt,er his einthly conditions, or altogether relieve him of his troubles. He lifts the good man up a.hove his earth-scenes, by "strengthening him with strength in the soul," making …
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thought of the Jews, and the great underlying idel\ of the Mosaic revelation. But this verse- gives us most material help by setting out a threefold relation of God to men in the thoocrACy. I. Goo Is THE LAW-MAKER. " The Lord is our Lawgiver." Thie is true in two senses. I. God gave the formal laws from Mount Sinai, w…
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EXPOSITION. CHAPTER XXXIV. the feelings of the prophet are excited, he shrinks from no hyperbole. Here he repre- Oh, mi.v. and xxxv. are generally re- sents the blood of God's enemies as shed cognized as constituting a distinct prophecy, in such torrents that mountains are melted complete in itself, and only sligh…
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Jerusalem WA@ destroved, Rnd the people oontmsted with the "yenr" of hie reoom- led nway captive hy NebuchRdnezzar (Pa. 11enso, to show how infinite ia hie moroy, cxn:vii. 7; Obnd. 10-14; Le.in. iv. 21, 22; how short-lived, compa.rl\tively speaking, Ezek. xxxv. 10-13). In the present passage his anger. Mr. Oheyne we…
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or "porcupine." Animals the.t delight in victims in their sleep. The word is pro- solitude ore certainly monnt, but the pe.r- bably o derivative from leilah, night, and tioule.r species is, more or less, matter of designates" the spirit of the night" -a mis- conjecture. He shall stretch out upon it ; chievous being, wh…
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unto us smooth things" is the universal demand, or, at any rate, the universal desire, There is oonsiderable danger of preachers yielding to the wishes of their heaters in this respect; since it is always pleasant to be popular, and disagreeable to be thought to take a pleasure in hurting people's feelings. But the …
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vere. 1-17.-7'7ie sins and punish-nt of Edom, The E«fomitcs appear in the blackest colours in the descriptions of the prophets. And in this oracle their punish- ment is represented in the horrible desolation of their land. I. THEIR ems. Their cruelty is above all stigmatized. At the sie…
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be rnisconccil'ed. To represent God's indignation against sin as the chief element in his character is essentially false; to represent his love as absorbing or eclipsing his hatred of sin and his intention to punish the guilty is also, if not equally, false. The same lips which opened to invite every weary wan<lercr…
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nese and disloyalty in tho ChrieUan life. But men's hearts ore hard, their understanding is veiled so that they do not see. 1. They delude themselves with the thought that, though other men suffer the penalty of their sin or folly, they will, in some way, escape. 2. Or they deceive themselves by holding up before thei…
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Xations gain power for the sake of others; natious are crushed and humbled for the. sake or ol11crs. Illustration of this point may run along thl'ee lines. l. A ll!AN's OR A NATION'S GENIUS IS NOT FOR SELF, 11 The earth must hear," and know about it. All gift~ are trus~. II. A MAN'S OR A NATION'S SUFFERINGS ARE NOT …
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tlie circumstance that Neoptolemus was punished in the same way in which he hnd sinned. He had murdered at the altar, and at the altar he was murdered." Show bo,v natural thfl' retaliatory idea seems to children. 'l'he old sentiment still lingers in men's minds, so that we have great satisfaction in hearing of cases…
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EXPOSITION. CHAPTER XXXV. the great deliverance of the Church from the power of its enemies. The clause is a V01'8. 1-10.-THE GLORY OF TBB LAST touch of realism intruded into a prolonged TDacs. On the punil!hment of God's enemies metaphor or allegory, and is quite in the . will follow the peace, prosperity, and glo…
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God will come to their old, will avenge them o.11 placeB. Shl\11 be grass with reeds and of their spiritual enemies, rewe.rd their rushes; i.e. "shall be a. luxuriant vegota.- efforts to serve him, o.nd in the end " ee.ve" tion, like that on the banks of the Nile" them, He will oome e.nd save you; re.ther, (comp. vere.…
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HOMILEl'ICS. Yers. 1-10.-111.e glory qf the Church not tempo1·al greatness, but spiritual perfection: Amid the we:ilth of motaphor which Isaiah employs to depict tho final. prosperity, glory, and ha.ppiness of the Church, it is remarkable how little use is made of any images dram1 from the conditions or circumstances …
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that David thought he spoke neither impropriety nor nonsense, in a strong line, when he en.id, 'even the valleys break forth into singing.'" It is II eoog of praise a.nd thanl<s- giving, a song of joy and triumph in the "glory of Jehovah," the ma.nifestatione of his creative and renewing powers, the liberal effusions o…
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possible to give "cheer." instead-to record Goo's great deliverances t.o ourselves, and tell of all his wondrous works. Thus we may put the brightness of hope into the sky, and help to chase the dark clouds away. "Say." We have all the faculty of quickly tcl.ling bad news ; let us tell the "good news" of God's graciou…
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of gro.teful pmiso to the Divine Author of all being, to the bountiful Giver of every good and perfect gift. The mouth will be full of song bec-a.uae the heart will be full of thankful remembro.nces. III. STnENOTH 01" SOUL. "Then shall the lame leap ae an hart." Instead of the moral feebleness and incapacity which sho…
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Vel'8. 8, 9.-TM way to Zfrin. 'l'he outward incidents of the Jewish people have a singularly close correspondence with the inward experiencea of human souls in Christian times. The captivity in Egypt and also that in Babylon find their analogue in the et.ate of spiritual bondage ,vhicb is the constant penalty of sin…
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Ver, 10,-WitMn the gates. If the two preceding verses may be regarded as descriptive of the Christian pilgrimage, the text may appropriately be treated ae pictorial of the heavenly city in which that journey ends, The language of this verse suggests tous- 1. THE DIBTINOUJSIIING FEATURE OF THOSE WHO ARE ADMITTED. They …
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Ver. 3.-0heer for the faint-hearted. This term may well be applied either to the small remnant left in Judma., or to the small company that represented the exiled nation on the return to Jerusalem. The cheer comes through the assurance of God's direct and gracious relations with them. Faint-hearted ones can only be st…
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exultation." But, for spiritual readers, there milst be a second and further meaning, for the language too well suits that time when "the blind saw, the lame walked, the lepers were cleaneed, the cleo.f heard, and the dead were raised." Reading the mission of IJhriet from this prophecy as a text, we note- I. CHRIST RE…
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Yer. 10.-Tl,e rcfllrn of the ransomed. "Whoever is faruiliat• with the bold and ru~crnificcnt character _of_ the prophetic style will not deem the liberation from the .Cllp- tmty an ernnt to? trivial to be predicted in the language here employed." "Minor an~ tempor~ry dehYernnces are not only emblems of the great salva…
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'l'RlUIB PA.GB Conditions of Divine Acceptance 28 "The Vision of Isaiah which he saw" 8 Reasoning with God about our Sins ... 28 God's Arraignment of his People 8 Unrighteousness a Nation's Curse 29 The Prophet's Enforcement of God's Hope in God's Refining9 ... SO Charge 9 The Outward Form of Religion, with- CHAPTER I…
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TltBIIB PJ.G! TJIEKE PAG-'R No Friith, no Fixity 136 Spiritual Empire ..• 175 The F.slo.blishit1g Power of Fo.ith 136 The Wonderful Lord 175 Bio o.od Duty in Regard to "Signs" ... 137 Chief Cour.sela of Obrist 176 The Presence of God 138 Christ in Relation to Time ... Yi6 'Divine Retribution· 139 Christian Peace ... 17…
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OHAPTER XVII. TBBHB FAOa TIIBIIB P£08 Political Commotion regarded as Divine Nattonal RepontCLnce mCLy come too late Judgment 825 to aver~ National Ruin 292 Temptation to trust in Diviners 326 The Rock of our Strength .. . 292 The Withholding of God's Gifts mo.king Damascus and Israel 293 Man's Woe 326 The Prophet on …
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Tlio Cnll to Continuous Trust 429 Beauty, Wisdom, and Strength for 118 Tlio Level Pnth of tho Good Man 429 in God 465 Atlitnde in 'rimes of Judgmont 430 The .Moral Deterioration of Self- Full Allcgia.nce to Jehovah 432 indulgent Habits 4GG Prayer.forced by Trouble ... 432 Need for the Reiteration of Truth 466 Mockers …
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