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machus and Theodotion have h (xe<su) rdcvig yr\c. The word a pifabs Paul introduced from Hos. ii. 1 [i. 10]. If Israel shall have been [or have been] as numerous as the sand, a remnant [only] shall be saved, namely, from the misery of the Babylonish cap- tivity and from spiritual misery. That a remnant should re- main in the multitude of the remnant [ i.e . in a case where the body from which the remnant is taken is a multitude] is less wonderful. The Many are hardened; but the seed implies a small number, ver. 29, note. When the rebellion of Israel reaches its height, at that point salvation begins.
28. Aoyov) a thing heard , and therefore spoken , Isa. xxviii. 22. — ffwrsXuv xa/ ffwrs/Mvuv) supply, as is often necessary in He- brew, the word is, comp. Acts xxiv. 5 ; 2 Pet. i. 17 ; Heb. mnmi and jmn ji^S. The Lord guvrs XiT, will consummate His Xoyov word [decree] concerning Israel, in respect to the appointed [fixed] punishment (so that it becomes n^D, consummated, com- pleted) ; and at the same time awre/x m Xoyov, cuts short His wTord, in respect to the termination [will make a speedy termination] of the punishment (so that nvin: becomes nto, this decree be- comes consummated). The word Lord is to be supplied from the following clause ; and the word tuvreXuv may be taken either as the subject, or rather, since the article is wanting, as a part of the predicate [the Lord is about to consummate, etc.] — h hixuioavvri, npTf tjtrn Is. X. 22.
29. Ei /xr\ — u/xoiu)07)/xev) Is. i. 9, LXX., xal u [xr\ u/xoitodrj/xev. — Kpostprixz v, said before) Before the event, or before the prophecy quoted at ver. 28. — sufiauO) In 1 Samuel and in Isaiah, gafiaud is put for the Heb. word DtOY ; in all the other books it is translated rtavroxpdrwp, Ruler over all. From this circumstance there is strong ground for conjecturing, that one or perhaps several persons were employed to translate those two books, and that different persons translated the rest. And in the same first book of Sam. Scripture begins to give this title to God, although others had been formerly used as it were in its place. — Exod. xxxiv. 23. — (fnep/xa, a seed) There is denoted 1) a small number at the present time, 2) the propagation of a multitude after deliverance from captivity. — wg Zodo/x a, as Sodom) where not a single citizen escaped ; no seed was left.
30. T/, what) He returns from the digression, which he had
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