George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Isaiah 28:26
God. From him proceeds every useful invention. The pagans attributed the discovery of corn, &c., to their idols.
God. From him proceeds every useful invention. The pagans attributed the discovery of corn, &c., to their idols.
Verse Isaiah 28:26. _FOR HIS GOD DOTH INSTRUCT HIM_] All nations have agreed in attributing agriculture, the most useful and the most necessary of all sciences, to the invention and to the suggestions...
FOR HIS GOD DOTH INSTRUCT HIM ... - Margin, ‘He bindeth it in such sort as his God doth teach him.’ The more correct idea is conveyed in the text. The word יסרו _yis__e__rô_, properly means, he instr...
3. THE SIX WOES OF THE PROPHET, JUDGMENT RUINS AND RESTORATION GLORIES TO COME (28-35) CHAPTER 28 The First Woe and the Message of Assurance 1. _Ephraim addressed (Isaiah 28:1)_ 2. _Jerusalem equall...
THE HUSBANDMAN ADAPTS HIS METHODS TO THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF EACH CASE. This parable may perhaps not have been spoken to the same audience as Isaiah 28:7, but there is no valid reason for denying it to I...
FOR HIS GOD, &C. Render: "For One hath instructed him in the right course; his God doth teach him". GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4....
Ploughing is followed by sowing....
A parable derived from husbandry. The motive of its insertion in this place was probably the different treatment meted out to Samaria and to Jerusalem. The precise point of the analogy is somewhat unc...
All this is done in obedience to an inherited, almost instinctive, wisdom, which rests ultimately on Divine inspiration. See Isaiah 28:29; and Sir 7:15 ("husbandry which the Most High hath ordained")....
GIVE YE EAR, &C.— We have here the fourth member of this section, in which this severe judgment of God denounced in the preceding verses, is defended by a parable taken from agriculture, wherein the p...
2. STABILITY TEXT: Isaiah 28:14-29 14 Wherefore hear the word of Jehovah, ye scoffers, that rule this people that is in Jerusalem: 15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and...
For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him. FOR HIS GOD DOTH INSTRUCT HIM TO DISCRETION - in the due rules of husbandry. God first taught it to man ()....
This chapter must be assigned (Isaiah 28:1) to a date prior to the capture of Samaria by the Assyrians (722 b.c.) and fall of the northern kingdom. 1-6. Samaria's luxury and self-indulgence pave the...
The first parable is about the way that the farmer prepares the soil to receive seed. Once he has ploughed the field, he does not need to repeat the action. • To plough the field may seem to be a pai...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 28 The next section of the Book of Isaiah is from Chapter 28 to Chapter 33. These Cha...
FOR HIS GOD DOTH INSTRUCT HIM TO DISCRETION... — Better, as in the margin, with a slight variation, _He treateth each as is fitting, his God instructing him._ The prophet looks on the skill of the til...
וְ יִסְּרֹ֥ו לַ † מִּשְׁפָּ֖ט אֱלֹהָ֥יו יֹורֶֽנּוּ׃
BOOK 3 PROPHECIES FROM THE ACCESSION OF HEZEKIAH TO THE DEATH OF SARGON 727-705 B.C. THE prophecies with which we have been engaged (Chapter s 2-10:4) fall either before or during the great Assyrian...
TRUTH THE ONLY REFUGE Isaiah 28:14-29 In the beginning of Hezekiah's reign the Jewish leaders had made an alliance with Assyria, on whom they relied to protect them against any and all foes. But the...
Here begins the third and last circle of the first division of the book. It consists of a series of prophecies concerning the chosen people and the world. In this chapter we have a graphic revelation...
The chapter ends very graciously, in showing the Church, under the similitude of the husbandman, how the Lord takes care of his household. And as Jesus hath sweetly set forth the same blessed truths,...
26._His God instructeth and teacheth him what is right. _From whom did the husbandman learn these things but from God? If they are so well educated and taught in the smallest matters, what ought we to...
Chapter 28 sets before us the first elements of these final scenes in the history of this wonderful people. The scourge comes from the north. Ephraim is invaded as by an overflowing torrent, by a temp...
FOR HIS GOD DOTH INSTRUCT HIM TO DISCRETION, [AND] DOTH TEACH HIM. God gives the husbandman instruction and discretion how to sow his seed, at what time, and in a proper place; for this refers to what...
For his God doth instruct him to discretion, [and] doth teach him. Ver. 26. _For his God doth instruct him to discretion._] Being a better tutor to him than any _Varro de agricultura, Cato de re rust...
_For his God doth instruct him_ The art of husbandry is so necessary for the support of human life, that all men have ascribed its original to God as the inventor and ordainer of it. _The Most High ha...
For his God doth instruct him to discretion, to do his work with understanding, AND DOTH TEACH HIM. It was God who taught the rules of husbandry to man, Genesis 3:23....
THE CHASTISEMENT OF THE LORD OF HOSTS...
FOR HIS GOD DOTH INSTRUCT HIM TO DISCRETION: Or, and he bindeth it in such sort as God doth teach him...
23-29 The husbandman applies to his calling with pains and prudence, in all the works of it according to their nature. Thus the Lord, who has given men this wisdom, is wonderful in counsel, and excel...
The sense of the words thus rendered is this, All this he performeth by that discretion which God hath put into him; and therefore be assured that God will order all his affairs with judgment, and wil...
Isaiah 28:26 instructs H3384 (H8686) judgment H4941 God H430 teaches H3256 (H8765) For his God -...
THE PARABLE OF THE FARMER AND HIS CROPS (ISAIAH 28:23). The point behind this parable is that the wise farmer thinks carefully about what he is doing and does not get bogged down in one activity. He l...
CONTENTS: Woe of Ephriam due to drunkenness. Prediction of Assyrian captivity of Ephriam. Ephriam's fate a warning to Judah. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The glorious beauty and the plenty of the lan...
Isaiah 28:1. _The crown of pride._ Sebaste, the ancient Samaria, is situated on a long mount of an oval figure, having first a fruitful valley, and then a circle of hills running round about it. _Maun...
_For his God doth instruct him_ CHASTISING WITH JUDGMENT More literally and with better significance, “And he chastiseth it with judgment; his God doth instruct him. ” This judgment is shown in two...
_The ploughman_ THE PARABLE OF THE PLOUGHMAN AND THE THRESHER 1. The general drift of the parable is obvious. The husbandman does not forever vex and wound the tender bosom of the earth with the kee...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 28:23 God’s dealings with his people, though “strange” (v. Isaiah 28:21), are wise. He can be trusted in everything....
SECTION VII. RENEWED DENUNCIATIONS OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH (CH. 28-31.) EXPOSITION ISAIAH 28:1 A WARNING TO SAMARIA. The prophet has now east his eagle glance
Chapter 28. Now the prophet turns to the local present issues. He is now... he's gone off down the road to the end of things. Now he comes back and he begins to speak of the Northern Kingdom, the majo...
Daniel 1:17; Exodus 28:3; Exodus 31:3; Exodus 36:2; James 1:17;...