George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Isaiah 6:8
For us. Hence arises a proof of the plurality of persons. (Calmet) --- Send me. Thus Isaias was an evangelical and apostolical prophet. (St. Jerome) (Worthington)
For us. Hence arises a proof of the plurality of persons. (Calmet) --- Send me. Thus Isaias was an evangelical and apostolical prophet. (St. Jerome) (Worthington)
THE VOICE OF THE LORD - Hebrew: “The voice of Yahweh.” He had before been addressed by one of the seraphim. WHOM SHALL I SEND, AND WHO WILL GO FOR US? - The change of number here, from the singular to...
CHAPTER 6 The Prophet's Vision and New Commission 1. _The time of the vision (Isaiah 6:1)_ 2. _Jehovah of hosts (Isaiah 6:2)_ 3. _The prophet's woe (Isaiah 6:5)_ 4. The cleansing ...
ISAIAH 6. THE CALL OF ISAIAH. This chapter contains Isaiah's own account of his call to the prophetic office. Presumably it was written down some time after the event, but the interval need not have b...
VOICE. See the Structure (p. 980). This is the voice from the Temple concerning the "scattering", corresponding with Isaiah 40:3; Isaiah 40:6, which is the voice from the wilderness concerning the "ga...
Now for the first time Isaiah hears the voice of God, the purification of his lips having fitted him for personal converse with Jehovah and spiritual sympathy with His purposes. _who will go for us?_...
DISCOURSE: 867 A MISSIONARY SPIRIT DESCRIBED Isaiah 6:8. _I heard the nice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send? and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me_. IN former ages, God was we...
ALSO I HEARD THE VOICE OF THE LORD— We have here the _third_ part of this vision, comprehending, first, a trial of the disposition of the prophet, now sanctified, with his reply to the Lord, in the pr...
THE PROPHET SEES THE WORLD Isaiah 6:8-13 a. THE COMMISSION Isaiah 6:8-10 TEXT: Isaiah 6:8-10 8 And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here...
Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. WHOM SHALL I SEND, AND WHO WILL GO FOR US? The change of number indicates the...
6:8 me. (a-27) The emphasis is rather on 'send' than on 'me.'...
FOR US] the plural in the mouth of God as in Genesis 1:26; Genesis 3:22; Genesis 11:7. Jehovah consults with the angels around His throne; similarly in Micaiah's vision ...
THE PROPHET'S CALL This c., which recounts the prophet's call and commission, would stand first in a chronological arrangement of the book. The opening words remind us of the vision of Micaiah (1 King...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS ISAIAH DECLARES HOW GOD’S PEOPLE SHOULD BE LIVING ISAIAH CHAPTER S 1 TO 9 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 6 GOD CALLS ISAIAH V1 In the year when King Uzziah died, I s...
Isaiah is now fit to answer the call of our God, who is so holy....
ALSO I HEARD THE VOICE OF THE LORD. — The work of cleansing has made the prophet one of the heavenly brotherhood. He is as an angel called _to_ an angel’s work. (Comp. Judges 2:1; Judges 5:23; Malachi...
וָ אֶשְׁמַ֞ע אֶת ־קֹ֤ול אֲדֹנָי֙ אֹמֵ֔ר אֶת
CHAPTER IV ISAIAH'S CALL AND CONSECRATION 740 B.C. written 735? or 727? Isaiah 6:1 IT has been already remarked that in chapter 6 we should find no other truths than those which have been unfolded...
A CALL TO HEROIC SERVICE Isaiah 6:1-13 Kings die; Jesus lives. See John 12:41. We are here reminded of Acts 22:17-18. How great the contrast between the worship of these seraphim in the Unseen-Holy...
We now begin the second part of the first circle of prophecy, which contains the prophecies during the reigns of Jotham and Ahaz. When Uzziah died, Isaiah was called to the exercise of a larger minist...
Here, if I mistake not, the subject takes a different turn. Isaiah in the former part, relates what he had seen and heard in a special relation to himself, and the Church, to whom he ministered: but h...
_‘SEND ME’_ ‘Here am I; send me.’ Isaiah 6:8 These words are Isaiah’s response to his Divine call to the prophetic office. It was an extraordinary call to an extraordinary mission. Through the deep...
8._Afterwards I heard the voice of the Lord. _The Prophet now begins to discourse about the design of this vision, why God appeared to him with such glorious majesty, in order to ordain him anew as a...
But it was in the counsels of God that His presence should be established in glory in the midst of His people, and this will be accomplished in Christ at the end of the age. Hence the testimony of the...
ALSO I HEARD THE VOICE OF THE LORD,.... The Targum renders it, the voice of the Word of the Lord, as if it was the second Person, the Word, that was heard speaking; but it seems rather to be the voice...
Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here [am] I; send me. Ver. 8. _Whom shall I send?_] "Lay hands upon no man rashly," but with delibe...
_Also I heard the voice of the Lord_ We have here the third part of this vision, comprehending, 1st, A trial of the disposition of the prophet, now sanctified, with his reply to the Lord, in this vers...
THE MISSION OF THE PROPHET...
Also I heard the voice of the Lord, of the All-powerful, the great Ruler of the universe, SAYING, WHOM SHALL I SEND? the call being for volunteers to proclaim the atonement set forth in the vision jus...
HERE AM I: _ Heb._ behold me...
1-8 In this figurative vision, the temple is thrown open to view, even to the most holy place. The prophet, standing outside the temple, sees the Divine Presence seated on the mercy-seat, raised over...
WHOM SHALL I SEND, AND WHO WILL GO FOR US, to deliver the following message? The change of the number, I and US, is very remarkable; and both being meant of one and the same Lord, do sufficiently inti...
Isaiah 6:8 heard H8085 (H8799) voice H6963 Lord H136 saying H559 (H8802) send H7971 (H8799) go...
YAHWEH'S CALL TO ISAIAH (ISAIAH 6:5). As Isaiah stood, or possibly prostrated himself, before the wonderful vision of resplendent holiness, it was all too much for him as he was made aware of his own...
Isaiah 6:1 I. Consider what the prophet saw. He sees Jehovah as Ruler, Governor, King; He is upon a throne, high and lifted up. It is the throne of absolute sovereignty: of resistless, questionless su...
Isaiah 6:5 These verses teach us the essentials of true worship and of acceptable approach to God. And they seem to indicate these essentials as threefold, involving: I. A sense of personal wretchedn...
Isaiah 6:6 There must be a relation between prayer and action: between prayer, which is the soul of the inward life; and action, which is the substance of the outward. I. Prayer is the preparation fo...
Isaiah 6:8 I. God often chooses marked seasons for His greatest self-manifestations; makes individual souls associate eventful days with their own more personal history. It was so with Isaiah. In tha...
Isaiah 6:8 I. This, in all seeming, was the thankless office to which Isaiah was called, to be heard, to be listened to, by some with contempt, by others with seeming respect, and to leave things in t...
Isaiah 6:1. In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with...
Isaiah 6:1. _In the year that King Uzziah died_ You remember him, that leprous king, that king who had thrust himself into the priests' office, and was smitten of leprosy, and shut up in a separate h...
CONTENTS: Isaiah's transforming vision and his new commission. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: Those who are to teach others the knowledge of God must themselves have the vision of God. Those a...
The excellence of the prophet's labours during the war with Pekah and Rezin, seems to be the cause why this vision occupies but a secondary place. God gave it to console the church on the death of so...
_Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send?_ MESSENGERS WANTED I. THE PERSON WANTED, as described in the questions, “Whom shall I send? Who will go for Us?” The person wanted is v...
_Then said I, Woe is me!--_ THE MORAL HISTORY OF A RISING SOUL; OR, THE WAY UP FROM DEPRAVITY TO HOLINESS Whilst holiness is the normal, depravity is the actual state of man. A restoration to his s...
_In the year that King Uzziah died I saw also the Lord_ THE STORY OF THE PROPHET’S CALL--WHY INSERTED HERE Why the narrative of the prophet’s call was not, as in the cases of Jeremiah and Ezekiel, a...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 6:8 WHOM SHALL I SEND, AND WHO WILL GO FOR US? Compare “let us make man” (Genesis 1:26). God could be addressing himself, as one God existing in three Persons
VOLUNTEER SERVICE Isaiah 6:8. _Then said I, Here am I, send me_. This is a chapter of autobiography. Here is disclosed the secret of the wonderful energy with which for more than half a century Isaia...
THE SERVICE OF THE SERAPHIM Isaiah 6:1; Isaiah 6:5. _I saw also the Lord, &c._ In that perfect prayer which our Lord bequeathed to His disciples we are taught to ask that God’s will may be done in ea...
THE MORAL HISTORY OF A RISING SOUL Isaiah 6:5. _Then said I, Woe is me, &c._ Whilst holiness is the normal, depravity is the actual state of man. A restoration to that spiritual condition is his prof...
THE PROPHET’S CALL Isaiah 6:1. _In the year that King Uzziah died, &c._ We have here the history of Isaiah’s call to his great life-work. Perhaps in a modern biography this chapter would have been pl...
SECTION III. ISAIAH'S VISION OF GOD UPON HIS THRONE (Isaiah 6:1.). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 6:1 THE VISION
By Chuck Smith Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Isaiah, chapter 6, as Isaiah records for us his commissioning by God for his ministry. Now you remember in chapter 1 that Isaiah tells us that his tim...
1 Kings 22:20; Acts 20:24; Acts 22:21; Acts 26:16; Acts 26:17;...
THE LORD HIGH AND LIFTED UP Isaiah 6:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There is a twofold vision suggested in the first verse of our study. "In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a t...
Who — To deliver the following message. The change of the number, I and us, is very remarkable; and both being meant of one and the same Lord, do sufficiently intimate a plurality of persons in the Go...