George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Isaiah 66:7
Before, &c. This relates to the conversion of the Gentiles, who were born as it were all on a sudden to the Church of God. (Challoner) --- Sion furnished the first preachers of the Gospel. (Haydock)
Before, &c. This relates to the conversion of the Gentiles, who were born as it were all on a sudden to the Church of God. (Challoner) --- Sion furnished the first preachers of the Gospel. (Haydock)
BEFORE SHE TRAVAILED, SHE BROUGHT FORTH - That is, Zion. The idea here is, that there would be a great and sudden increase of her numbers. Zion is here represented, as it often is, as a female (see Is...
CHAPTER 66 The Finale: The Two Classes and the Prophecy of Isaiah in a Retrospect 1. _The apostates and their wicked worship (Isaiah 66:1) _ 2. _The remnant suffering and encouraged (Isaiah 66:5) _ 3...
ISAIAH 66. Here divisions are hard to define. The theme the coming punishment of the apostates and the coming glory of the pious is pursued now on one side, now on the other. ISAIAH 66:1. AN ATTACK O...
SHE BROUGHT FORTH. This is the birth of the new nation. These are the "birth pangs" (or "sorrows") of Matthew 24:8. In Revelation 12:1; Revelation 12:2 we have one part of the type in the person of Me...
The sudden repopulation of the city by her children. The figure is taken from ch. Isaiah 49:17-21; Isaiah 54:1; the fact set forth being the instantaneous return of the exiled Israelites, by which, wi...
BEFORE SHE TRAVAILED, &C.— Another consolatory argument is here urged, to those who _reverence the word of Jehovah,_ who form the _true Sion,_ taken from the sudden and wonderful increase of the churc...
2. BIRTH OF NEW ZION TEXT: Isaiah 66:7-14 7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a manchild. 8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen Such thing...
Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child. She - ZION. Before she travailed, she brought forth. THE ACCESSION OF NUMBERS, AND OF PROSPERITY, TO H...
1. WHERE, etc.] RV 'what manner of house.. what place shall be my rest.' The v. is a strong rebuke of such as, without a really religious spirit, idly trusted in the inviolability of Zion, and the pro...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 66 The *Lord divides the ‘people of God’ into two types. There are those...
The *Lord uses picture language to emphasise an important truth. In real life, for a mother to give birth without pain cannot happen. Were it to take place, it could only be by the *Lord’s powerful ac...
BEFORE SHE TRAVAILED... — The mother, as the next verse shows, is Zion; the man-child, born at last without the travail-pangs of sorrow, is the new Israel, the true Israel of God. The same figure has...
בְּ טֶ֥רֶם תָּחִ֖יל יָלָ֑דָה בְּ טֶ֨רֶם יָבֹ֥
CHAPTER XXV A LAST INTERCESSION AND THE JUDGMENT Isaiah 63:7 through Isaiah 66:1 WE might well have thought, that with the section we have been considering the prophecy of Israel's Redemption had re...
GOD'S PEOPLE MADE A BLESSING Isaiah 66:1-14 The prophet forecasts the advent of a new day, when places and rites would be comparatively unimportant compared with the condition of the heart, Isaiah 66...
This last chapter is confessedly difficult of interpretation. In it the prophet seems to look beyond all that he has previously described, and to deal with destiny. He first announces anew the fact of...
Before (h) she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a male child. (h) Meaning, that the restoration of the church would be so sudden and contrary to all men's opin...
Perhaps the voice here spoken of, means the voice of the gospel: and the effects of it follow. Quick was the success, when the Holy Ghost came upon them that heard the voice. Jehovah inquireth whether...
7._Before she travailed, she brought forth. _Having formerly comforted believers, that they might not be discouraged by the insolence and contempt of brethren, whom he would at length punish, and havi...
Chapter 66 speaks of the judgment that introduces it, and consequently gives us more historical details. The temple is rebuilt in Jerusalem (Isaiah 66:6), but Jehovah does not own it, man alone being...
BEFORE SHE TRAVAILED, SHE BROUGHT FORTH,.... That is, Zion, as appears from the following verse: lest it should be thought that the interest of Christ would be swallowed up and lost in the destruction...
Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child. Ver. 7. _Before she travailed, she brought forth._] _Quum nondum parturiret peperit; _ understand it o...
Here begins a new paragraph of the prophet's discourse, containing a description of the sudden and great increase of the Christian Church, upon God's rejecting the Jews, and destroying their temple an...
Before she, Zion, the bride, the Church of the Lord, TRAVAILED, SHE BROUGHT FORTH; BEFORE HER PAIN CAME, SHE WAS DELIVERED OF A MAN CHILD....
THE ABOMINATIONS OF A DEAD WORSHIP AND THE BIRTH OF THE NEW CHURCH...
5-14 The prophet turns to those that trembled at God's word, to comfort and encourage them. The Lord will appear, to the joy of the humble believer, and to the confusion of hypocrites and persecutors...
The whole verse is expressive of a great and sudden salvation, which God would work for his church, like the delivery of a woman, and that of a MAN CHILD, before her travail, and _without pain_. The o...
Isaiah 66:7 labor H2342 (H8799) birth H3205 (H8804) pain H2256 came H935 (H8799) delivered H4422 ...
YAHWEH COMFORTS THOSE WHO FEAR HIM TRULY IN THE FACE OF THEIR TREATMENT BY THE FORMALISTS. HE TELLS THEM A NEW DAY IS COMING, A DAY OF GREAT CHANGE (ISAIAH 66:5). Isaiah 66:5 “Hear the word of Yahwe...
THE BIRTH OF THE NEW AGE (ISAIAH 66:6). Isaiah 66:6 ‘A voice of tumult from the city, A voice from the temple, A voice of Yahweh, Which renders recompense to his enemies.' Before she travailed s...
TRAVAILED (Isaiah 66:7); (Isaiah 66:8). (_ See Scofield) - (Micah 5:1). _...
CONTENTS: Blessings of the coming universal Kingdom. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: Following the day of Christ's vengeance the sorrows of Israel will be turned into abundant joys. All the Gen...
Isaiah 66:1. _The heaven is my throne._ This chapter applies to Isaiah's time, as well as to future times; and though the Lord rejected the impure worship of the temple, yet he would dwell with the co...
_Before she travailed, she brought forth_ THE NEW ISRAEL The predictive message of our prophet is now so far advanced that the future promised is at the door; the Church of the future is already lik...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 66:1 Though the worship of God is violated now, in the future falsehood will be judged, true worship will spread, and God will be honored forever. ⇐...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 66:7 Mother Zion gives BIRTH, effortlessly and instantly, to a new nation (see Isaiah 49:19;...
SECTION XII.—FINAL THREATENINGS AND PROMISES (Isaiah 66:1.). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 66:1 THE UNGODLY EXILES REBUKED
Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that you build unto me? and where is the place of my rest? (Isaiah 66:1) They're going to build a new te...
Galatians 4:26; Isaiah 54:1; Revelation 12:1...
Before — The whole verse is expressive of a great and sudden salvation, which God would work for his church, like the delivery of a woman, and that of a man — child, before her travail, and without pa...