Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 25:7
The face — The covering of the face. The veil — The ignorance of God, and of the true religion, which then was upon the Gentiles, and now is upon the Jews.
The face — The covering of the face. The veil — The ignorance of God, and of the true religion, which then was upon the Gentiles, and now is upon the Jews.
Verse Isaiah 25:7. _THE FACE OF THE COVERING CAST OVER ALL PEOPLE _- "The covering that covered the face of all the peoples"] MS. _Bodl_. reads על פני כל _al peney chol_. The word פני _peney, face_,...
AND HE WILL DESTROY - Hebrew, ‘He will swallow up,’ that is, he will abolish, remove, or take away. IN THIS MOUNTAIN THE FACE OF THE COVERING - In mount Zion, or in Jerusalem. This would be done in Je...
CHAPTER 25 Israel's Praise and the Blessings of the Kingdom 1. _The praise of the delivered nation (Isaiah 25:1)_ 2. _The blessing for all nations during the Kingdom (Isaiah 25:6)_ 3. Israel rejoicin...
YAHWEH'S FEAST TO ALL NATIONS IN MOUNT ZION. Here the apocalypse is resumed. The universalism of the passage is especially noteworthy. We have here one of the most catholic passages in the entire Old...
DESTROY. swallow up, as in Isaiah 25:8. THIS MOUNTAIN: i.e. Zion (Isaiah 2:1; Isaiah 2:2; Isaiah 24:23). CAST. covered. people
This section attaches itself directly to the concluding thought of ch. 24. The feast of Isaiah 25:6 may be regarded as a coronation-festival, inaugurating the reign of Jehovah on Mount Zion (Isaiah 24...
_the face of the covering … nations_ More literally: THE SURFACE OF THE VEIL THAT VEILS ALL THE PEOPLES, AND THE COVERING THAT IS WOVEN OVER ALL THE NATIONS. The phrase "surface of the veil" is peculi...
DISCOURSE: 892 THE GOSPEL A SOURCE OF RICHEST BLESSINGS Isaiah 25:6. In this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees: of fat things fu...
AND HE WILL DESTROY, &C.— Vitringa thinks, with the Chaldee, that the _covering_ and _vail_ here spoken of mean Death; that mighty ruler, who covers the whole race of _men_ with his black garment, and...
2. JUBILATION FOR JEHOVAH'S POSTERITY TEXT: Isaiah 25:6-9 6 And in this mountain will Jehovah of hosts make unto all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full...
And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations. HE WILL DESTROY IN THIS MOUNTAIN THE FACE OF THE COVERING - image f...
25:7 destroy (k-4) Lit. 'swallow up,' as ver. 8; ch. 3.12....
COVERING] Covering the face was a token of mourning for the dead (2 Samuel 19:4); the taking away of the veil or covering is symbolically put for the destruction of death (Isaiah 25:8)....
1. THY COUNSELS, etc.] RV 'even counsels of old' (i.e. formed of old) 'in faithfulness and truth.'...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 25 A SONG TO PRAISE GOD V1 *Lord, you are my God. I will always give you great honou...
This enormous party is because of the *Lord’s gift. He has been very kind to everybody in the world. There will be no more death. That was everybody’s fate, until Jesus overcame death (see 1 Corinthia...
THE FACE OF THE COVERING CAST OVER ALL PEOPLE... — To cover the face was, in the East, a sign of mourning for the dead (2 Samuel 19:4); and to destroy that covering is to overcome death, of which it i...
וּ בִלַּע֙ בָּ † הָ֣ר הַ זֶּ֔ה...
CHAPTER XXX THE RESURRECTION Isaiah 26:14; Isaiah 25:6 GRANTED the pardon, the justice, the Temple and the God, which the returning exiles now enjoyed, the possession of these only makes more painf...
BOOK 5 PROPHECIES NOT RELATING TO ISAIAH'S TIME In the first thirty-nine Chapter s of the Book of Isaiah-the half which refers to the prophet's own career and the politics contemporary with that - we...
SORROW TURNED TO GLADNESS Isaiah 25:1-12 Here is a song of thanksgiving at the fall of Babylon. When she fell, a sigh of relief passed over the whole world, and strong, terrible nations over which sh...
Immediately following this terrible description is a prophecy which, in the form of praise, declares the activity of Jehovah. The song first offers praise for judgment both in its procedure, as it des...
And he will destroy on this mountain (i) the face of the covering cast over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations. (i) Meaning, that ignorance and blindness, by which we are kept b...
_Tied. He will open their eyes to the truth of the gospel. They shall be no longer as criminals, expecting death, or mourning._...
Was not this blessed promise faithfully and fully completed, when, at the hour of Christ's death, by an invisible hand, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom? Mark 15:38....
7._And he will destroy the face of the covering. _(143) Here also commentators differ, for by the word _covering _is meant the disgrace with which believers are covered in this world, so that the glor...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 25 AND 26. Chapter s 25 and 26 take the form of a song, in which the effect of God's intervention is celebrated. Let us observe its principal subjects. God is...
AND HE WILL DESTROY IN THIS MOUNTAIN THE FACE OF THE COVERING CAST OVER ALL PEOPLE,.... Or, "the covering of the face" f; that which has covered the face of all people; that darkness which has been sp...
And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations. Ver. 7. _And he will destroy in this mountain, &c._] _Absorbebit velu...
_And in this mountain_ In mount Zion, namely, God's church, very frequently meant by the names of _Zion_ and _Jerusalem_, both in the Old and New Testaments; _shall the Lord make unto all people_ Both...
THANKSGIVING FOR GOD'S BENEFITS...
And He will destroy in this mountain, the habitation of His holy Church, THE FACE OF THE COVERING CAST OVER ALL PEOPLE AND THE VEIL THAT IS SPREAD OVER ALL NATIONS, namely, that of their spiritual bli...
DESTROY: _ Heb._ swallow up CAST OVER: _ Heb._ covered...
6-8 The kind reception of repentant sinners, is often in the New Testament likened to a feast. The guests invited are all people, Gentiles as well as Jews. There is that in the gospel which strengthe...
THE FACE OF THE COVERING; which is put either, 1. For the covering of the face, by an hypallage, as silver of shekels is put for shekels of silver, LEVITICUS 5:15; or, 2. For the covering or VEIL, as...
Isaiah 25:7 destroy H1104 (H8765) mountain H2022 surface H6440 covering H3875 over H3874 (H8802) people H5971 veil...
YAHWEH WILL BRING DOWN ‘THE CITY' WITH ALL ITS ANTI-GOD SIGNIFICANCE AND WILL UPHOLD HIS PEOPLE AND DEFEAT DEATH SO THAT THEY RISE AGAIN (ISAIAH 25:1). Analysis. a O Yahweh, you are my God, I will ex...
CONTENTS: Triumphs of the coming Kingdom age. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: God should be exalted by His people for the wonderful things He has done, and is to do, according to His promises,...
Isaiah 25:2. _A defenced city a ruin._ This city, in the next words, is called _a palace of strangers;_ therefore it was a great city. In the critics we find nothing but conjectures, as Samaria Ar of...
_And He will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over an people_ THE REMOVAL OF THE COVERING I. THE GOSPEL DESTROYS THE COVERING WHICH HIDES THE TRUE NATURE OF MAN. The covering of...
_A feast of fat things_ THE GOSPEL FEAST I. THE FEAST. 1. Spiritual blessings are here, as in other places, set forth under the emblem of feast (Proverbs 9:2; Luke 14:16; Matthew 22:4). In Christ, a...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 25:6 God relieves human sorrow. ⇐ ⇔...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 25:7 THE COVERING... THE VEIL. The pall of death hanging over all human activity under the curse (see Genesis 3:17). God will...
THE GOSPEL FEAST Isaiah 25:6. _And in this mountain, &c._ The blessings of the Gospel are, with wise adaptation to our views and feelings, often compared to the objects in which men naturally take mo...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 25:1 ISAIAH'S SONG OF PRAISE ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF GOD'S KINGDOM. AS in Isai
But O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth (Isaiah 25:1). In other words, "God, I'm goi...
2 Corinthians 3:13; Acts 17:30; Ephesians 3:5; Ephesians 3:6;...