Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 40:19
Melteth — He melts metal into a mould, which afterwards is graven or carved to make it more exact.
Melteth — He melts metal into a mould, which afterwards is graven or carved to make it more exact.
Verse Isaiah 40:19. _AND CASTETH SILVER CHAINS _- "And forgeth for it chains of silver."] For צורף _tsoreph_, the participle, twenty-seven MSS., five ancient, and three editions, read צרף _tsaraph_, p...
THE WORKMAN - The Hebrew word denotes an artificer of any kind, and is applied to one who engraved on wood or stone Exodus 28:2; to a workman in iron, brass, stone, wood Exodus 35:35; Deuteronomy 27:1...
II. THE LATER PROPHECIES OF COMFORT AND GLORY (40-66) Like the first part this second part of Isaiah has three sections. The three sections of the first part revealed the judgments to come upon the Je...
AN EXPANSION OF THE TEXT SUGGESTED IN ISAIAH 40:6. Isaiah 40:12. The Majesty of God, in Whose Eyes the World is Insignificant. God is the Creator, disposing of earth and heaven as very small things. N...
MELTETH. casteth. graven. Hebrew. _pesel._ Here made by casting....
"To whom will ye liken God?" This question introduces the second distinct theme of the argument, the folly of idolatry. Although the prophet has in his mind the difficulties of Jews impressed by the f...
_melteth a graven image_ R.V. THE GRAVEN IMAGE, A WORKMAN MELTED IT. The word _péṣel_means strictly a "graven image," but is used several times as here of an image in general. OVERLAYETH IT _with gol...
TO WHOM THEN WILL YE LIKEN GOD?— _To whom,_ &c. or _what resemblance will ye contrive for him?_ Isaiah 40:19. _The workman casts an image; and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and worketh silver c...
b. PERCEIVE THE NATURE OF THE LORD TEXT: Isaiah 40:12-26 12 Who hath measured the water in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a me...
The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains. THE WORKMAN MELTETH A GRAVEN IMAGE. "Graven" - Hebrew, pecel (H6459); rather, an image...
ISRAEL'S RESTORATION FROM EXILE IN BABYLON On the authorship and date of these Chapter s see Intro. According to their subject matter, they fall naturally into three divisions of almost equal length...
A man may try to make his own god. But an *idol cannot live. And it has no possible use. Its maker even has to fix it firmly in position. Otherwise it will fall. • The *Lord God is spirit. He is not...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 40 This chapter begins the second half of the Book of Isaiah. • In CHAPTER...
THE WORKMAN MELTETH... — The reign of Ahaz, not to speak of that of Manasseh, must have supplied the prophet with his picture of the idol factory not less fully than if he had lived in Babylon or Nine...
הַ פֶּ֨סֶל֙ נָסַ֣ךְ חָרָ֔שׁ וְ צֹרֵ֖ף בַּ
CHAPTER I THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1;...
THE EVERLASTING GOD THE GIVER OF STRENGTH Isaiah 40:18-31 Day changes to night, and as the twilight deepens, the stars come out in their myriads, Isaiah 40:26. To the poetic eye of the watcher, they...
We now commence the prophecies of peace, which also fall into three divisions, dealing in turn with the purpose of peace (40-48), the Prince of Peace (49-57), the program of peace (58-66). The fist el...
_Silver. Is God like these idols? (Haydock) --- Who knows not that the workman is better than they are? (Wisdom xiii. 11.) (Calmet)_...
Who but must feel humbled to the very dust of the earth, while reading, in these verses, the sad state to which man is reduced by the fall? We see man so prone to idolatry, that if the poor creature b...
19._The carver prepares a graven image. _As public opinion has great force, and everything that pleases the multitude passes for a law, the Prophet fortifies believers against this error. These words...
The first part of that which might be called the second book of Isaiah extends from chapter 40 to the end of chapter 48. The Messiah is, comparatively speaking, but little introduced here. It is rathe...
THE WORKMAN MELTETH A GRAVEN IMAGE,.... Or, "the founder"; he melts some sort of metal, as iron, brass, copper, or lead, which he casts into a mould for an image, and afterwards graves, or gets it gra...
The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains. Ver. 19. _The workman melteth a graven image._] That may be afterward graved and gilded o...
_The workman melteth a graven image_ He melteth some base metal into a mould which giveth it the form of an image, which afterward is graven or carved to make it the more exact and pleasing likeness o...
Jehovah the Supreme Ruler. The connection of thought between this section and the foregoing one is this, that the majesty and glory of God over against the idolatry of the heathen nations guarantees...
The workman melteth a graven image, casting it in molds, AND THE GOLDSMITH SPREADETH IT OVER WITH GOLD, in a plating of the more precious metal, AND CASTETH SILVER CHAINS, as ornaments on the figure....
18-26 Whatever we esteem or love, fear or hope in, more than God, that creature we make equal with God, though we do not make images or worship them. He that is so poor, that he has scarcely a sacrif...
THE WORKMAN MELTETH A GRAVEN IMAGE; he melteth some base metal into a mould, which giveth it the form of an image, which afterwards is graven or carved to make it more exact and amiable. Thus the imag...
Isaiah 40:19 workman H2796 molds H5258 (H8804) image H6459 goldsmith H6884 (H8802) overspreads H7554 (H8762) gold...
THE GREATNESS OF GOD PROCLAIMED (ISAIAH 40:12). And He will be able to do it because of His greatness. In this vital passage the greatness of God to do What He declares He will do is now revealed in...
Isaiah 40:1. _Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God._ «They need it, and they shall have it. Mind, O my servants, that you give it to them: Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God...
Isaiah 40:1. _Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem._ The loss of comfort is no small loss. God would have his people happy. They are in the best conditi...
CONTENTS: Joyful prospect given to the people of God of the happiness of coming redemption. Reproof for their despondencies. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: Nothing can be spoken mo...
Isaiah 40:1. _Comfort ye, comfort ye my people._ What a sweet voice is this to the church, after all her long afflictions. The words are doubled, to designate the fulness of comfort in the pardon of s...
_Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of His hand?_ THE GRANDEUR OF GOD The prophet’s notions of God are diffused through all the verses of the text. The prophet’s design in describing the Dei...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 40:18 GOD alone is God. Isaiah sarcastically describes the process of making an idol. ⇐...
PART III. ISAIAH'S LATER PROPHECIES (CH. 40-66.). SECTION I. THE PEOPLE OF GOD COMFORTED IN TRIBULATION (Isaiah 40:1.). EXPOSITION...
But he's talking about a whole new message of God for the people as we get into the new covenant of God. And so it is appropriate that this new section of Isaiah begins with the word of the Lord decla...
Exodus 32:2; Habakkuk 2:18; Habakkuk 2:19; Hosea 8:6; Isaiah 37:18;...