Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 6:4
The posts — Together with the door itself. Such violent motions were commonly tokens of God's anger. Smoak — Which elsewhere is a token of God's presence and acceptance, but here of his anger.
The posts — Together with the door itself. Such violent motions were commonly tokens of God's anger. Smoak — Which elsewhere is a token of God's presence and acceptance, but here of his anger.
AND THE POSTS OF THE DOOR - Margin, ‘Thresholds.’ There is some difficulty in the Hebrew here, but the meaning of the expression is sufficiently apparent. It means that there was a tremour, or concuss...
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Jehovah appears to the prophet in human form, and as a King, seated on a throne, surrounded by ministering servants who sing His praise (cf. 1 Kings 22:19 ff.). The scene is the Temple (Isaiah 6:1), w...
_the posts of the door moved_ THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE THRESHOLDS SHOOK (R.V.). _was filled_( BEGAN TO FILL) with _smoke_ The smoke symbolises the "dark side of Jehovah's self-manifestation" (Revelation...
CHAPTER SIX D. ILLUMINATION FROM THE ALMIGHTY Isaiah 6:1-13 1. THE PROPHET SEES GOD Isaiah 6:1-7 a. THE GLORY TEXT: Isaiah 6:1-4 1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a
And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. THE POSTS OF THE DOOR MOVED AT THE VOICE - the foundations of the thresholds (Maurer). The lint...
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...
THE POSTS OF THE DOOR MOVED] RV 'the foundations of the thresholds were moved.' SMOKE] a symbol of the divine presence, as in Exodus 19:9; Exodus 19:18; 1 Kings 8:10;...
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THE POSTS OF THE DOOR. — Better, _the foundations of the threshold._ The words seem to point to the prophet’s position as in front of the Holy of holies. THE HOUSE WAS FILLED WITH SMOKE. — The vision...
וַ יָּנֻ֨עוּ֙ אַמֹּ֣ות הַ סִּפִּ֔ים מִ קֹּ֖ול
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...
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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...
And the posts of the door (k) moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. (k) Which was to confirm the prophet, that it was not the voice of man: and by the smoke was s...
_Of him. Septuagint, "them," (Haydock) the Seraphim signifying that the veil was removed by the death of Christ, (Theodoret) or that the people should be led into captivity, as a Jew explained it to S...
From the light thrown upon this blessed vision, in the other parts of scripture, as before shown, and all evidently, and plainly directed to prove that it is the person of Christ, who manifested himse...
4._And the lintels of the posts were moved. _This noise was an indication that it was not a human voice which the Prophet had heard; for no mortal man has a voice so powerful as to be capable of makin...
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...
AND THE POSTS OF THE DOOR MOVED AT THE VOICE OF HIM THAT CRIED,.... That is, the posts of the door of the temple, as the Targum adds, where this vision was seen, as represented to the prophet. Some th...
And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. Ver. 4. _And the posts of the door were moved._] Presently upon the angels' hymn this occured, wit...
_And the posts of the door moved_ Together with the door itself. Such violent motions were commonly tokens of God's anger. And here, it seems, this concussion of the temple was intended to signify God...
And the posts of the door, the foundations of the sills, or thresholds, the heavenly temple with its portals down to the lowest foundation, MOVED AT THE VOICE OF HIM THAT CRIED, the powerful sound of...
JEHOVAH REVEALED IN HIS GLORY...
door: _ Heb._ thresholds...
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...
THE POSTS OF THE DOOR, together with the door itself, as if the door was to be removed, and the temple thereby to be exposed to the view and rapine of profane persons. Such violent motions were common...
Isaiah 6:4 posts H520 door H5592 shaken H5128 (H8799) voice H6963 out H7121 (H8802) house H1004 filled...
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Isaiah 6:2 I. The seraphim, or burning ones these strange mystic creatures whom Isaiah beheld hovering above Jehovah's throne, and whose resounding cries pierced his soul. The first thing that strikes...
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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...
_And the posts of the door moved_ THE SHAKEN TEMPLE It is stated that, at a musical festival which was held in Westminster Abbey on one occasion, the strains were so powerful in a certain part of th...
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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 8:10; 2 Chronicles 5:13; 2 Chronicles 5:14; 2 Chronicles 6:1;...
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