Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 6:6
Flew — By God's command. A coal — Both a token and an instrument of purification. The altar — Of burnt — offering.
Flew — By God's command. A coal — Both a token and an instrument of purification. The altar — Of burnt — offering.
Verse Isaiah 6:6. _A LIVE COAL_] The word of prophecy, which was put into the mouth of the prophet. _FROM OFF THE ALTAR_] That is, from the altar of burnt-offerings, before the door of the temple, o...
THEN FLEW - Isaiah is represented as standing out of the temple; the seraphim as in it. HAVING A LIVE COAL - The Vulgate renders this, ‘A stone.’ This is, probably, the original meaning of the word; s...
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 ...
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FLEW. Compare "ran" (Luke 15:20). THE TONGS. Reference to Pent, (Exodus 25:38; Exodus 25:37; Exodus 25:23 ("snuffers")....
The ceremony of purification is in many respects unique, and seems to involve several ideas: (1) It shews that contact with the fire of the divine holiness is not necessarily destructive even to man....
DISCOURSE: 866 ISAIAH’S VISION OF CHRIST Isaiah 6:5. Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes ha...
THEN SAID I, &C.— The second part of this vision contains the sanctification of the prophet for the undertaking of a great prophetical office, and consists of two parts: the first describes the prophe...
b. THE GRACE TEXT: Isaiah 6:5-7 5 Then I said, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King...
Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: THEN FLEW ONE OF THE SERAPHIM UNTO ME. The seraph had been in the temp...
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...
LIVE COAL] Fire is the symbol of purification: cp. Malachi 3:2; Matthew 3:11....
But God has work for Isaiah to do. The action of a *fiery *angel convinces Isaiah that God has forgiven him. So Isaiah is now able to do what God asks. GOD’S HARD TASK FOR ISAIAH V8 Then I heard th...
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...
THEN FLEW ONE OF THE SERAPHIMS. — In presenting the vision to our mind’s eye we have to think of the bright seraph form, glowing as with fire, and with wings like the lightning-flash, leaving his stat...
וַ יָּ֣עָף אֵלַ֗י אֶחָד֙ מִן ־הַ שְּׂרָפִ֔ים
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Then one of the seraphims flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, [which] he had taken with the tongs from off the (m) altar: (m) Of the burnt offerings where the fire never went out....
_Coal. "Carbuncle," (Septuagint) the word of God, (St. Basil) spirit of prophecy, (St. Jerome, 142. ad Dam., &c.)_...
Reader! do remark with me, the infinite grace of the Lord! see how, amidst all the sanctities of heaven, the case of a poor sinner upon earth was taken notice of, and provided for. Depend upon it, the...
6._Then flew one of the seraphim to me. _The Prophet shows what kind of relief was brought to him, when he was so terrified as to think that he was a dead man; and this confirms what we have already s...
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...
THEN FLEW ONE OF THE SERAPHIM UNTO ME,.... When the prophet had confessed his sin; for upon that follows the application of pardon; and when the seraph, or minister of the Gospel, had an order from th...
Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, [which] he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: Ver. 6. _Then flew one of the seraphims unto me._] _Relinquit chorum il...
_Then flew one of the seraphim unto me_ By God's command; _having a live coal in his hand_ Both a token and an instrument of purification, as the next verse explains it; _which he had taken with the t...
JEHOVAH REVEALED IN HIS GLORY...
Then flew one of the seraphim unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar, the altar of incense evidently being referred to;...
HAVING A LIVE COAL: _ Heb._ and in his hand a live coal...
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...
THEN FLEW ONE OF THE SERAPHIMS UNTO ME, by God's command, _having a live coal_; both a token and an instrument of purification, as the next verse explains it. FROM OFF THE ALTAR OF BURNT-OFFERING, whi...
Isaiah 6:6 one H259 seraphim H8314 flew H5774 (H8799) hand H3027 coal H7531 taken H3947 (H8804) tongs...
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