Those who proudly pretend to be ‘holier’ than other people make God very angry. Such people proudly consider that they do not need God. The picture language of ‘smoke up the nose’ describes what God’s feels about such a vain opinion.
Verse Isaiah 65:5. _FOR I AM HOLIER THAN THOU_] So the _Chaldee_ renders it. קדשתיך kedashticha is the same with קדשתי ממך _kadashti_ _mimmecha_. In the same manner חזקתני _chazaktani_, Jeremiah 20:7...
WHICH SAY, STAND BY THYSELF - Who at the time that they engage in these abominations are distinguished for spiritual pride. The most worthless people are commonly the most proud; and they who have wan...
CHAPTER 65 Jehovah's Answer: The Rebellious and Their Judgment, the Faithful and Their Blessings 1. _The divine rebuke to the apostates (Isaiah 65:1) _ 2. _The elect seed (Isaiah 65:9) _ 3. The judg...
RETRIBUTION AWAITS THOSE WHO CLING TO THE OLD RITUAL PRACTICES AND REFUSE TO ADHERE TO THE REFORMED RELIGION. Yahweh declares His readiness to respond to this people, but they would not approach Him o...
Description of their illegal and superstitious cults....
_Stand by thyself_ Lit. "Draw near to thyself." Cf. Isaiah 49:20. _for I am holier than thou_ This construction of the accus. suffix is hardly admissible. The verb is to be pointed as _Piel_, and the...
WHICH SAY, STAND BY THYSELF, &C.— In the following section, ch. Isaiah 66:5 the crime of hypocrisy as here is decried, and every reader will easily recognize in both places the Pharisees and their fol...
E. REFINING OF ZION, CHAPTER 65 1. CLEANSED TEXT: Isaiah 65:1-12 1 I am inquired of by them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation...
Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day. WHICH SAY, STAND BY THYSELF, COME NOT NEAR TO ME; FOR I A...
65:5 thou. (a-16) Or 'I sanctify myself in respect of thee.'...
1. Render, 'I have offered answers to those who asked not; I have been at hand to those who sought me not.. a nation that hath not called upon my name.' The v. refers to the Israelites who neglected J...
WHICH SAY, etc.] The words are uttered by those initiated into heathen mysteries, and who therefore considered themselves peculiarly sacred....
WHICH SAY, STAND BY THYSELF... — The picture, in its main outlines, reminds us of the proud exclusiveness of the later Pharisees, and the root-evil is, of course, identical. Here, however, the ground...
הָ אֹֽמְרִים֙ קְרַ֣ב אֵלֶ֔יךָ אַל ־תִּגַּשׁ ־
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...
A SEED RESCUED FROM DESTRUCTION Isaiah 65:1-12 The prophet now enumerates the reasons that forced the Lord to turn aside from the Chosen People, and call in the Gentiles to occupy the place and perfo...
In this chapter we have a graphic description of the working of the principle of discrimination, the sifting of the people by God. There is first a contrast between the false and the true. The rebelli...
Which say, (h) Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These [are] a smoke in my nose, a fire that (i) burneth all the day. (h) He shows that hypocrisy is always joined with...
_Unclean. Thus acted the hypocritical Pharisees. --- Smoke. A just punishment of those who had sought the smoke of human applause._...
This is the lamentation of Jesus over his ancient people, the Jews. And what a sad history of rebellion, from the beginning, when God formed them into a Church, to the time of their rejecting the Lord...
5._Remain by thyself. _(202) He points out extreme impiety in the Jews, who obstinately and rebelliously opposed God’s worshippers, and refused to listen to any warnings. There is some hope of repenta...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 64 AND 65. The next two Chapter s give us a full revelation of the dealings of God in answer to this appeal. First of all, God, through His grace, had been so...
WHICH SAY, STAND BY THYSELF, c], According to Aben Ezra, Jarchi, and Kimchi, these are the unclean persons that did the above things who say to the righteous, "draw near to thyself" p; so the words ar...
_Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These [are] a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day._ Ver. 5. _Which say, Stand by thyself; come not near to...
_Who say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me_ Though they were so exceedingly guilty, yet they pretended to singular sanctity, so that they would not suffer others to come near or touch them. The r...
THE LORD'S REFUSAL...
which say, Stand by thyself, thus declaring their rejection of Jehovah, COME NOT NEAR TO ME; FOR I AM HOLIER THAN THOU. Thus the idolaters give voice to the thoughts of their hearts, with whom they no...
NOSE: Or, anger...
1-7 The Gentiles came to seek God, and find him, because they were first sought and found of him. Often he meets some thoughtless trifler or profligate opposer, and says to him, Behold me; and a spee...
Though they were so exceedingly guilty, yet they pretended to a singular sanctity, so as they would not suffer others to come near or touch them. The Samaritans are usually charged with this uncharita...
Isaiah 65:5 say H559 (H8802) Keep H7126 (H8798) near H5066 (H8799) holier H6942 (H8804) smoke...
THE MAJORITY OF HIS PEOPLE WILL REJECT HIM FOR THEIR IDOLS AND WILL RECEIVE THEIR JUST PUNISHMENT (ISAIAH 65:2). On the other hand those who do claim to be called by His name, but are hypocritical, w...
Isaiah 65:5 False grounds of superiority in holiness. The disposition to arrogate the dignity of holiness, in other words, of religious worth and excellence, has never become extinct among men, nor th...
CONTENTS: Answer of Jehovah to remnant of Israel. Eternal blessing in the renovated earth. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Although Jehovah has long stretched forth His hand to a disobedient and gainsa...
Isaiah 65:4. _Which remain among the graves._ The LXX add, _dream._ Perhaps Jude had this text in his eye, when he calls the wicked “filthy dreamers.” _See Augustine's city of God. Which eat swine's f...
_Which may, Stand by thyself_ “ I AM HOLIER THAN THOU” For “I am holier read, probably, else I will make thee holy. ” The practices referred to were “mysteries,” and the initiated would communicate...
_A people that provoked Me to anger_ OBSTINACY PROVOKES GOD’S WRATH By rejecting His love with stiff-necked obstinacy, they have incurred wrath, which, though long and patiently restrained, now burs...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 65:1 Though the people of God have unfaithful sinners mixed among them now, he is eager to bring them into their glorious eternal home. His eagerness is rejected by Jews but welc...
REPUDIATING THE SOCIETY OF OTHERS Isaiah 65:5. _Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me, &c._ There are few things in which it becomes us to be more careful than in our judgment of others, a...
SECTION XI.—GOD'S ANSWER TO THE EXILES' PRAYER (Isaiah 65:1.) EXPOSITION ISAIAH 65:1 ISRAEL'S SUFFERINGS
Now God answers the prayer offered by the remnant of the people and He said, I am sought of them that asked not for me (Isaiah 65:1); Here's the remnant of the Jewish people calling to God. "If You'...
1 Peter 5:5; Acts 22:21; Acts 22:22; Deuteronomy 29:20; Deuter
Holier — Thus they esteemed themselves holier than others, though all their holiness lay in rituals, and those too, such as God never commanded. Of these God saith, These are a smoak in my nostrils, a...