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IS IT SUCH A FAST THAT I HAVE CHOSEN? - Is this such a mode of fasting
as I have appointed and as I approve?
A DAY FOR A MAN TO AFFLICT HIS SOUL? - Margin, ‘To afflict his soul
for a day.’ The reading...
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3. JEWISH HISTORY IN THE END TIME: THEIR FUTURE GLORY AND THE GLORY OF
THE COMING AGE (58-59)
This third and last section of the vision of Isaiah can only be
understood and appreciated if it is studie...
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FASTING, FALSE AND TRUE. Yahweh bids the prophet explain to His people
wherein their sin lies. Daily they attend the Temple, seeking to know
His will for all the world as though their one aim were to...
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CHOSEN. See note on Isaiah 1:29.
A MAN. Hebrew. _adam_. App-14.
SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh_. App-13.
BULRUSH. See note on Isaiah 9:14.
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4....
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SHOULD SUCH BE THE FAST THAT I CHOOSE? Can mere gestures and symbols
of humiliation avail anything, along with such evidences of an
unspiritual frame of mind?
_to afflict his soul_ Both here and in I...
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DISCOURSE: 993
THE SERVICES WHICH GOD REQUIRES
Isaiah 58:5. Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to
afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to
spread sackcloth...
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E. WHOLENESS TO THE WISE WHO KEEP CONVENANT WITH THE LORD, CHAPTER 58
1. HEARKEN
TEXT: Isaiah 58:1-5
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Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and declare
unto my people their trans...
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Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his
soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth
and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acc...
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2. DID RIGHTEOUSNESS] i.e. kept the law. They are ready enough for the
external requirements of religion....
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God uses ‘*fast’ as a picture word, to mean ‘not to do things
only for oneself’.
• Although the law of Moses required only one *fast a year (see
Leviticus 23:27-32), the *fast was important (see 2 Sa...
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 58
WRONG PRACTICE OF RELIGION
V1 (This is what God says.) ‘Shout loudly...
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A DAY FOR A MAN TO AFFLICT HIS SOUL. — The phrase comes from
Leviticus 16:29, and describes the soul-sorrow which was the true
ideal of fasting. In contrast with this we have the picture, reminding
us...
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הֲ כָ זֶ֗ה יִֽהְיֶה֙ צֹ֣ום
אֶבְחָרֵ֔הוּ יֹ֛ום
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CHAPTER XXIII
THE REKINDLING OF THE CIVIC CONSCIENCE
Isaiah 56:9; Isaiah 57:1; Isaiah 58:1; Isaiah 59:1
IT was inevitable, as so
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THE FAST THAT GOD HAS CHOSEN
Isaiah 58:1-14
The divorce between outward rites and inward piety has been the curse
of every age. When the Pharisees were plotting our Lord's death, they
refused to ent...
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We now commence the last division of the book, which deals with the
program of peace as it sets forth the conditions, describes the
ultimate realization, and insists on a principle of discrimination....
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_Circle. They affected extreme debility, Matthew vi. 16. (Calmet) ---
Ashes. These external marks of penance are not condemned, but the want
of corresponding sentiments. (Haydock) --- Protestants woul...
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Observe how possible it is to have a fondness for ordinances, but to
be void of a spirit of grace in them. Outward observances are easily
followed; but heart-renewing, heart-felt sorrow for sin, consi...
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5._Is it such a fast as I have chosen? _He confirms the preceding
statement, and shows that fasting is neither desired nor approved by
God in itself, but so far as it is directed to its true end. He d...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 58 AND 59.
But these moral considerations rouse the indignation of the Spirit at
the condition of Israel in the days of the prophecy-their sin and
their hypoc...
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IS IT SUCH A FAST THAT I HAVE CHOSEN?.... That is, can this be thought
to be a fast approved of by me, and acceptable to me, before
described, and is as follows:
A DAY FOR A MAN TO AFFLICT HIS SOUL?...
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Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his
soul? [is it] to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread
sackcloth and ashes [under him]? wilt thou call this a fast, and an...
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_Behold, ye fast for strife_ Your fasting days, wherein you ought, in
a special manner, to implore the mercy of God, and to show compassion
to men, you employ in injuring or quarrelling with your bret...
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Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his
soul? Could the Lord accept their fasting as an expression of
repentance? IS IT TO BOW DOWN HIS HEAD AS A BULRUSH, affecting a
sorr...
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A SHARP REPROOF OF HYPOCRISY...
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DAY FOR A MAN TO AFFLICT HIS SOUL?:
Or, to afflict his soul for a day?...
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3-12 A fast is a day to afflict the soul; if it does not express true
sorrow for sin, and does not promote the putting away of sin, it is
not a fast. These professors had shown sorrow on stated or oc...
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THAT I HAVE CHOSEN; approve of, accept, or delight in, by a metonymy,
because we delight in what we freely choose. A DAY FOR A MAN TO
AFFLICT HIS SOUL; or, to afflict his soul for a day. It is an
_hyp...
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“Is it such a fast that I have chosen?
The day for a man to afflict his person?
Is it to bow down his head as a rush?
And to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?
Will you call this a fast?
And a...
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Isaiah 58:3
I. The Hebrew prophet's deliverance here is not in condemnation or
disparagement of all fasting. The people of his day were in the habit,
it appears, of denying themselves food, and assumi...
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Isaiah 58:1. _Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet
and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their
sins._
See, friends, how stolid men are by nature. God's mess...
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Isaiah 58:1. _Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet,
and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their
sins. Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways as...
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CONTENTS: Hypocritical professions of religion. Instructions how to
keep fasts aright.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: It is common for unhumbled hearts, while they perform the
external services of rel...
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Isaiah 58:1. _Cry aloud, spare not; lift up thy voice like a trumpet._
It is not doubted by the Jews, nor by St. Jerome, that Isaiah lived to
the beginning of Manasseh's idolatrous reign; nor that he...
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_Is it such a fast that I have chosen?_
THE FAST WHICH GOD HAS CHOSEN
I. GOD’S PURPOSE IN COMMANDING MEN TO FAST.
1. To lead us to prayer (Isaiah 58:4), prayer so real that our voices
are “heard on...
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_Wherefore have we fasted?_
FASTS
Fasts were a common feature of the old Israelitish religion (1Ki 21:9;
1 Kings 21:12; Jeremiah 36:9). In Zechariah 8:19 we learn expressly
that during the exile four...
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SECTION VI. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS AND WARNINGS, FOLLOWED BY A
CONFESSION AND A PROMISE (Isaiah 58:1; Isaiah 59:1.).
EXPOSIT
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Cry aloud, spare not (Isaiah 58:1),
The Lord is commanding now the prophet Isaiah.
lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their
transgressions, and the house of Jacob their sins. Yet t...
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1 Kings 21:27; 1 Peter 2:5; 2 Chronicles 20:3; 2 Kings 6:30; Dani
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Chosen — Approve of, accept, or delight in, by a metonymy, because
we delight in what we freely chuse. For a day — This may be
understood, either for a man to take a certain time to afflict his
soul i...