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Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary

Isaiah 6 - Introduction

A.M. 3246. B.C. 758.

In this chapter we have the prophet's fourth discourse, containing an account of a glorious vision wherewith he was favoured; the design of which was, 1st, To exhibit a figure of the kingdom of the Son of God, hereafter to be manifested in the world; and, 2d, To foretell the future blindness and hardness of heart of the greatest part of the Jewish nation. We have

(1,) A symbolical manifestation of the glory of the God of Israel, Isaiah 6:1.

(2,) The sanctification of Isaiah to the performance of an important prophetic office, Isaiah 6:5.

(3,) A peculiar command given to the prophet concerning the future and unhappy state of the Jews, Isaiah 6:8.

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