Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Isaiah 32:8
liberal. noble: freehearted, freehanded.
liberal. noble: freehearted, freehanded.
Verse Isaiah 32:8. _LIBERAL THINGS _- "Generous purposes"] "Of the four sorts of persons mentioned Isaiah 32:5, three are described, Isaiah 32:6, but not the fourth." - SECKER. Perhaps for והוא _vehu...
BUT THE LIBERAL - This seems also to have the force of a proverbial expression. The word ‘liberal’ means generous, noble, large-hearted, benevolent; a man of large views and of public spirit; a man ab...
CHAPTER 32 THE COMING KING AND HIS KINGDOM 1. _The King and His rule (Isaiah 32:1)_ 2. _The careless women addressed (Isaiah 32:9)_ 3. _The judgment of the land and the city (Isaiah 32:13)_ 4. The hop...
ISAIAH 32. This chapter is regarded by some scholars as non-Isaianic on the ground of phraseology and ideas, but while it may have been interpolated, it is probably in the main Isaiah's work. It falls...
Isaiah 32:1-8. The ideal commonwealth of the Messianic Age This passage, although treated by many expositors as the continuation of ch. 31, bears all the marks of an independent prophecy. Its inserti...
The two types contrasted in their conduct....
_But the liberal_( THE NOBLE MAN) _deviseth liberal_( NOBLE) things and thereby evinces genuine nobility. _by liberal things_ Better: IN NOBLE THINGS DOTH HE CONTINUE (nearly as R.V.). His generous i...
THE VILE PERSON, &C.— The meaning of this passage is, clearly, that, after the time of this great deliverance under the reign of a pious and just king, those things and persons which had appeared unde...
C. FUTURE THAT IS FRUITFUL, Chapter S 32-33 1. SOVEREIGN TEXT: Isaiah 32:1-8 1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice. 2 And a man shall be as a hiding-pla...
But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand. BUT THE LIBERAL - rather, the princely, noble-minded. BY LIBERAL THINGS SHALL HE STAND - shall he be approved under...
32:8 to (i-8) Or 'by.'...
1-8. Characteristics of the future age. 9-14. A warning of coming desolation to the over-confident people. 15-20. Afterwards shall be a peaceful and prosperous future....
BY.. STAND] RV 'in liberal things shall he continue.' 9-14. Cp. Isaiah 3:16....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD DEFENDS *JERUSALEM ISAIAH CHAPTER S 31 TO 39 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 32 A NEW KING V1 Some day there will be a new king. He will govern rightly. And his o...
THE LIBERAL DEVISETH LIBERAL THINGS... — Better, as before, _noble. _...
וְ נָדִ֖יב נְדִיבֹ֣ות יָעָ֑ץ וְ ה֖וּא עַל
CHAPTER XV A MAN: CHARACTER AND THE CAPACITY TO DISCRIMINATE CHARACTER ABOUT 720 B.C. Isaiah 32:1 THE Assyrians being thus disposed of, Isaiah turns to a prospect, on which we have scarcely heard h...
A NOBLER FUTURE FOR THE NATION Isaiah 31:1-9; Isaiah 32:1-8 Isaiah continues to denounce the contemplated alliance with Egypt. His compatriots put their trust in horses and chariots, and refused the...
In this message the prophet describes the reign of the coming King, and then suddenly appeals to the women. He describes the reign of the King as establishment of order and creation of refuge and refr...
It would enlarge this Commentary to an extent indeed, were I to analyze the several verses here brought together, and say the half of what might be said in the paraphrase upon them. But all the blesse...
8._But the liberal shall devise liberal things. _We have already said that these statements of the Prophet have a deeper meaning than is commonly supposed; for he does not speak in the ordinary sense...
Then, in chapter 32, the Messiah should reign in righteousness and set everything morally in order. Zion would in fact be a wilderness until the Spirit was poured out from on high, and then it should...
BUT THE LIBERAL MAN DEVISETH LIBERAL THINGS,.... The man of a princely spirit consults and contrives, and delivers out things worthy of a prince and governor in the church of God; he that is one of a...
But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand. Ver. 8. _But the liberal deviseth liberal things._] _Beneficus beneficia cogitat: munificentius consultat, et consulit,_...
_The instruments also of the churl are evil_ Hebrew, כלי, _the vessels._ It is a word of a very general signification among the Hebrews, and signifies any person or thing which is employed in a man's...
But the liberal deviseth liberal things, and by liberal things shall he stand, that is, a person of noble mind and of high moral character will not only conceive noble things, but will also persevere...
A GOVERNMENT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS...
STAND: Or, be established...
1-8 Christ our righteous King, and his true disciples, are evidently here intended. The consolations and graces of his Spirit are as rivers of water in this dry land; and as the overhanging rock affo...
He who is truly liberal and virtuous will show it by designing and practising liberal or virtuous actions; and he who doth so will not destroy himself thereby, as wicked men falsely suppose, but estab...
Isaiah 32:8 generous H5081 devises H3289 (H8804) generous H5081 generosity H5081 stand H6965 (H8799) the liberal -...
A COMPARISON OF THE WISE AND HONOURABLE WITH THE FOOLISH AND THE CRAFTY (ISAIAH 32:4). In describing what will happen in the coming kingdom Isaiah analyses wisdom and folly. The king will deliver His...
CONTENTS: Promise of coming Kingdom. Warning of great tribulation. The King Deliverer. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Wasting and desolating judgment upon the land and people of Israel was pronounced b...
Isaiah 32:3. _The eyes of them that see shall not be dim._ The whole land shall be full of smiling affluence and joy; they shall have health of countenance, and look up with joy to a paternal throne....
_The liberal deviseth liberal things_ LIBERALITY, NATURAL AND GRACIOUS The liberal man is one who is generous and benevolent in his feelings--a man of large views and public spirit--one far above co...
_Behold, a King shall reign in righteousness_ ASAYRIA AND JUDAH Such (Isaiah 31:8) will be the ignominious end of the proud battalions of Assyria. For Judah a happier future immediately begins. Ther...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 32:8 Isaiah foresees a kingdom of true human decency, by the grace of God. ⇐ ⇔...
CHRISTIAN LIBERALITY Isaiah 32:8. _But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand_. This prophecy relates to the time when the kingdom of Judah would relinquish its foo...
SECTION VIII. A PROPHECY OF MESSIAH'S KINGDOM (Isaiah 32:1). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 32:1 A PROPHECY OF MESSIAH'S KING
Now as we get into chapter 32 Isaiah jumps over a couple of millennia at least, as he looks forward. As God is going to come down and as a crouching lion roaring and so forth, over her prey, in verse...
2 Corinthians 8:2; 2 Corinthians 9:6; 2 Samuel 9:1; Acts 11:29;...