CHAPTER XXXI _The Jews again reproved for their confidence in Egypt, finely_ _contrasted with their neglect of the power and protection of_ _God_, 1-3. _Deliverance and protection are, notwithstanding, promised,_ _expressed by two similes; the first remarkably lofty and_ _poetical, the latter... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 31:2. _HIS WORDS _- "His word"] דברו _debaro, singular_, without י _yod_, two MSS. of Dr. _Kennicott's_ the _Septuagint_, and _Targ. Hieros_. דרכיו derachaiv, his ways, is found in one MS.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 31:3. _He that helpeth_ (the Egyptians) _shall fall and he that_ _is holpen_ (the Israelites) _shall fall down - together_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 31:4. _LIKE AS THE LION_] This comparison is exactly in the spirit and manner, and very nearly approaching to the expression, of _Homer_. Βη ρ' ιμεν, ὡστε λεων ορεσιτροφος, ὁστ' επιδευης Δηρον εῃ κρειων, κελεται δε ἑ θυμος αγηνωρ, Μηλων πειρησοντα, και ες πυκινον δομον ελθειν· Ε... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 31:5. _PASSING OVER_ - "Leaping forward"] The generality of interpreters observe in this place an allusion to the deliverance which God vouchsafed to his people when he destroyed the first-born of the Egyptians, and exempted those of the Israelites sojourning among them by a peculiar in... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 31:6. _HAVE DEEPLY REVOLTED _- "Have so deeply engaged in revolt."] All the ancient Versions read תעמיקו _taamiku_, in the second person, instead of העמיקו _heemiku, they have deeply_ _revolted_, c.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 31:7. _WHICH YOUR OWN HANDS HAVE MADE UNTO YOU FOR A SIN_ - "The sin, which their own hands have made."] The construction of the word חטא _chet, sin_, in this place is not easy. The _Septuagint_ have omitted it: MSS. _Pachom_. and I. D. II. and _Cod. Marchal_. in margine, supply the omi... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 31:8. _THEN SHALL THE ASSYRIAN FALL, C._] Because he was to be discomfited by the angel of the Lord, destroying in his camp, in one night, upwards of _one hundred and eighty thousand_ men and Sennacherib himself fell by the hands of the princes, his own sons. Not _mighty men_, for they... [ Continue Reading ]