CHAPTER LIV _Some suppose this chapter to have been addressed to the_ _Gentiles; some, to the Jewish Church; and some, to the_ _Christian, in its first stage. On comparing the different parts_ _of it, particularly the seventh and eighth verses, with the_ _remainder, the most obvious import of t... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 54:4. _FOR THOU SHALT FORGET THE SHAME OF THY YOUTH_] That is, "The bondage of Egypt: _widowhood_, the captivity of Babylon." - _Secker_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 54:7. _FOR A SMALL MOMENT _- "In a little anger"] So the _Chaldee_ and _Syriac_, either reading רגז _regaz_, for רגע _rega_; or understanding the latter word as meaning the same with the former, which they both make use of. See Psalms 30:5; Psalms 35:20, in the _Septuagint_, where they... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 54:8. _I HID MY FACE FROM THEE FOR A MOMENT_] The word רגע _rega_ is omitted by the _Septuagint, Syriac_, and two MSS. of _Kennicott's_, and two of _De Rossi's_. It seems to embarrass rather than to help the sentence. Forte reponi debet pro שצף _shetseph_, quod potest a קצף _ketseph_ er... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 54:9. _FOR THIS_ IS AS _THE WATERS OF NOAH UNTO ME_ - "The same will I do now, as in the days of Noah"] כימי _kimey_, in one word, in a MS., and some editions; and so the _Syriac, Chaldee, Vulgate,_ _Symmachus, Theodotion, Abarbanel, Sal. ben Melec_, and _Kimchi_ acknowledge that their... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 54:11. _BEHOLD, I WILL LAY THY STONES _- "Behold, I lay thy stones"] These seem to be general images to express beauty, magnificence, purity, strength, and solidity, agreeably to the ideas of the eastern nations; and to have never been intended to be strictly scrutinized, or minutely a... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 54:15. _SHALL FALL FOR THY SAKE _- "Shall come over to thy side."] For יפול _yippol_, twenty-eight MSS. (eight ancient) have יפל _yipal_, in its more common form. For the meaning of the word in this place, see Jeremiah 37:13.... [ Continue Reading ]