Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Isaiah 32:5
The (e) vile person shall be no more called noble, nor the churl said [to be] bountiful.
(e) Vice will no more be called virtue, nor virtue esteemed by power and riches.
The (e) vile person shall be no more called noble, nor the churl said [to be] bountiful.
(e) Vice will no more be called virtue, nor virtue esteemed by power and riches.
Verse Isaiah 32:5. _THE VILE PERSON SHALL NO MORE BE CALLED LIBERAL_] The different epithets here employed require minute explanation. _The vile person _- נבל nabal, the pampered, fattened, brainless...
THE VILE PERSON - Hebrew, ‘Fool.’ But the connection requires us to understand this as the opposite of liberal; and it means a person who is close, miserly, narrow-minded, covetous. This person is des...
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...
THE VILE PERSON. Some codices, with two early printed editions, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "And the", thus preserving the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ (Isaiah 32:1). VILE PERSON. fool. Hebrew. _n...
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...
True and false nobility shall no longer be confounded because of artificial caste-distinctions. _The vile person_ or, THE FOOL; see the typical specimen, Nabal by name and by nature, in 1 Samuel 25....
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...
The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful. THE VILE - rather, fool (Lowth); i:e., ungodly (Psalms 14:1; Psalms 74:18: Hebrew nabal (H5036),...
32:5 man (f-3) _ Nabal_ . see Note o, Proverbs 1:7 . 'villainy,' in ver. 6, and 'folly,' ch. 9.17, are from same root. churl (g-12) Or 'miser,' so ver. 7....
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....
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...
In the Bible a ‘fool’ is not merely someone who acts stupidly (as in 1 Samuel 26:21). A fool is more often someone who leaves God out of his life (see Psalms 14:1 and Luke 12:20)....
THE VILE PERSON SHALL BE NO MORE CALLED LIBERAL. — Better, _noble,_ the καλοκάγαθος of the Greeks, the _ingenuus_ of the Latin. So for “bountiful,” read _gentle._ Here, again, we have a picture, the e...
לֹֽא ־יִקָּרֵ֥א עֹ֛וד לְ נָבָ֖ל נָדִ֑יב וּ
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...
_Deceitful. Hebrew, "miser be called liberal," Luke xxii. 25. These good princes are contrasted with Achaz, who had oppressed his subjects._...
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...
5._No longer shall the base person be called. _The Prophet means that everything will be restored to good order, so that vices will not, as formerly, be reckoned virtues; for, when the public governme...
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...
THE VILE PERSON SHALL BE NO MORE CALLED LIBERAL,.... Or "Nabal" (a fool) "shall no more be called Nadib" e (a prince); or have this name put upon him, or be advanced to honour and dignity, or be flatt...
The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said [to be] bountiful. Ver. 5. _The vile person shall be no more called liberal._] _Benefici et magnifici domini._ That sapless fellow...
_The vile person_ Base and worthless men; _shall be no more called liberal_ Shall no longer be reputed honourable, because of their high and honourable places, but wickedness shall be discovered where...
The vile person shall be no more called liberal, a fool, given to wickedness as he is, will no longer be called noble, NOR THE CHURL SAID TO BE BOUNTIFUL, the swindler will no longer be called a baron...
A GOVERNMENT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS...
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...
THE VILE PERSON; base and worthless men. Heb. _the fool_; which in Scripture use commonly signifies a wicked man. SHALL BE NO MORE CALLED LIBERAL, or _noble_, or _a prince_, or _lord_, as this word is...
Isaiah 32:5 person H5036 called H7121 (H8735) generous H5081 miser H3596 said H559 (H8735) bountiful H7771...
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 vile person shall be no more called liberal_ VILE PERSON (Hebrews, _nabal_):--Compare 1 Samuel 25:1. (_A. B.Davidson, LL. D._) THE CONVENTIONAL ABUSE OF MORAL TERMS “Liberal” and “bountiful”...
_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...
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...
1 Samuel 25:3; Isaiah 5:20; Malachi 3:18; Proverbs 23:6; Psalms 15:4
The vile — Base and worthless men. Liberal — Shall no longer be reputed honourable, because of their high and honourable places, but wickedness shall be discovered where ever it is, and virtue manifes...