Even to them will I give in my (e) house and within my walls a place and a (f) name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
(e) Meaning, in his Church.
(f) They will be called after my people, and be of the same religion: yea, under Christ the dignity of the faithful will be greater than the Jews were at that time.
Verse Isaiah 56:5. _I WILL GIVE THEM AN EVERLASTING NAME_] For לו _lo, him_, in the singular, it is evident that we ought to read למו _lamo,_ _them_, in the plural: so read the _Septuagint, Syriac, Ch...
WILL I GIVE IN MINE HOUSE - That is, they shalt be admitted to all the privileges of entering my house of prayer, and of being regarded as my true worshippers, and this shall be to them a more invalua...
CHAPTER 56 Salvation Enjoyed by the Strangers and Eunuchs 1. _Strangers and servants joined unto the Lord to serve Him and to love the Name of the Lord (Isaiah 56:1) _ The first eight verses of this...
ISAIAH 56:1_._ A GRACIOUS PROMISE TO PROSELYTES AND EUNUCHS. We find ourselves conscious in this oracle of a change of atmosphere and setting. The Temple is built, and the centre of an elaborate ritua...
PLACE: or, trophy. Hebrew hand....
In spite of his disability the God-fearing eunuch shall be recognised as a worthy member of the congregation of Jehovah, and his name shall be had in everlasting honour in the new Israel. _that keep m...
_a place_ A MONUMENT; lit., "a hand." There seems no reason to doubt that the promise is to be understood literally. An illustration of what is meant is found in 2 Samuel 18:18, where we read that Abs...
DISCOURSE: 988 ACCEPTANCE FOR ALL SINCERE WORSHIPPERS Isaiah 56:4. Thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant: Even...
NEITHER LET THE SON OF THE STRANGER, &C.— The _strangers_ and _eunuchs_ were excluded from the privileges of native Jews. In this period they are informed that the time is coming when those distinctio...
C. WORLDWIDE IS THE INVITATION TO COVENANT RELATIONSHIP, CHAPTER 56 1. DISTINCTIONS DESTROYED TEXT: Isaiah 56:1-5 1 Thus saith Jehovah, Keep ye justice, and do righteousness; for my salvation is ne...
Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off. EVEN UNTO THEM...
1, 2. Further conditions to be observed that men may share in the approaching deliverance....
PLACE] RV 'memorial.'...
To be born as a *Jew is to be a member of the *Lord’s *covenant people. But the responsibilities of that membership include the need to obey the *Lord. That is much more important to God than someone’...
The *Jews considered that to have a large family was a sign of God’s pleasure (see Psalms 127:3-5). • In the original language, the word ‘honour’ here translates the very common word for ‘open hand’....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S SPECIAL SERVANT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 49 TO 57 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 56 GOD’S PEOPLE WILL INCLUDE ALL NATIONS V1 (This is what the *Lord says to his people...
EVEN UNTO THEM WILL I GIVE... — The words may refer simply to the spiritual blessedness of the faithful (Revelation 2:17; Revelation 3:5), but the customs of Eastern temples and of the later synagogue...
וְ נָתַתִּ֨י לָהֶ֜ם בְּ בֵיתִ֤י וּ בְ
Isaiah 55:1, Isaiah 56:1 CHAPTER XXII ON THE EVE OF RETURN Isaiah 54:1, Isaiah 55:1,...
BOOK 4 THE RESTORATION WE have now reached the summit of our prophecy. It has been a long, steep ascent, and we have had very much to seek out on the way, and to extricate and solve and load oursel...
THE BLESSEDNESS OF SABBATH-KEEPING Isaiah 56:1-12 The bright array of Messianic promises, which occupied the preceding Chapter s, is now followed by a portion of less interest, seeing that our attent...
This division ends with two Chapter s (56 and 57) which set forth certain aspects of the administration of the Kingdom. The first is intended to comfort those who by recent promises of restoration mad...
The sorrow of Israel was great, if any family or tribe went childless; Jeremiah 22:30. And the reason, over and above the common affliction of barrenness in a house, was, because the prospect Israel l...
5._I will give to them in my house. _Here we see that all men, however unworthy, may obtain admission into the kingdom of God: he alludes to Jerusalem, and to the temple in which the Lord placed a mem...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 55, 56, AND 57. Chapter s 55, 56, 57 are exhortations given in view of these things. Chapter 55 is full free grace, which consequently embraces the Gentiles....
EVEN TO THEM WILL I GIVE IN MINE HOUSE AND WITHIN MY WALLS,.... The Targum is, "in the house of my sanctuary, and in the land of the house of my Shechinah;'' meaning the temple at Jerusalem, in the...
Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off. Ver. 5. _Even un...
_Neither let the son of the stranger_ The Gentile, who by birth is a stranger to God, and to the commonwealth of Israel. _That hath joined himself to the Lord_ That hath turned from dumb idols to the...
ADMONITION AND COMFORT TO THE AFFLICTED...
even unto them will I give in Mine house and within My walls, the Temple as symbolizing His Church, A PLACE AND A NAME BETTER THAN OF SONS AND OF DAUGHTERS, of those who claimed recognition on the bas...
3-8 Unbelief often suggests things to discourage believers, against which God has expressly guarded. Spiritual blessings are unspeakably better than having sons and daughters; for children are a care...
IN MINE HOUSE; in my temple, to serve me there as priests, which eunuchs were not allowed to do, LEVITICUS 21:17, &c.; DEUTERONOMY 23:1. WITHIN MY WALLS; in the courts of my temple, which were encompa...
Isaiah 56:5 give H5414 (H8804) house H1004 walls H2346 place H3027 name H8034 Better H2896 sons H1121 daughters...
THE WELCOME GIVEN TO EUNUCHS AND STRANGERS TO ENTER FULLY INTO THE HOUSE OF YAHWEH (ISAIAH 56:1). God's true people are to live in readiness for the day of deliverance (Isaiah 56:1 b), and one day whe...
CONTENTS: Solemn instruction given to all to make conscience of duty. Charge against the careless and unfaithful. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The more assurance God gives us of the performance of H...
Isaiah 56:1. _Keep ye judgment,_ as a preparation for the Messiah's advent, who is here called, Salvation; and whose righteousness and mercy are the only ground of a sinner's justification, adoption,...
_Even unto them will I give_ GOD GIVES, BUT NOT INDISCRIMINATELY Again and again the Lord says “will I give,” and “ I will give. ” He is always giving; He lives to give. God so loved the world that...
_For thus saith the Lord_ CHARACTERISTICS AND PRIVILEGES OF GOD’S PEOPLE The pride of ancestry, and boast of ceremonial exclusiveness and glorying in the flesh, the Lord, by His prophet, looking for...
_Neither let the son of the stranger_ “THE SON OF THE STRANGER” “The son of the stranger” means simply the individual foreigner (R.., “the stranger”), not one whose father was a foreigner. (_Prof. J...
AN EVERLASTING NAME I will give them an everlasting name. Isaiah 56:5. How many names have you, not counting your surname? I daresay some of you have only one, and wish you had more; others have tw...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 56:1 How to Prepare for the Coming Glory: “Hold Fast My Covenant.” Isaiah helps readers know how to be God’s servants who will live with him forever....
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 56:3 The FOREIGNER does not need to fear God’s rejection if he HAS JOINED HIMSELF TO THE LORD. The EUNUCH, once he is a believer,
CHARACTERISTICS AND PRIVILEGES OF GOD’S PEOPLE Isaiah 56:4. _For thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep My Sabbaths, &c._ The pride of ancestry, and boast of ceremonial exclusiveness, and glo...
JOINED TO THE LORD Isaiah 56:3; Isaiah 56:6. _The sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the Lord_. The end of all worship is union with God. To this most glorious issue all the revelations of...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 56:1 AN EXHORTATION TO OBSERVE THE LAW, ESPECIALLY THE LAW OF THE SABBATH, COMBINED WITH PROMISES
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Isaiah 56:1-12. In Isaiah 55:1-13 the Lord speaks of this glorious everlasting salvation and the glories of His greatness, His power. "As the heavens are higher than...
1 John 3:1; 1 Samuel 1:8; 1 Timothy 3:15; Ephesians 2:22; Hebrews 3:6;...
In mine house — In my temple. Better — A far greater blessing and honour than that of having posterity, even my favour, and my spirit, and eternal felicity....