Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Isaiah 8:16
(r) Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
(r) Though all forsake me, yet you who are mine keep my word sure sealed in your hearts.
(r) Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
(r) Though all forsake me, yet you who are mine keep my word sure sealed in your hearts.
Verse Isaiah 8:16. _AMONG MY DISCIPLES._] בלמדי _belimmudai_. The _Septuagint_ render it του μη μαθειν. Bishop _Chandler_, Defence of Christianity, p. 308, thinks they read מלמד, _that it be not_ _und...
BIND UP - This expression is one that is applicable to a volume, or roll of writing. Thus far the prophet seems to have had the roll opened, which is mentioned in Isaiah 8:1. Now the prophecy is compl...
CHAPTER 8 Jehovah's Word Through Isaiah and the Assyrian Announced 1. _The divine instruction and Maher-shalal-hash-baz (Isaiah 8:1)_ 2. _The Assyrian to come (Isaiah 8:5)_ 3. _The answer of faith (I...
MORE EXTRACTS ON THE CRISIS FROM ISAIAH'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY. It is not clear how many bits of the autobiography are included here, but the section for the most part probably deals with the coalition of Sy...
TESTIMONY. LAW. No Art. either here or in Isaiah 8:20. Note the Structure, above, and the _Introversion_ of these two words. See note on Isaiah 1:10. DISCIPLES. instructed ones....
Cf. ch. Isaiah 30:8; Daniel 12:4. _Bind up … seal_ The imperatives can only be understood as a command of Jehovah to Isaiah, as in Isaiah 8:1 ff. But in the next verse Isaiah himself is the speaker, a...
The prophet, recognising the failure of his work as regards the nation, prepares a written record of his teaching, and deposits this as a sealed document in the custody of his disciples. By this solem...
BIND UP THE TESTIMONY— _Engrave the testimony, seal up the law in my disciples._ There seems no doubt that the person here introduced speaking is God the Father, in whose will the Messiah immediately...
THE PEDAGOGY Isaiah 8:16-22 TEXT: Isaiah 8:16-22 16 Bind thou up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. 17 And I will wait for Jehovah, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and...
Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid. The words of Yahweh. Verse 12. SAY YE NOT, A CONFEDERACY - rather. A...
BIND UP] i.e. tie up the parchment roll on which the prophet's teaching has been written, and lay it aside to be consulted later. THE TESTIMONY] i.e. the inspired admonition which the prophet has just...
1. TAKE, etc.] read 'Take thee a great tablet, and write upon it with the pen of a man, Maher-shalal-hash-baz.' A MAN'S PEN] i.e. such as a common man would use for writing in large characters that al...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS ISAIAH DECLARES HOW GOD’S PEOPLE SHOULD BE LIVING ISAIAH CHAPTER S 1 TO 9 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 8 ISAIAH’S SON WILL BE A SIGN TO THE PEOPLE V1 The *Lord sen...
BIND UP THE TESTIMONY... — The intensity of feeling in which the prophetic utterance of Isaiah 8:11 had its birth, is followed by a corresponding solemnity at its close. The words which had been so fu...
צֹ֖ור תְּעוּדָ֑ה חֲתֹ֥ום תֹּורָ֖ה בְּ לִמֻּדָֽי׃...
CHAPTER VI KING AND MESSIAH; PEOPLE AND CHURCH 735-732 B.C. Isaiah 7:8, 9:Isaiah 7:1 THIS section of the book of Isaiah (Chapter s 7-9:7) consists of a number of separate prophecies uttered during...
FEAR GOD'S POWER, NOT MAN'S Isaiah 8:5-18 It seems likely that Syria and Samaria attacked Ahaz because he would not join in a federation against the growing power of Assyria. A strong party seems to...
In this section we have the account of how the prophet turns from his more public ministry to devote himself to a small circle of believing souls. This departure was signalized by his writing on a tab...
_Disciples. Let some faithful witnesses keep this prophecy, (Haydock) that when it is verified, all may be convinced._...
I pray the Reader to observe with me, the tender care of God over his people, in times of general calamity. In these verses, the Prophet is commissioned to comfort the Lord's mourners; and a precious...
16._Bind up the testimony. _The Lord now turns his discourse to the Prophet, and encourages him, while he must contend against apostates and rebels, to discharge his office with boldness and persevera...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9:1-7. But this requires further development; and it is given in a remarkable manner in the next prophecy, comprised in Chapter s 7, 8, 9 to the end...
BIND UP THE TESTIMONY,.... These are not the words of the prophet, as Kimchi thinks, but of the Lord to the prophet, and are part of that instruction given him, Isaiah 8:11. By "the testimony" is mean...
Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. Ver. 16. _Bind up the testimony, seal the law, &c._] _Et lateat, et lucent._ let it both be hidden and be conspicuous. Let thy doctrine, saith...
_Bind up the testimony_ There seems no doubt that the person here introduced speaking, is God the Father. By _the testimony_, and _the law_ or _doctrine_, the prophet understands one and the same thin...
WARNING AGAINST FALSE TESTIMONY...
Bind up the testimony, so the Lord says to Immanuel, the Messiah, or directly to Isaiah, SEAL THE LAW AMONG MY DISCIPLES, so that the Word of the Lord is sealed and kept safe through the power of the...
9-16 The prophet challenges the enemies of the Jews. Their efforts would be vain, and themselves broken to pieces. It concerns us, in time of trouble, to watch against all such fears as put us upon c...
These are, by the consent of all, God's words to the prophet. _By the testimony and the law or doctrine_ (for so this word is frequently taken) he understands one and the same thing, as he doth also t...
Isaiah 8:16 up H6887 (H8798) testimony H8584 Seal H2856 (H8798) law H8451 disciples H3928 Bind up -...
MEANWHILE ISAIAH AND HIS FOLLOWERS ARE NOT TO ALIGN THEMSELVES WITH ANY POLITICAL PARTY. ALL ARE HEADING FOR DISASTER. RATHER HE MUST SEAL THE TESTIMONY OF YAHWEH (ISAIAH 8:11). In the light of this f...
CONTENTS: Predictions of the Syrian invasion and of the desolations of Judah and Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Israel, Uriah, Zechariah, Maher, Shalal-hash-baz, Rezin, sons of Remaliah. CONCLUSION: If a n...
Isaiah 8:1. _Take thee a great roll._ Lowth reads, a large mirror. The Chaldaic has _scripturam claram,_ a fair writing, which might be on a polished plate; but the Versions read as the English. Isaia...
_Bind up the testimony_ “BIND UP THE TESTIMONY” There is evidently a reference in the text to wares or merchandise which are very valuable, and which must be bound up and sealed, to preserve them fr...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 8:16 The difference between the remnant (vv. Isaiah 8:16) and the hardened nation (vv. Isaiah 8:19)
THE DUTY OF TEACHERS OF TRUTH IN TIMES OF NATIONAL PERVERSION Isaiah 8:16 In Hebrews 2:13 the commencement of Isaiah 8:18 is quoted as an utterance of the Messiah. This opens up questions concerning...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 8:1 THE SIGN OF MAHER-SHALAL-HASH-BAZ. The sign of Immanuel was recondite. In its more spiritual sense it appealed to faith in an event far distant. Even in its literal import, it w...
So in chapter 8 he continues in this prediction of the Assyrian invasion. Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz (Isaia...
1 Corinthians 2:14; 1 John 5:9; 2 Kings 11:12; Daniel 12:10; Dan
The testimony — By the testimony and the law or doctrine, he understands one and the same thing, as he doth also, Isaiah 8:20, the word of God, and especially that which is the main scope thereof, the...