Isaiah 32:5

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), 1 Samuel 25:25). SHALL BE NO MORE CALLED LIBERAL (Hebrew, nadiyb (H5081)) - princely noble-minded. NOR THE CHURL - fraudulent (Gesenius) [ kiylay (H3596), from naakal ...

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 government is wicked, covetous persons are in power, and are honored and esteemed, because men judge of virtue by wealth and power; a poor man is everywhere despised, though he be truly upright and bountiful to the full extent of his ability; and, in a word, in such a state of things there is nothing but disorder and confusion. But good government quickly detects such pretences and masks; for, where virtue is esteemed, vices are immediately exposed. Good men also have greater freedom allowed them in restraining the wantonness of those who formerly trod under their feet all that is just and lawful. When the Prophet speaks here about the condition and reformation of the Church, which is a spiritual go...

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 affords refreshing shade and shelter to the weary traveller in the desert, so his power, truth, and love, yield the believer the only real protection and refreshment in the weary land through which he journeys to heaven. Christ bore the storm himself, to keep it off from us. To him let the trembling sinner flee for refuge; for he alone can protect and refresh us in every trial. See what pains sinners take in sin; they labour at it, their hearts are intent upon it, and with art they work iniquity; but this is our comfort, that they can do no more mischief than God permits. Let us seek to have our hearts more freed from selfishness. The liberal soul devises liberal things concerning God, and desir...

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 fellow, who eats to live, and lives to eat; who will scarcely part with any thing, and that which he does give he gives with an evil eye and a grudging heart. _Liberal _- נדיב nadib; the generous, openhearted, princely man, who writes on all his possessions, _For myself and mankind_, and lives only to _get_ and to _do_ good. _The churl _- כילי kilai, the avaricious man; he who starves himself amidst his plenty, and will not take the necessaries of life for fear of lessening his stock. Thus he differs from נבל _nabal_, who feeds himself to the full, and regards no one else; like the rich man

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 designated, very appropriately, as a fool. SHALL BE NO MORE CALLED LIBERAL - It is probable that under the reign of former princes, when all views of right and wrong had been perverted, people of unprincipled character had been the subjects of flattery, and names of virtue had been attributed to them by their friends and admirers. But it would not be so under the virtuous reign of the prince here celebrated. Things would be called by their right names, and flattery would not be allowed to attribute to people, qualities which they did not possess. NOR THE CHURL - The word ‘churl’ means properly a rude, surly, ill-bred man; then a miser, a niggard. The Hebrew word mean

SECTION VIII. A PROPHECY OF MESSIAH'S KINGDOM (Isaiah 32:1). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 32:1 A PROPHECY OF MESSIAH'S KINGDOM. It is generally allowed that this prophecy is Messianic; but some critics insist that it is not so "in a narrow sense." They regard Isaiah as expecting Messiah's kingdom to follow immediately on the discomfiture of Sennacherib, and as looking to Hezekiah to inaugurate it. According to this view, Hezekiah, renovated in character, was to be the Messiah, and might have been so had he been "equal to the demands providentially made upon him." But he was not; and the task of establishing

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 flattered with such a title, so unbecoming him. The sense seems to be, that, in Gospel times, such who are fools as to the knowledge of spiritual things, that have no spiritual and experimental knowledge of the truths of the Gospel, but are quite ignorant of them, shall not be made princes, or spiritual rulers, and governors in the house of God; NOR THE CHURL SAID [TO BE] BOUNTIFUL; or called a lord, as Jarchi interprets the word; which, he says, is used of such an one, because all men look to him, and respect him f; but now a covetous and tenacious man, that withholds more than is meet, that keeps, all he has to himself, without communicating to others, and scarcely allows himself the necessari...

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 hope of the future (Isaiah 32:15)_ The connection with the previous chapter is obvious. In Isaiah 31:4 the coming of the Lord for the deliverance of His people and the punishment of their enemies is predicted. “So shall the Lord of Hosts come down to fight Mount Zion and the hill thereof.” And now in the beginning of chapter 32 th

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 into two parts: (_a_) Isaiah 32:1, (_b_) Isaiah 32:9. The date of the former is uncertain. It may belong to the same period as Isaiah 28-31. The address to the women which follows recalls the denunciation in Isaiah 3:16, but it does not necessarily belong to the same period. And it too may belong to the same period as Isaiah 28-31. There is no need to detach the Messianic passage, Isaiah 32:15, from it....

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. _nabal._ See note on Proverbs 1:7 and on 1 Samuel 25:3. LIBERAL. noble. CHURL. miser, or covetous. Note the _Alternation_ in verses: Isaiah 32:5:. | 5-. vile.. |-5. churl.. |6. vile.. | 7. churl....