Isaiah 6:2

Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. ABOVE IT (OR, ABOVE HIM) STOOD - not necessarily the posture of standing; rather were in attendance on Him, hovering on expanded wings. THE - not in the Hebrew. SERAPHIM, [ sªraapiym (H8314)] - nowhere else applied to God's attendant angels; but to the fiery flying (not winged, but rapidly moving) serpents which bit the Israelites (Numbers 21:6): called so from the poisonous inflammation caused by their bites. Saarap (H8313) is to burn; implying the burning zeal, dazzling brightness of appearance ...

2._And the seraphim stood upon it. _Having declared that God appeared to him full of majesty and of glory, he adds, that God was attended by angels, whom the Prophet calls _seraphim _on account of their fervor. Though the etymology of this word is well known, yet various reasons are adduced. Some think that they are called _seraphim _because they burn with the love of God; others, because they are swift like fire; others, because they are bright. However that may be, this description holds out to us, as in sunbeams, the brightness of God’s infinite majesty, that we may learn by it to behold and adore his wonderful and overwhelming glory. Many think that there were two _seraphim_, as there were two cherubim that encompassed the ark of the testimony. This opinion I willingly adopt, though I do not venture to make any assertion where Scripture is silent. As it is customary with the sacred w...

1-8 In this figurative vision, the temple is thrown open to view, even to the most holy place. The prophet, standing outside the temple, sees the Divine Presence seated on the mercy-seat, raised over the ark of the covenant, between the cherubim and seraphim, and the Divine glory filled the whole temple. See God upon his throne. This vision is explained, John 12:41, that Isaiah now saw Christ's glory, and spake of Him, which is a full proof that our Saviour is God. In Christ Jesus, God is seated on a throne of grace; and through him the way into the holiest is laid open. See God's temple, his church on earth, filled with his glory. His train, the skirts of his robes, filled the temple, the whole world, for it is all God's temple. And yet he dwells in every contrite heart. See the blessed attendants by whom his government is served. Above the throne stood the holy angels, called seraphim...

Verse Isaiah 6:2. _ABOVE IT STOOD THE SERAPHIM_] שרפים _seraphim_, from שרף _seraph_, to _burn_. He saw says _Kimchi_, the angels as flames of fire, that the depravity of that generation might be exhibited, which was worthy of being totally burnt up. _HE COVERED HIS FEET_ - "He covereth his feet"] By the _feet_ the Hebrews mean all the lower parts of the body. But the people of the East generally wearing long robes, reaching to the ground, and covering the lower parts of the body down to the feet, it may hence have been thought want of respect and decency to appear in public and on solemn occasions with even the feet themselves uncovered. _Kempfer_, speaking of the king of Persia giving audience, says, Rex in medio supremi atrii cruribus more patrio inflexis sedebat: corpus tunica investiebat flava, ad suras cum staret protensa; dis

ABOVE IT - Either above the throne, or above him. The Septuagint renders it, ‘Round about him’ - κύκλῳ αὐτοῦ _kuklō_ _autou_. The Chaldee, ‘The holy ministers stood on high in his presence.’ THE SERAPHIMS - The verb שׂרף _s'âraph_, from which this word is derived, is uniformly translated “to burn,” and is used frequently; see “Taylor.” The noun שׂרף _s'ârâph_ denotes, according to Bochart, the “chersydros,” a serpent that lives in lakes and moist places; but when those places are dried up, it becomes a land serpent, and then its bite is very fierce, and is attended with a most dreadful inflammation all over the body. Rabbi Solomon says, that ‘serpents are called seraphim because they burn people with the poison of their teeth,’ perhaps because the idea of “heat and

SECTION III. ISAIAH'S VISION OF GOD UPON HIS THRONE (Isaiah 6:1.). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 6:1 THE VISION OF GOD SEEN BY ISAIAH. It is thought by some that this vision, and its sequel, constitute the original call of Isaiah to the prophetical office, and in order of time precede all the other contents of the book. But the position of the "vision" in the book is strongly against this view. Prophets who relate their original call naturally place it in the forefront of their narrative ...

ABOVE IT STOOD THE SERAPHIMS,.... Not above the temple, nor above the throne, much less above him that sat upon it, but either "by him", on the right hand and on the left, as Aben Ezra; or "near him", as Kimchi and Ben Melech; or "before him", as the Targum; or "round about him", as the Septuagint; all which denote the ministering form in which they stood; by whom are meant, not the Son and Spirit, as some of the ancients thought, who imagined the Father to be the Person sitting on the throne; nor the two Testaments, as Jerom; nor angels, which is the common interpretation; but ministers of the Gospel, the same with the four beasts in Revelation 4:6 and the four living creatures in Ezekiel 1:5 the Jewish commentators in general agree that these are the same with Ezekiel's living creatures; so Jarchi, Aben Ezr

Isaiah 6:1. _In the year that King Uzziah died_ You remember him, that leprous king, that king who had thrust himself into the priests' office, and was smitten of leprosy, and shut up in a separate house during the rest of his life. In the year that he died Isaiah saw a greater King, whom no defilement can ever touch, a King that reigneth and lives for ever, though Uzziah dies. Isaiah 6:1. _I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple._ Whenever you read in the Old Testament that any man saw the Lord, understand it of the Second Person of the Divine Trinity, the Lord Jesus Christ. He makes himself as we have said, visible to men, and God in him....

SERAPHIMS Hebrew, Burners. The word occurs only here. (_ See Scofield) - (Ezekiel 1:5). _ The Seraphim are, in many respects, in contrast with the Cherubim, though both are expressive of the divine holiness, which demands that the sinner shall have access to divine presence only through a sacrifice which really vindicates the righteousness of God. (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:24). _ (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:25). _ (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:26) _ and that the saint shall be cleansed before serving. ...

CHAPTER 6 The Prophet's Vision and New Commission 1. _The time of the vision (Isaiah 6:1)_ 2. _Jehovah of hosts (Isaiah 6:2)_ 3. _The prophet's woe (Isaiah 6:5)_ 4. _The cleansing (Isaiah 6:6)_ 5. _“Here am I. Send me.” (Isaiah 6:8)_ 6. _The new commission (Isaiah 6:9)_ 7. _The limitation of the judgment (Isaiah 6:11)_ Note the eight steps: vision, conversion, self-ju