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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:1

I am sought ; rather, inquired of , or consulted (comp. Ezekiel 14:3 ; Ezekiel 20:3 , Ezekiel 20:31 ). The application of the text by St. Paul ( Romans 10:20 ) to the calling of the Gentiles will be felt by all believers in inspiration to preclude the interpretation which supposes Israel to be the subject of Isaiah 65:1 no less than of Isaiah 65:2-7 . I said, Behold me . This was the first step in the conversion of the Gentiles. God called them by his messengers, the... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:1-3

Divine reproaches. In the two previous chapters we find. the prophet, pleading in the name of Israel, had urged that God kept strange silence when his people were so long held captive, and their land lay so desolate. In this chapter we have the Divine answer to the prophet's plea. There was good reason for the long delay. Instead of the people reproaching their God, their God might much more reasonably reproach them, for they had rejected his long and earnest appeals; they had put the... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:1-7

SECTION XI .— GOD 'S ANSWER TO THE EXILES ' PRAYER ( Isaiah 65:1-25 .) ISRAEL 'S SUFFERINGS THE JUST MEED OF THEIR SINS . God's mercy is such that it even overflows upon those who are outside the covenant ( Isaiah 65:1 ). It has been offered to Israel, but Israel has rejected it . Their rebellion, their idolatries, and their pride have caused, and must continue to cause, their punishment ( Isaiah 65:2-7 ). read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:1-7

The offensiveness and the doom of sin. The passage brings out in a very graphic form— I. THE OFFENSIVENESS OF SIN . 1 . Assumption. "Walking after their own thoughts" instead of reverently inquiring God's will ( Isaiah 65:2 ). 2 . Positive disobedience in the manner of Divine worship ( Isaiah 65:3 ). 3 . Superstitious practices , implying discontent with the disclosures God had made in his holy Word ( Isaiah 65:4 ). 4 . Irreligious self-indulgence ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:1-10

Threatenings and promises. Both, as it would appear, addressed to the chosen people, though many, including St. Paul, apply the earlier part of the passage to the conversion of the Gentiles. There is a polytheistic party, and a party of true believers in the nation. I. GOD BEFOREHAND WITH MEN . He "allows himself to be consulted;" he "offers answers," or "is heard" by those who came not to consult him. He was "at hand to those who did not seek him." To a nation that did not... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:2

I have spread out my hands. Not exactly in prayer, but in expostulation (comp. Proverbs 1:24 , "I have stretched out my hand," where the verb in the Hebrew is the same). All the day; or, all day long , as in Romans 10:21 ; i.e. continually, day after day, for years—nay, for centuries. A rebellions people (comp. Isaiah 30:1 ; and see also Isaiah 1:4 , Isaiah 1:23 ; Hosea 4:16 ; Jeremiah 5:23 ; Jeremiah 6:28 ). The "rebellions people" ( 'am sorer ) is undoubtedly... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:3

That sacrificeth in gardens (comp. Isaiah 1:29 ; Isaiah 57:5 ; Isaiah 66:17 ). The groves and "gardens" of Daphne, near Antioch. became famous in later times as the scene of idolatrous practices intimately bound up with the grossest and most shameless sensualism. We have few details of the ancient Syrian rites; but there is reason to believe that, wherever Astarte, the Dea Syra, was worshipped, whether at Daphne, or at Hierapolis, or at Balbek, or at Aphek, or at Damascus, or in... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:4

Which remain among the graves . The rock tombs of Palestine seem to be meant. Persons " remained among" these, in spite of the ceremonial defilement thereby incurred, either with the object of raising the dead, and obtaining prophecies from them, or of getting prophetic intimations made to them in dreams (see Jerome's 'Comment.,' ad loc. ) . And lodge in the monuments ; or, in the crypts. " N'tsurim may refer to the mysteries celebrated in natural caves and artificial crypts"... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:5

Stand by thyself ; i.e. "keep aloof—come not into contact with me; for mine is a higher holiness than thine, and I should be polluted by thy near approach." Initiation into heathen mysteries was thought to confer on the initiated a holiness unattainable otherwise. Thus the heathenized Jew claimed to be holier than the true servants of Jehovah. These are a smoke … a fire (comp. Psalms 18:8 , "There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured; coals were... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:5

The hopeless. The husbandman is often tempted to tear up the vine, or to pluck up the herb, or to plough up the crop, when patience and painstaking would result in flower and fruit. In the spiritual world, it is often found that where death seemed to prevail, there was life beneath the surface. I. THE APPEARANCE OF SPIRITUAL DEATH . The Church is so degenerate, that the teaching of Divine truth is found to be ineffectual; the nation so corrupt, that the statesman and the... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:1-3

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:1-7

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:1-7

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:1-10

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:5

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:5

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