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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:20

The Christian view of age. These words are not to be taken literally; they are distinctly pictorial, highly hyperbolical; they indicate a state of future blessedness, employing images most likely to be impressive and inspiring at the time of utterance. They may suggest to us the Christian aspect of old age. I. THAT CHRISTIAN LIFE TENDS TO LENGTH OF DAYS , Health, and therefore life, depends most on habit. What shortens life is folly, irregularity, excess, anxiety,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:20

The woe of aged sinners. There are three special periods of life in which men are peculiarly exposed to the power of temptation and sin. Most men that fall, fall either into young men's perils, full-grown, men's indulgences, or old men's sins. A pure, humble, godly old man is one of the noblest sights to be seen under heaven. And by so much as that is beautiful, a godless, characterless, debased old man is a shame and contempt. "A hoary head is a crown of glory if it be found in the way of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:21

They shall build houses, and inhabit them . The curse pronounced on apostasy in Deuteronomy 28:30 shall no more rest on God's people. They shall have the fruition of their labours. No enemy shall be able to deprive them of their crops and houses. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:22

As the days of a tree are the days of my people. Trees endure for many hundreds, perhaps for thousands of years. The cedars of Lebanon, the oaks of Bashan, were known to have an antiquity of centuries. Isaiah may have had a knowledge of other trees to which attached the tradition of a yet longer existence. In our own day Brazil and California have furnished proofs of vegetable growths exceeding a millennium. Mine elect shall long enjoy; literally, shall wear out ; i.e. have the full ... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 65:20

There shall be no more thence - The Septuagint, the Syriac, and the Vulgate, read this, ‘There shall not be there.’ The change requires the omission of a single letter in the present Hebrew text, and the sense seems to demand it. The design of the prophet here is, to describe the times of happiness and prosperity which would succeed the calamities under which the nation had been suffering. This he does by a great variety of images, all denoting substantially the same thing. In Isaiah 65:17, the... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 65:21

And they shall build houses - (See the notes at Isaiah 62:8-9). read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 65:22

They shall not build, and another inhabit - Every man shall enjoy the avails of his labor.For as the days I of a tree are the days of my people - That is, in that future time, such shall be the length of the lives of the people (see Isaiah 65:21). The Septuagint renders this, ‘The days of the tree of life.’ The Syriac, ‘As the days of trees.’ The Chaldee as the Septuagint. The idea is, that the lives of his people would be greatly prolonged (see the notes at Isaiah 65:20). A tree is among the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 65:20

Isaiah 65:20. There shall be no more thence an infant of days, &c. There shall he no untimely or premature deaths, either of infants and children, who do not grow up to man’s estate, or of old men, who do not live out the full term of life. For the child shall die, &c. This should rather be translated, For he that dies a hundred years old shall die a child: and the sinner that dies a hundred years old shall be (that is, shall be deemed) accursed, or cut off by the justice of... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 65:21-23

Isaiah 65:21-23. They shall build houses and inhabit them The prophet here describes another privilege of the church in these happy days. They shall enjoy blessings the very reverse of the curses denounced on the disobedient, Deuteronomy 28:30. They shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them. See note on Isaiah 62:8. They shall not plant and another eat Which might happen, either through their enemies seizing the fruits of the trees they planted, or through their own premature... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 65:17-25

A new creation (65:17-25)Israel’s condition in the time of the prophet is then contrasted with conditions in the new Jerusalem, the kingdom of the Messiah. That kingdom is not an improved version of the old Israelite kingdom, but is something entirely new. It is a new creation, where the quality of life will be different from that of the present world. Sorrow will be replaced by rejoicing. Life will not be cut short except where God acts in judgment (17-20).In the new creation people will have... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:20

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:20

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:21

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:22

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 65:20

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 65:21

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 65:22

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 65:20

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 65:21-23

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 65:17-25

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