以賽亞書 28:23-28 CUNPTS

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 28:27

God in material things illustrates God in moral things. The precise purpose for which this illustration from agricultural customs is introduced by the prophet is ranch disputed. We note that Isaiah declares the skill which the farmer shows in choosing his times and adapting his methods, comes directly from God; and this suggests two points for treatment. I. MAN PLAINLY WANTS GOD FOR THE GETTING OF HIS DAILY BREAD . II. HOW MUCH MORE , THEN , DOES HE ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 28:28

Bread corn is braised ; literally, bread ; but no doubt the corn, from which bread is made, is meant. Most critics regard the clause as interrogative, "Is bread corn bruised?"—and the answer as given in the negative by the rest of the sentence, "No; he will not continue always threshing it, nor crunch it with his cart-wheel and his horses—he will not bruise it." Even where the rougher modes of threshing are employed, there is moderation in their employment. Care is taken not to injure... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 28:28

The use of tribulation. "Bread-corn is bruised." Tribulation must thresh our lives. And when the chaff is separated from the wheat, then the corn must be bruised and broken. It is not the outwardly peaceful, comfortable life that has in it the elements of ministry. The Savior was a Man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. He is brought near to us as being not of the seed of angels, but of the seed of Abraham. How were those sensibilities of his nature bruised with the hardness, coldness,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 28:23

Give ye ear - In this verse the prophet introduces an important and striking illustration drawn from the science of agriculture. It is connected with the preceding part of the chapter, and is designed to show the propriety of what the prophet had said by an appeal to what they all observed in the cultivation of their lands. The previous discourse consists mainly of reproofs and of threatenings of punishment on God’s people for their profane contempt of the messengers of God. He had threatened... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 28:24

Doth the plowman ... - The question here asked implies that he does “not” plow all the day. The interrogative form is often the most emphatic mode of affirmation.All day - The sense is, does he do nothing else but plow? Is this the only thing which is necessary to be done in order to obtain a harvest? The idea which the prophet intends to convey here is this. A farmer does not suppose that he can obtain a harvest by doing nothing else but plow. There is much else to be done. So it would be just... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 28:25

When he hath made plain ... - That is, when he has leveled, or made smooth the surface of the ground by harrowing, or rolling it.Doth he not scatter abroad - He does not sow one kind of grain merely, but different species according to the nature of the soil, or according to his wishes in regard to a crop.The fitches - (קצח qetsach). Vulgate, Gith; a kind of cockle (Nigella Romana), an herb of sweet savor. Septuagint, Μικρόν μελάνθιον Mikron melanthion. The word ‘fitch’ denotes a small species... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 28:26

For his God doth instruct him ... - Margin, ‘He bindeth it in such sort as his God doth teach him.’ The more correct idea is conveyed in the text. The word יסרו yiserô, properly means, he instructs, admonishes, or teaches him. The idea that skill in agriculture is communicated by God is not one that is discordant to reason, or to the general teachings of the Bible. Thus the achitectural and mechanical skill of Bezaleel and Aholiab, by which they were enabled to make the tabernacle, is said... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 28:27

For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument - The word used here (חרוּץ chârûts) denotes properly that which is pointed or sharp, and is joined with מורג môrag in Isaiah 41:15 - meaning there the threshing dray or sledge; a plank with iron or sharp stones that was drawn by oxen over the grain (compare 2 Samuel 24:22; 1 Chronicles 21:23). In the passage before us, several methods of threshing are mentioned as adapted to different kinds of grain, all of which are at the... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 28:28

Bread corn - Hebrew, לחם lechem - ‘Bread.’ But the word evidently denotes the material from which bread is made. The word is used in the same sense in Isaiah 30:23.Is bruised - That is, is more severely bruised than the dill and the cummin; it is pressed and crushed by passing over it the sledge, or the wain with serrated wheels. The word דקק dâqaq means often to break in pieces; to make small or fine. It is, however, applied to threshing, as consisting in beating, or crushing (Isaiah 41:15 :... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 28:23-25

Isaiah 28:23-25. Give ye ear Observe what I say, and do you judge if it be not reasonable. “We have here the last member of this section, in which this severe judgment of God, denounced in the preceding verses, is defended by a parable taken from agriculture, wherein the prophet represents allegorically the intentions and methods of the divine judgments.” “As the husbandman uses various methods in preparing his land, and adapting it to the several kinds of seed to be sown, with a due... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 28:27

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 28:28

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 28:28

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 28:23

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 28:24

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 28:25

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 28:26

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 28:27

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 28:28

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 28:23-25

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