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Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Isaiah 6:1-13

The Lord High and Lifted Up Isaiah 6:1-13 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There is a twofold vision suggested in the first verse of our study. "In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne." That which concerns us is the little word, "also." It definitely suggests that Isaiah had two visions: the one was the death of Uzziah; the other was the life of the Living Lord. The one was a dark picture; the other was a picture radiant with glory. Let us consider this twofold... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 6:8

‘SEND ME’‘Here am I; send me.’ Isaiah 6:8 These words are Isaiah’s response to his Divine call to the prophetic office. It was an extraordinary call to an extraordinary mission. Through the deep waters of conviction and spiritual cleansing he needed to go before he was ready to stand before a sinful world as the representative of God. The initial step in his preparation was:— I. A vision of God.—Uzziah the king, after a brilliant reign of fifty years, had just died. Never since the Queen of... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 6:5-13

Yahweh’s Call To Isaiah (Isaiah 6:5-13 ). As Isaiah stood, or possibly prostrated himself, before the wonderful vision of resplendent holiness, it was all too much for him as he was made aware of his own sinfulness. But God arranged for his cleansing preparatory to calling him to the task that he has in store for him, the proclaiming of God’s message to an ungrateful people, with the promise that it would finally result in a holy seed. Analysis of Isaiah 6:5-13. a Then I said, “Woe is me,... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 6:1-13

Isaiah 6. The Call of Isaiah.— This chapter contains Isaiah’ s own account of his call to the prophetic office. Presumably it was written down some time after the event, but the interval need not have been long, nor have we any real reason for assuming that the account has been coloured by his later experience of failure. The view that he had already for some time been a prophet, and that this vision opens a new stage in his ministry, would deserve consideration only if the order of the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 6:8

Whom shall I send, and who will go for us, to deliver the following message? The change of the number, I and us, is very remarkable; and both being meant of one and the same Lord, do sufficiently intimate a plurality of persons in the Godhead. Here am I; send me: God’s last and great favour to him did both encourage and oblige him to be forward in God’s service. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 6:1-13

THE PROPHET’S CALLIsaiah 6:1-13. In the year that King Uzziah died, &c.We have here the history of Isaiah’s call to his great life-work. Perhaps in a modern biography this chapter would have been placed first. But there was wisdom in placing it where it stands; it was well to give us some insight into the real character of the men among whom Isaiah was called to labour, for thus we are enabled more easily to understand the nature of the mission on which he was sent [688] Studying this... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 6:5-8

THE MORAL HISTORY OF A RISING SOULIsaiah 6:5-8. Then said I, Woe is me, &c.Whilst holiness is the normal, depravity is the actual state of man. A restoration to that spiritual condition is his profoundest necessity, his want of wants. The recovery of holiness involves the recovery of all other good. There seem to be, in the nature of the case, five stages through which the soul must pass in this all-important and glorious transit.I. A VISION OF THE GREAT RULER AS THE HOLIEST OF BEINGS.... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 6:5-9

THE SERVICE OF THE SERAPHIMIsaiah 6:1-2; Isaiah 6:5-7. I saw also the Lord, &c.In that perfect prayer which our Lord bequeathed to His disciples we are taught to ask that God’s will may be done in earth as it is done in heaven. Thus angelic service is set before us as a model and pattern. Not that the services we are called upon to render are the same with those assigned to angels. Their sphere is heaven, ours for the present is the earth; and each of these spheres has its distinct and... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 6:8

VOLUNTEER SERVICEIsaiah 6:8. Then said I, Here am I, send me.This is a chapter of autobiography. Here is disclosed the secret of the wonderful energy with which for more than half a century Isaiah prosecuted his ministry. He is the Paul of the Old Testament. Allowance being made for difference of phraseology, there is a striking resemblance between the call of Isaiah and of Paul (comp. chap. 6 with Acts 9:0). Both sought to serve the heavenly King; and both received a commission to work,... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Isaiah 6:1-8

Isaiah 6:1-8 I. Consider what the prophet saw. He sees Jehovah as Ruler, Governor, King; He is upon a throne, high and lifted up. It is the throne of absolute sovereignty: of resistless, questionless supremacy over all. He is in the temple where the throne is the mercy-seat, between the cherubim; over the ark of the covenant, which is the symbol and seal of friendly communion. His train, the skirts of His wondrous garment of light and love, filled the temple. Above, or upon, that train stood... read more

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