Isaiah 66

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 66:2

And all those things have been "And all these things are mine" - A word absolutely necessary to the sense is here lost out of the text: לי li , mine. It is preserved by the Septuagint and Syriac. read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 66:3

He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man "He that slayeth an ox killeth a man" - These are instances of wickedness joined with hypocrisy; of the most flagitious crimes committed by those who at the same time affected great strictness in the performance of all the external services of religion. God, by the Prophet Ezekiel, upbraids the Jews with the same practices: "When they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it," Ezekiel... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 66:5

Your brethren that hated you - said "Say ye to your brethren that hate you" - The Syriac reads לאחיכם אמרו imru laacheychem ; and so the Septuagint, Edit. Comp. ειπατε αδελφοις ὑμων· and MS. Marchal. has αδελφοις· and so Cyril and Procopius read and explain it. It is not easy to make sense of the reading of the Septuagint in the other editions; ειπατε αδελφοι ἡμων τοις μισουσιν ὑμας· but for ἡμων , our, MS. 1. D. 2 also has ὑμων , your. read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 66:6

A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the Lord - It is very remarkable that similar words were spoken by Jesus, son of Ananias, previously to the destruction of Jerusalem. See his very affecting history related by Josephus, War, B. vi., chap. v. read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 66:8

Who hath seen "And who hath seen" - Twenty MSS., (four ancient), of Kennicott's, and twenty-nine of De Rossi's, and two ancient of my own, and the two oldest editions, with two others, have ומי umi , adding the conjunction ו vau ; and so read all the ancient versions. And who hath seen? read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 66:9

Shall I bring to the birth - אשביר האני haani ashbir , num ego matricem frangam ; Montanus. The word means that which immediately precedes the appearance of the fetus - the breaking forth of the liquor amnii . This also is an expression that should be studiously avoided in prayers and sermons. read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 66:11

With the abundance of her glory "From her abundant stores" - For מזיז mizziz , from the splendor, two MSS. and the old edition of 1488, have מזיו mizziv ; and the latter ז zain is upon a rasure in three other MSS. It is remarkable that Kimchi and Sal. ben Melec, not being able to make any thing of the word as it stands in the text, say it means the same with מזיו mizziv ; that is, in effect, they admit of a various reading, or an error in the text. But as Vitringa observes,... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 66:12

Like a river, and - like a flowing stream "Like the great river, and like the overflowing stream" - That is, the Euphrates, (it ought to have been pointed כנהר cannahar , ut fluvius ille , as the river), and the Nile. Then shall ye suck "And ye shall suck at the breast" - These two words שד על al shad , at the breast, seem to have been omitted in the present text, from their likeness to the two words following; צד על al tsad , at the side. A very probable conjecture of... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 66:15

The Lord will come with fire "Jehovah shall come as a fire" - For באש baesh , in fire, the Septuagint had in their copy קאש kaesh , as a fire; ὡς πυρ . To render his anger with fury "To breathe forth his anger in a burning heat" - Instead of להשב lehashib , as pointed by the Masoretes, to render, I understand it as להשב lehashshib , to breathe, from נשב nashab . read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 66:17

Behind one tree "After the rites of Achad" - The Syrians worshipped a god called Adad, Plin. Nat. Hist. 37:11; Macrob. Sat. 1:23. They held him to be the highest and greatest of the gods, and to be the same with Jupiter and the sun; and the name Adad, says Macrobius, signifies one; as likewise does the word Achad in Isaiah. Many learned men therefore have supposed, and with some probability, that the prophet means the same pretended deity. אחד achad , in the Syrian and Chaldean dialects,... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 66:2

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 66:3

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 66:5

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 66:6

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 66:8

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 66:9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 66:11

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 66:12

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 66:15

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 66:17

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