isaiah-6:1-13,-philippians-3:13-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 6:9-13

The shadow of sacred truth. We may view these words in— I. THEIR NATIONAL ASPECT . Thus regarded, they point to: 1. Painful and guilty obduracy. The prophet should speak, but the people would disregard; all that was froward and perverse in them would repel and reject the Divine message; their reception of the truth would only end in spiritual deterioration and greater moral distance than ever from deliverance ( Isaiah 6:9 , Isaiah 6:10 ). 2. Protracted impenitence and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 6:10

Make the heart of this people fat. Isaiah is commanded to effect by his preaching that which his preaching would, in fact, effect. It would not awaken the people out of their apathy, it would not stir them to repentance; therefore it would only harden and deaden them. The words have a national, not an individual, application. Shut their eyes ; literally, besmear their eyes ; or, seal them up . Such sealing has been employed by Oriental monarchs as a punishment. And convert ; ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 6:11

Then said I, Lord, how long? Either, "How long am I to continue this preaching?" or, "How long is this blindness and callousness of the people to continue?" Isaiah assumes that he has not heard as yet God's final purpose; that there is some merciful intention kept in reserve, which is to take effect after the close of the period of judgment. The cities … the houses; rather, cities … houses . An entire desolation of the whole land, and extermination of its inhabitants, is not... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 6:11-13

The loving-kindness of God shown in his judgments. "I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are right , and flat thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me," says the psalmist ( Psalms 119:75 ). No doubt, at last God must simply punish the obdurate and impenitent; but for the most part he sends his judgment upon men in mercy, either to turn them from their sins, or to refine and improve their characters. I. EVEN WHEN GOD SIMPLY PUNISHES , IT IS IN LOVING - KINDNESS TO ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 6:12

And the Lord have removed men far away. The Assyrian and Babylonian policy of deportation is pointed at. Pul had attacked the kingdom of Israel ten or twelve years before Uzziah's death, and had perhaps made the Assyrian policy known, though he had allowed himself to be bought off ( 2 Kings 15:19 , 2 Kings 15:20 ). And there be a great forsaking ; rather, and the desolation be great ; i.e. till a great portion of Judah be depopulated. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 6:13

But yet in it shall be a tenth , etc.; rather, and should there still be in it a tenth ; i.e. should there still remain, after the great deportation, a tenth part of the inhabitants, "this again shall be burned up," i.e. shall be destined to further judgment and destruction. The trials of the Jewish nation under the Persian, Egyptian, and Syrian monarchies may be intended. As a teil tree, and as an oak , etc.; rather, as the terebinth tree and as the oak—trees which shoot up again... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 6:1

In the year - This naturally denotes a period after the death of Uzziah, though in the same year. The mention of the time was evidently made when the prophecy was composed, and it is to be presumed that the death of Uzziah had occurred at the time when the prophet saw this vision. If so, it is clear that this was not the first of his prophecies, for he saw his visions ‘in the days of Uzziah;’ Isaiah 1:1. The Chaldee, however, reads this: ‘in the year when Uzziah was smitten with the leprosy;’... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 6:2

Above it - Either above the throne, or above him. The Septuagint renders it, ‘Round about him’ - κύκλῳ αὐτοῦ kuklō autou. The Chaldee, ‘The holy ministers stood on high in his presence.’The seraphims - The verb שׂרף s'âraph, from which this word is derived, is uniformly translated “to burn,” and is used frequently; see “Taylor.” The noun שׂרף s'ârâph denotes, according to Bochart, the “chersydros,” a serpent that lives in lakes and moist places; but when those places are dried up, it... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 6:3

And one cried to another - Hebrew ‘This cried to this.’ That is, they cried to each other in alternate responses. One cried ‘holy;’ the second repeated it; then the third; and then they probably united in the grand chorus, ‘Full is all the earth of his glory.’ This was an ancient mode of singing or recitative among the Hebrews; see Exodus 15:20-21, where Miriam is represented as going before in the dance with a timbrel, and the other females as following her, and “answering,” or responding to... read more

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 6:4

And the posts of the door - Margin, ‘Thresholds.’ There is some difficulty in the Hebrew here, but the meaning of the expression is sufficiently apparent. It means that there was a tremour, or concussion, as if by awe, or by the sound attending the cry. It is evidently a poetic expression.The house - The temple.Was filled with smoke - There is here, doubtless, a reference to “the cloud” that is so often mentioned in the Old Testament as the visible symbol of the Divinity; see the note at Isaiah... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 6:9-13

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 6:10

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 6:11

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 6:11-13

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 6:12

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 6:13

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 6:1

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 6:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 6:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 6:4

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