John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 50:1
Isa 50:1 Thus saith the LORD, Where [is] the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors [is it] to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away. Ver. 1. Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement.] Heb., Abscission. This bill was called by the Greeks ‘ Aποστασιον : but none such could here be produced or proven as given by God to the Jewish state; but that the disloyalty... read more
The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 50:2-6
Isaiah 50:2-6Wherefore, when I came, was there no man?--The Mediator: Divine and humanThese words could have been spoken only by the Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus They place before our thoughts--I. His DIVINE POWER AND GLORY. Power is naturally calm. The power that sustains the universe is, in fact, most wonderful when, unseen, unfelt, with its Divine silence and infinite ease, it moves on in its ordinary course; but we are often most impressed by it when it strikes against... read more