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Joseph Exell

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

John Trapp

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

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 50:2

Isa 50:2 Wherefore, when I came, [was there] no man? when I called, [was there] none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because [there is] no water, and dieth for thirst. Ver. 2. Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? ] Christ "came unto his own, but his own received him not." Joh 1:11 This was condemnation, Joh 3:19 their rebelling against... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 50:3

Isa 50:3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering. Ver. 3. I clothe the heavens with blackness. ] I did so in that three days’ darkness in Egypt, Exo 10:21-22 and shall do so again at the time of my passion. I can therefore, doubtless, deliver you, not only from Babylon, but from sin, death, and hell, by giving you an entrance into heaven by the waters of baptism, and by bringing you out of darkness into my marvellous light. 1Pe 2:9 And make sackcloth their... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Isaiah 50:1

the bill: Deuteronomy 24:1-Numbers :, Jeremiah 3:1, Jeremiah 3:8, Hosea 2:2-Numbers :, Mark 10:4-2 Kings : or which: Exodus 21:7, Leviticus 25:39, Deuteronomy 32:30, 2 Kings 4:1, Nehemiah 5:5, Esther 7:4, Psalms 44:12, Matthew 18:25 Behold: Husbands often sent bills of divorcement to their wives on slight occasions; and fathers, oppressed with debt, sold their children till the year of release. But this, saith God, cannot be my case: I am not governed by any such motives, nor am I urged by... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Isaiah 50:2

when I came: Isaiah 59:16, Isaiah 65:12, Isaiah 66:4, Proverbs 1:24, Jeremiah 5:1, Jeremiah 7:13, Jeremiah 8:6, Jeremiah 35:15, Hosea 11:2, Hosea 11:7, John 1:11, John 3:19 Is my: Isaiah 59:1, Genesis 18:14, Numbers 11:23 have I: Isaiah 36:20, 2 Chronicles 32:15, Daniel 3:15, Daniel 3:29, Daniel 6:20, Daniel 6:27 at my: Psalms 106:9, Nahum 1:4, Mark 4:39 I dry: Isaiah 42:15, Isaiah 43:16, Isaiah 51:10, Isaiah 63:13, Exodus 14:21, Exodus 14:29, Joshua 3:16, Psalms 107:33, Psalms... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Isaiah 50:3

Exodus 10:21, Psalms 18:11, Psalms 18:12, Matthew 27:45, Revelation 6:12 Reciprocal: Jeremiah 4:28 - the heavens Nahum 1:4 - rebuketh Mark 15:33 - darkness read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Isaiah 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.Thus saith the Lord — The scope of this and the next chapter, is to vindicate God's justice and to convince the Jews that they were the causes of their own calamities.Behold — You can blame none but yourselves and your own sins, for all your... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Isaiah 50:2

Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.Wherefore — The general accusation delivered in the last words he now proves by particular instances.When — When I, first by my prophets, came to call them to repentance.No man — That complied... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Isaiah 50:3

I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.I clothe — When it is necessary to save my people, I cover them with thick and dark clouds black as sackcloth, Revelation 6:12. read more

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