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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 28:23-29

This parable, which (like many of our Saviour's parables) is borrowed from the husbandman's calling, is ushered in with a solemn preface demanding attention, He that has ears to hear, let him hear, hear and understand, Isa. 28:23. I. The parable here is plain enough, that the husbandman applies himself to the business of his calling with a great deal of pains and prudence, secundum artem?according to rule, and, as his judgment directs him, observes a method and order in his work. 1. In his... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 28:26

For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him. God gives the husbandman instruction and discretion how to sow his seed, at what time, and in a proper place; for this refers to what goes before; though some think a new act is here intended, namely, threshing or beating out of corn, rendering the words, "and he" (the husbandman) "beateth it out, according to the discretion", or "judgment, his God teaches him" F8 "Excutit illud ad eam rationem, quam Deus, ipsius docet... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 28:26

For his God doth instruct him - All nations have agreed in attributing agriculture, the most useful and the most necessary of all sciences, to the invention and to the suggestions of their deities. "The Most High hath ordained husbandry, "saith the son of Sirach, Ecclus. 7:15. Namque Ceres fertur fruges, Liberque liquoris Vitigeni laticem mortalibus instituisse read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 28:23-29

A PARABLE TO COMFORT BELIEVERS . Isaiah is always careful to intermingle promises with his threats, comfort with his denunciations. Like his great Master, of whom he prophesied, he was fain not to "break the bruised reed" or "quench the smoking flax." When he had searched men's wounds with the probe, he was careful to pour in oil and wine. So now, having denounced the sinners of Judah through three long paragraphs (verses 7-22), he has a word of consolation and encouragement for the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 28:23-29

Proverbial lore. The ploughman's activity and the thresher's are set before the people as a parable of Israel's tribulations. At least, this is one of the views of the passage. I. THE PURPOSE OF AFFLICTION . It is from God, and the end ever kept in view is the good of the soul and its productiveness. The ploughman does not plough for ploughing's sake. He opens the soil, turns up the furrows, breaks the clods with the harrow, and all to prepare for the sowing of the seed. And so... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 28:23-29

Divine discrimination. There are two preliminary lessons we may gather from these verses before we pluck the principal one. I. THAT IN THE ACTS AND INDUSTRIES OF MAN WE MAY FIND APT ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE WISDOM OF GOD . "Give ear and hear" ( Isaiah 28:23 ). There is something well worth observing in human husbandry; it will teach the student a useful lesson respecting the ways of God. Not only from the lilies of the field and from the birds of the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 28:24-28

The analogy of Divine to human methods of working. Isaiah's comparison in this chapter rests wholly upon the assumption of an analogy between God's dealings and man's, when the latter are such as are consonant with reason. Reason, the highest gift of God to man, be assumes to be an adumbration of some quality in the Divine nature, which bears a real resemblance to it. "Reason cometh forth from the Lord of hosts." It is the voice of God speaking in the soul of man. Let man follow it, and his... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 28:26

For his God doth instruct him . Through the reason which God has given to men, they deal thus prudently and carefully with the pieces of land which they cultivate. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 28:26

For his God doth instruct him ... - Margin, ‘He bindeth it in such sort as his God doth teach him.’ The more correct idea is conveyed in the text. The word יסרו yiserô, properly means, he instructs, admonishes, or teaches him. The idea that skill in agriculture is communicated by God is not one that is discordant to reason, or to the general teachings of the Bible. Thus the achitectural and mechanical skill of Bezaleel and Aholiab, by which they were enabled to make the tabernacle, is said... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 28:26

Isaiah 28:26. For his God doth instruct him The art of husbandry is so necessary for the support of human life, that all men have ascribed its original to God as the inventor and ordainer of it. The Most High hath ordained husbandry, saith the son of Sirach, Sir 7:15 . In like manner, Virgil, Georg., lib. 1. line 121: “ Pater ipse colendi Haud facilem esse viam voluit, primusq; per artem Movit agros .” “Himself invented first the shining share, And whetted human industry by care;... read more

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