John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 6:1
In the year that King Uzziah died ,.... Which was the fifty second year of his reign, and in the year 3246 from the creation of the world; and, according to Jerom F12 Epist. Damaso, tom. 3. fol. 37. K. , was the year in which Romulus, the founder of the Roman empire, was born: some understand this not of his proper death, but of his being stricken with leprosy, upon his attempt to burn incense in the temple; upon which he was shut up in a separate house, which was a kind of a civil... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 6:1-4
The vision which Isaiah saw when he was, as is said of Samuel, established to be a prophet of the Lord (1 Sam. 3:20), was intended, 1. To confirm his faith, that he might himself be abundantly satisfied of the truth of those things which should afterwards be made known to him. This God opened the communications of himself to him; but such visions needed not to be afterwards repeated upon every revelation. Thus God appeared at first as a God of glory to Abraham (Acts 7:2), and to Moses, Exod.... read more