Isaiah 1:4 - E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Bible Study & Commentary

Verse 4

Ah. Figure of speech Ecphonesis . Note the four exclamatory descriptions, and see note on "gone away", below.

sinful. Hebrew. chata . App-44 .

sinful nation. Note the Figures of speech Apostrophe, Synonymia and Anabasis in verses: Isaiah 1:4 , Isaiah 1:5 . Contrast Exodus 19:6 . Deuteronomy 7:6 ; Deuteronomy 14:2 , Deuteronomy 14:21 .

laden = heavily burdened.

iniquity. Hebrew 'avah. App-44 .

of = consisting of. Genitive of Apposition. App-17 .

corrupters. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:5 ).

forsaken. Apostasy in disposition. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:20 ; Deuteronomy 31:16 ). App-92 . Occurs in the "former" portion here, Isaiah 1:28 ; Isaiah 6:12 ; Isaiah 7:16 ; Isaiah 10:3 (leave), 14 (left); Isaiah 17:2 , Isaiah 17:9 ; Isaiah 18:6 (left); Isaiah 27:10 ; Isaiah 32:14 , and in the "latter" portion, Isaiah 41:17 ; Isaiah 49:14 ; Isaiah 54:6 ; Isaiah 55:7 ; Isaiah 58:2 ; Isaiah 60:15 ; Isaiah 62:4 , Isaiah 62:12 ; Isaiah 65:11 . App-79 .

the Hebrew. Jehovah. (with 'eth) = Jehovah Himself ( App-4 ). Not the same as in verses: Isaiah 1:2 , Isaiah 1:9 , Isaiah 1:10 , Isaiah 1:20 .

provoked = despised, blasphemed. Reference to Pentateuch ( App-92 ). An old Mosaic word (Numbers 14:11 , Numbers 14:23 ; Numbers 16:30 . Deuteronomy 31:20 ). Apostasy in words (see note above).

the Holy One of Israel. Occurs twenty-five times in Isaiah: twelve times in the "former" portion (Isaiah 1:4 ; Isaiah 5:19 , Isaiah 5:24 ; Isaiah 10:20 ; Isaiah 12:6 ; Isaiah 17:7 ; Isaiah 29:19 ; Isaiah 30:11 , Isaiah 30:12 , Isaiah 30:15 ; Isaiah 31:1 ; Isaiah 37:23 ,:); and thirteen times in the "latter" portion (Isaiah 41:14 , Isaiah 41:16 , Isaiah 41:20 ; Isaiah 43:3 , Isaiah 43:14 ; Isaiah 45:11 ; Isaiah 47:4 ; Isaiah 48:17 ; Isaiah 49:7 ; Isaiah 54:5 ; Isaiah 55:5 ; Isaiah 60:9 , Isaiah 60:14 ). Outside Isaiah it is used by Himself once (2 Kings 19:22 first occurrence); three times in the Psalms ( Isa 71:22 ; Isa 89:18 ).

gone away backward. Apostasy in act. See note on Isaiah 1:4 , and notice the threefold apostasy in this verse.

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ethelbert William Bullinger AKC (December 15, 1837 - June 6, 1913) was an Anglican clergyman, Biblical scholar, and ultradispensationalist theologian.He was born in Canterbury, Kent, England, the youngest of five children of William and Mary (Bent) Bullinger. His family traced their ancestry back to Heinrich Bullinger, the Swiss Reformer.His formal theological training was at King's College London from 1860-1861, earning an Associate's degree. After graduation, on October 15, 1861, he married Emma Dobson, thirteen years his senior. He later received a Doctor of Divinity degree in 1881 from Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury who cited Bullinger's "eminent service in the Church in the department of Biblical criticism."Bullinger's career in the Church of England spanned 1861 until 1888. He began as associate curate in the parish of St. Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey in 1861, and was ordained as a priest in the Church of England in 1862. He served as parish curate in Tittleshall from 1863-1866; Notting Hill from 1866-1869; Leytonstone, 1869-1870; then Walthamstow until he became vicar of the newly established parish of St. Stephen's in 1874. He resigned his vicarage in 1888.In the spring of 1867, Bullinger became clerical secretary of the Trinitarian Bible Society, a position he would hold till his death in 1913. Bullinger was editor of a monthly journal Things to Come subtitled A Journal of Biblical Literature, with Special Reference to Prophetic Truth. The Official Organ of Prophetic Conferences for over 20 years (1894-1915) and contributed many articles.... Show more

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