Isaiah 6:1-3

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 6:1-5

REVELATIONS OF GODIsaiah 6:1-5. In the year that King Uzziah died I saw, &c. [700][700] The scene of the Vision is the Temple, and its features will have been the same whether we suppose them to have risen before Isaiah’s imagination while he was absent from the spot, in the solitude of his chamber or his house-top, or assume (as I myself prefer to do), that he was actually praying in the Temple at the time.Though it is unlikely that any of the successors to what was but a small remnant of... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 6:1-7

ISAIAH’S VISIONIsaiah 6:1-7. In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord, &c. [712][712] God is invisible; yet in that heavenly world in which He has His special and eternal residence He manifests Himself in ineffable glory, dwelling in what the Scriptures call “the light which no man can approach unto.” Of that heavenly world, the tabernacle and temple were splendid emblems; they were “patterns of heavenly things.” But why the astonishing fact, that when sinful creatures erected... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 6:1-13

THE PROPHET’S CALLIsaiah 6:1-13. In the year that King Uzziah died, &c.We have here the history of Isaiah’s call to his great life-work. Perhaps in a modern biography this chapter would have been placed first. But there was wisdom in placing it where it stands; it was well to give us some insight into the real character of the men among whom Isaiah was called to labour, for thus we are enabled more easily to understand the nature of the mission on which he was sent [688] Studying this... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 6:2

THE SERAPHIMIsaiah 6:2. Above it stood the seraphim [721] each had six wings, &c.[721] As those that are nearest of a king’s attendants stand behind his throne or chair of state, at his elbow.—Day.This is the only passage of Scripture in which the seraphim are mentioned. According to the orthodox view, which originated with Dionysius the Areopagite, they stand at the head of the nine choirs of angels, the first rank consisting of seraphim, cherubim, and throni. And this is not without... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 6:2-4

THE SERAPHIM AND THEIR SONGIsaiah 6:2-4. And above it stood the seraphim, &c.I. THE SERAPHIM.—The Scriptures disclose to us the fact that there is a spiritual world, vast and variously populated, superior to this world, yet connected with it and exerting upon it powerful influences. Little beyond the fact is made known to us; few details are granted us; yet glimpses into it have been vouchsafed, and among the most interesting and instructive of them is our text.Only here do we read of... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Isaiah 6:1

Isaiah 6:1 I. "I saw the Lord," etc. Some of you may have been watching a near and beautiful landscape in the land of mountains and eternal snows, till you have been exhausted by its very richness, and till the distant hills which bounded it have seemed, you knew not why, to limit and contract the view; and then a veil has been withdrawn, and new hills, not looking as if they belonged to this earth, yet giving another character to all that does belong to it, have unfolded themselves before you.... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Isaiah 6:1-2

Isaiah 6:1-2 I. The spiritual or angelic life on earth consists not only of devotion. The seraph himself, though indeed the spirit of adoration is upon him always, is not always engaged in direct acts of praise. "With twain he did fly," speed forth, like lightning, upon the errands on which God sends him. There is a deep-seated necessity for work in the constitution of our nature. One of the greatest thinkers of antiquity defined happiness to be "an energy of the soul." The reason why activity... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Isaiah 6:1-3

Isaiah 6:1-3 We have here in this wondrous vision the proper inauguration of the great evangelical prophet to his future work. I. First, he gives the date of the vision. "In the year that king Uzziah died I saw the Lord." What would he say but this: "In the year when the crowned monarch of the earth went down into the dust and darkness of the tomb, and all the pomp and pageantry which had surrounded him for a little while dissolved and disappeared, I saw another king, even the King Immortal,... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Isaiah 6:1-8

Isaiah 6:1-8 I. Consider what the prophet saw. He sees Jehovah as Ruler, Governor, King; He is upon a throne, high and lifted up. It is the throne of absolute sovereignty: of resistless, questionless supremacy over all. He is in the temple where the throne is the mercy-seat, between the cherubim; over the ark of the covenant, which is the symbol and seal of friendly communion. His train, the skirts of His wondrous garment of light and love, filled the temple. Above, or upon, that train stood... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Isaiah 6:2

Isaiah 6:2 Is it not strange, that of those parts of an angel's figure, which seem as if they were made only for action, four out of six are used for an entirely different purpose? It is to teach us, that it is not every power which we have and which we might think given us for public service, and for the outer life which is really intended by God for that use. Never think that large faculties are fitted only for large enterprises, and that all your endowments are to be spent on that which is... read more

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