Isaiah 55:3 continued And let Me make an EVERLASTING COVENANT with you, the trustworthy kindnesses of David [THROUGH TESHUVA- PSALM 51-DAVID'S PUBLIC CONFESSION, AS PER WHAT DAVID DID WHEN HE WAS WALKING AGAINST YAHWEH and also Israel's descendants -Isaiah 27:9=gross idolatry= CHURCH WORSHIP...
with its royal, sacerdotal, and festal (Song of Solomon 3:11, Isaiah 28:1, Herm. Sim. viii. 2) associations, would call up civic and athletic honours to the local Christians, the latter owing to the famous games at Smyrna, the former from the fact that στ. frequently occurs also...
fancied (see on Isaiah 29:3), but which he occupied and fortified.add ye year to year] i.e. “let a year or two more come and go”: cf. Isaiah 32:10. The discourse was probably delivered at the leading festival, the Feast of Tabernacles, which was the “turn of the year” (...
(Strike these reprobate ones.) Relenting is hid from my eyes.” It should be remembered that St. Paul quoted from Isaiah, “Death shall be swallowed up in victory,” and then, as here, calls in derisive irony upon death and Sheol to do their very worst at the very moment when they a...
but declares that whatever shall happen will be his own work. So Isaiah, that he may ascribe to God alone the glory due to him, attributes to him, both the revealing of things future, and the government of ail his events, by his own authority. (Isaiah 45:7.) For he cries aloud tha...