THE SUN-DIAL OF AHAZ

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ft894. “While most modern writers detach the three preceding verses and prefix them to this chapter, Hitzig goes to the opposite extreme of saying that the writer here begins afresh, without any visible connection with the previous context. Ewald more reasonably makes this a direct continuation, but observes a change of tone, from that of joyous confidence to that of penitent confession, on the part of the believing Jews, in reference to their former incredulity.” - Alexander.

ft895. “Au pere celeste.” “To the heavenly Father.”

ft896. “Je ne voy point de raison pourquoy OEcolampade a traduit, II a expose ses hants lieux au riche.” “I see no reason why OEcolampadius translated it, ‘He laid open his high places to the rich man.’”

ft904. “En nos articles de foy.” “In our articles of faith.”

ft905. Our author evidently speaks of what is usually called “The Apostle’s Creed.” - Ed.

ft906. Comme les hommes sont incontinent destournez du droit chemin.” “As men are quickly turned aside from the right path.”

ft907. Le Sainct d’Israel, qui est ton Redempteur, sera appele le Dieu de toute la terre, ou, Le Sainct d’Israel sera appele ton Redempteur et Dieu de toute la terre.” “The Holy One of Israel, who is thy Redeemer, shall be called the God of the whole earth, or, The Holy one of Israel shall be called thy Redeemer, and God of the whole earth.”

ft919. “Spend. Hebrews Weigh.” (Eng. Ver.) “In the first clause there is reference to the primitive custom of weighing instead of counting money, from which have arisen several of the most familiar denominations, such as the Hebrew ‘shekel,’ the Greek ‘talent,’ the French ‘livre,’ and the English ‘pound.’ The essential idea here is that of paying.” - Alexander.

ft936. Commentary on Isaiah, Vol. 1 ft937. “Admonneste les fideles.”

ft938. “Ausquels la grace a este faite.” “To whom grace hath been given.”

ft939. “The essential meaning of this verse is, that all external disabilities shall be abolished, whether personal or national. To express the latter, he makes use of the phrase בן נכר, (ben nekar,) which strictly means not ‘the son of the stranger,’ as the common version has it, but ‘the son of strangeness,’ or ‘of a strange country;’ נכר (nekar) corresponding to the German Fremde, which has no equivalent in English. - Alexander ft961. “They consult the priests and prophets as to those laws and statutes about which there is any uncertainty, as if they were afraid of breaking the commandments of God through ignorance. - Rosenmuller.

ft972. “I1 n’a point change de nature.” “He has not changed his nature.”

ft973. “Que la moindre partie de leur corps est souillee d’extorsion.” “That the smallest part of their body is tainted with extortion.”

ft974. “Pour debatre.” “To debate.”

ft975. “De desloyaute et traison.” “For disloyalty and treason”

ft976. “These are (παροιμιώδη) proverbial expressions, and mean that bad men have taken destructive counsels, as if the eggs of serpents, which ought to be crushed by those who meet with them, were purposely hatched by some person, in order that poisonous animals might, in due time, be produced by them for the destruction of men.” — Rosenmuller.

ft977. “Having introduced the spider’s web, in connection with the serpent’s egg, as an emblem of malignant and treacherous designs, he here repeats the first, but for another purpose, namely, to suggest the idea of futility and worthlessness. This application may have been suggested by the frequent refrence to webs and weaving as conducive to the comfort and emolument of men; but spiders’ webs can answer no such purpose. The idea that it is not fit or cannot be applied to this end, although not exclusively expressed, is really included in the general declaration that they shall not be so used - Alexander.

ft978. Maistres passez.” “Acknowledged masters.”

ft979. “Mais c’est sans parler.” “But it is without speaking.

ft980.”Pour piller et brigander.” “For thieving and higbway-robbery.”

ft981. “J. D. Michaelis and Umbreit go to opposite extremes in their interpretation of the first clause. The former makes the way of peace denote the way to happiness; the latter understands the clause to mean that they refuse all overtures of reconciliation. The obvious and simple meaning is, that their lives are not. pacific but contentious.” Alexander.

ft982. “Comme s’il accordoit qu’elles fassent vrayes.” “As if he admitted that they were true.”

ft983. “A witness interrogated by a judge, or even speaking of his own accord, is said, ענה, (gnanah,) ‘to answer.’ The same forIn of expression occurs in Isaiah 3:9; Jeremiah 14:7; Hosea 7:10.” — Rosenmuller.

ft984. “Lowth translates אתנו, (ittanu,) ‘cleave fast unto us; ‘but interpreters generally prefer the sense expressed in the English Version, (they are with us, that is, in our sight, or present to our memory.)” - Alexander. “Our sins are well known to us.” - Doederlein.

ft985. “What they think in their heart, and utter from the thought to speech and to action, that is, their thoughts, and words, and actions, are falsehoods.” - Kimchi.

ft986. “If you render the Hebrew words thus, ‘Withdrawing from evil, he maketh himself a prey,’ that is, ‘Whosoever shuns vices, exposes himself as a prey to the wicked,’ you will have a meaning which leaves nothing to desire.” - Rosenmuller.

ft987. “Doit neeessairement estre aussi mechant qu’eux.” “Must unavoidably be as wicked as they are.”

ft988. “And now, when God repents on account of the evil which he has brought on the people, he sees that there is not a righteous man to stand in the gap. (Ezekiel 22:30)” - Jarchi. “Rosenmuller, Umbrett, and others, follow Jarchi in supposing איש (ish) to be emphatic and to signify a man of the right sort, a man equal to the occasion. This explanation derives some color from the analogy of Jeremiah 5:1; but even there, and still more here, the strength of the expression is increased rather than diminished by taking this phrase in the simple sense of nobody. What was wanted was not merely a qualified man, but any man whatever, to maintain the cause of Israel and Jehovah.” - Alexander.

ft989. The verb אשתומם (yishtomem) denotes a man who stands, and wonders, and remains silent through his wonder.” - Jarchi.

ft990. “De mort.” “From death.”

ft991. “Whether כי (ki) be rendered when or for, the sense remains essentially the same, because the one implies the other. The only weighty reasons for preferring the latter are, first, its natural priority as being the usual and proper sense, and then the simplicity of structure which results from it as being more accordant with the genius and usage of the language.” - Alexander.

ft992. “Et ce ne sont pas les ignorans seulement qui font cela, ains ceux qui veulent estre estimez les plus subtils entre eux.” “And it is not ignorant persons only who do this, but those who wish to be reckoned the most ingenious among them.”

ft993. “Au chapitre precedent.” “In the preceding chapter.”

ft994. “There is more probability in Knobel’s suggestion, that the Prophet made his picture true to nature by describing the sons as walking, and the daughters as being carried.” - Alexander.

ft995. “As to נהר, (nahar,) the difficulty is in choosing between its two admitted senses of ‘flowing,’ (Isaiah 2:2) and of ‘shining,’ (Psalm 34:5) The former is preferred by Jerome, who translates it afflues; by Junius and Tremellius, who have conflues; and by the English and Dutch versions, the latter of which refers it to the confluence of crowds produced by any strange occurrence. Vitringa makes it mean to flow out, and Lowth to overflow with joy. But all the latest writers of authority give the word the same sense as in Psalm 34:5, which is well expressed by Henderson in strong though homely English, thou shalt look and brighten up.” — Alexander.

ft996. “Qui la fait reluire.” “Which causes it to shine.”

ft997. “It is a fine conception of Vitringa, that the ships expressly mentioned in the next verse are here described, on their first appearance at a distance, resembling with their outspread sails and rapid course a fleecy cloud driven by the wind, and a flight of doves returning to their young.” - Alexander.

ft998. “The ideas conveyed by the images here employed are those of number and velocity. The reference to the doves is beautifully illustrated by a passage in Morier’s Second Journey in Persia. Speaking of the pigeon-houses near Ispahan, he says: ‘They are large round towers, rather broader at the bottom than the top, crowned by conical spiracles, through which the pigeons descend. Their interior resembles a honey-comb, pierced with a thousand holes, each of which forms a snug retreat for a nest. The extraordinary flights of pigeons which I have seen upon one of these buildings, afford perhaps a good illustration of Isaiah 60:8. Their great numbers, and the compactness of their mass, literally looked like a cloud at a distance, and obscured the sun in their passage.’ The persons referred to are the Jews, who now flock in immense numbers from all quarters to the land of their fathers, and Jerusalem, the summit of their earthly joy.” Henderson.

ft1008. “S’il veut contrefaire le docteur, et n’a doctrine ni savoir.” “If he wishes to counterfeit the teacher, and has not any doctrine or knowledge.”

ISAIAH TRANSLATION

Or, Have rebelled against me; or, Have revolted against me.

Or, Have provoked to anger.

Or, Guide.

Or, Dwelt.

Or, The Governor.

Otherwise, Your god.

Or, With antiquity.

Or, Thou wilt not forgive them.

Or, To what? or, How much?

Or, Skilled in mysterious style.

Or, Against them.

Or, Let us be called by thy name.

Or, To life.

Or, Reduced to silence.

Or, With the pen of a man.

(Hebrew,) Immanuel.

Or, Strengthening.

Or, Secure.

Or, Without me they shall stumble.

Or, With righteousness.

Or, Powerfully.

Or, Will be.

Or, Of salvation.

Or, From a strong destroyer.

Or, That didst weaken the nations.

Or, To the Arabians.

Or, His indignation.

Or, Her choicest branches.

Or, Shall fall.

Or, Transparent.

Or, Shall serve with the Assyrians.

Or, Their beauty.

Or, What hast thou now?

Or, From a distance.

Or, As the creditor, so the debtor.

Or, Of the violent ones.

Or, As a flood.

Or, The singing; or, The cutting off.

Or, Thou, who art upright, wilt weigh (or, wilt direct) the path of the righteous man.

Or, Earnestly.

Or, Thou wilt overthrow the land of the giants; or, The earth will cause the giants to fall.

Or, Who shall set the brier against the thorn? or, Who shall set me as a brier And thorn?

Or, Shall cut it down.

Or, Plummet.

Or, Agitation of mind.

Or, He will make a noise.

Or, Perverse.

Or, That they may pour out a pouring out.

Or, Begone!

Or, Who is to him a fire.

Or, The measures are evil.

Or, Burnt lime.

Or, The wicked.

Or, Who instead of us?

Or, Of our assemblies.

Or, For if.

Or, He will come with the recompense of God.

Or, To the forest of his plain.

Or, My ring.

Or, While he was worshipping in the temple of Nisroch, his god.

Or, Give charge to thy house.

“Et Ezechias pleura amerement.” “And Hezekiah wept bitterly.”

Or, Through leanness; or, Through sickness; or, By taking away.

Or, I determined; or, I laid down.

Or, I shall walk trembling.

Or, Thou hast loved my soul from the pit of destruction.

Or, Now.

Or, Her misery is ended.

Or, Was saying.

Or, None shall be wanting.

Or, Why wouldst thou say?

Or, Surely.

Or, Thy Protector.

Or, May be astonished.

Or, I will uphold him.

Or, The mighty.

Or, These words.

“Ce suis-je, ce suis-je.” “It is I, it is I.”

Or, Surely.

“Ce suis-je, ce suis-je.” “It is I, it is I.”

Or, The tongs.

Or, By myself.

Or, I will ungird.

Or, Only.

Or, Ye distant.

Or, Take courage.

Or, a thought.

Or, As a man.

Or, In the multitude.

“Et tu ne sqauras d’ou il viendra.” “And thou shalt not know whence it shall come.”

Or, Hath upheld.

Or, They shall stand up.

Or, It is work.

“Ce suis-je, ce suis-je.” “It is I, it is I”

Or, Sinim.

Or, Barren.

Or, The righteous captivity.

Or, Of trembling.

Or, Of trembling.

Or, More than men.

Or, More than the sons of men.

Or, In his medicine.

Or, Oppressed.

Or, He shall see posterity.

Or, By the knowledge of him.

Or, The Holy One of Israel shall be called the Redeemer And God of the whole earth.

Or, As the days of Noah.

Or, Weigh out.

Or, The thorn.

Or, The Elm.

Or, With the gods.

Or, In parts of the river.

Or, Shall I repent of these things?

Or, Shall be concealed, or, Shall fail.

Or, The unprofitable speech.

Or, Of vanity. And the work of violence is in their hands.

Or, Thoughts of iniquity.

Or, Our sins answer to us.

Or, Interceded.

Or, Made.

Or, Shall chase him away.

Or, The multitude of the sea.

Or, Strength.

Or, Strength.

Or, To adorn.

Or, To the meek.

Or, That celebrate the memory.

Or, In all their affliction there was no affliction.

Or, As by a burning fire that melteth.

Or, We have been saved.

Or, For I am holier than thou.

Or, Jehovah is severe, or, Jehovah shall be glorified.