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<p id="Chapter46" align="center">Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET<br>CHAPTER 46
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<p id="Isa46_1"><a onclick="return mV('Isa',46,'1-13');">Isa 46:1-13</a>. BABYLON'S IDOLS COULD NOT SAVE THEMSELVES, MUCH LESS HER. BUT GOD CAN AND WILL SAVE ISRAEL: CYRUS IS HIS INSTRUMENT.
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<p><b>1. Bel</b>—the same as the Phoenician Baal, that is, lord, the chief god of Babylon; to it was dedicated the celebrated tower of Babylon, in the center of one of the two parts into which the city was divided, the palace being in the center of the other. Identical with the <i>sun,</i> worshipped on turrets, housetops, and other high places, so as to be nearer the heavenly hosts (<i>Saba</i>) (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',19,13);">Jer 19:13</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',32,29);">32:29</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Zep',1,5);">Zep 1:5</a>). GESENIUS identifies Bel with the planet Jupiter, which, with the planet Venus (under the name Astarte or Astaroth), was worshipped in the East as the god of fortune, the most propitious star to be born under (see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Isa/Isa065.html#Isa65_11">Isa 65:11</a>). According to the Apocryphal book, <i>Bel and the Dragon,</i> Bel was cast down by Cyrus.
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<br><br><b>boweth...stoopeth</b>—falleth prostrate (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',10,4);">Isa 10:4</a>; <a onclick="return mV('1Sa',5,3-4);">1Sa 5:3-4</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',20,8);">Psa 20:8</a>).
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<br><br><b>Nebo</b>—the planet Mercury or Hermes, in astrology. The scribe of heaven, answering to the Egyptian Anubis. The extensive worship of it is shown by the many proper names compounded of it: Nebuchadnezzar. Nebuzar-adan, Nabonassar, etc.
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<br><br><b>were upon</b>—that is, were <i>a burden</i> (supplied from the following clause) upon. It was customary to transport the gods of the vanquished to the land of the conquerors, who thought thereby the more effectually to keep down the subject people (<a onclick="return mV('1Sa',5,1);">1Sa 5:1</a>, etc. <a onclick="return mV('Jer',48,7);">Jer 48:7</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',49,3);">49:3</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Dan',11,8);">Dan 11:8</a>).
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<br><br><b>carriages</b>—in the Old English sense of <i>the things carried, the images borne by you:</i> the lading (<a onclick="return mV('Act',21,15);">Act 21:15</a>), "carriages," not the vehicles, but the baggage. Or, the images <i>which used to be carried by you</i> formerly in your solemn processions [MAURER].
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<br><br><b>were heavy loaden</b>—rather, <i>are put as a load on</i> the beasts of burden [MAURER]. HORSLEY translates, "They who should have been your <i>carriers</i> (as Jehovah is to His people, <a onclick="return mV('Isa',46,3,4);">Isa 46:3-4</a>) are become <i>burdens</i>" (see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Isa/Isa046.html#Isa46_4">Isa 46:4</a>).
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<p id="Isa46_2"><b>2. deliver</b>—from the enemies' hands.
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<br><br><b>burden</b>—their images laid on the beasts (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',46,1);">Isa 46:1</a>).
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<br><br><b>themselves</b>—the <i>gods,</i> here also distinguished from their images.
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<p id="Isa46_3"><b>3.</b> in contrast to what precedes: Babylon's idols, so far from <i>bearing</i> its people safely are themselves <i>borne off, a burden</i> to the laden beast; but Jehovah <i>bears</i> His people in safety even from the womb to old age (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',63,9);">Isa 63:9</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Deu',32,11);">Deu 32:11</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',71,6,18);">Psa 71:6, 18</a>). God compares Himself to a nurse tenderly carrying a child; contrast Moses' language (<a onclick="return mV('Num',11,12);">Num 11:12</a>).
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<p id="Isa46_4"><b>4. old age</b>—As "your"—"you"—"you," are not in the <i>Hebrew,</i> the sentiment is more general than <i>English Version,</i> though of course it <i>includes</i> the Jews from the infancy to the more advanced age of their history (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',47,6);">Isa 47:6</a>).
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<br><br><b>I am he</b>—that is the same (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',102,27);">Psa 102:27</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jhn',8,24);">Jhn 8:24</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Hbr',13,8);">Hbr 13:8</a>).
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<br><br><b>I will bear...carry</b>—Not only do I not need to be <i>borne</i> and <i>carried</i> Myself, as the idols (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',46,1);">Isa 46:1</a>).
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<p id="Isa46_5"><b>5.</b> (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',40,18,25);">Isa 40:18, 25</a>).
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<p id="Isa46_6"><b>6.</b> (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',40,19,20);">Isa 40:19-20</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',41,7);">41:7</a>.) They lavish gold out of their purses and spare no expense for their idol. Their profuseness shames the niggardliness of professors who worship God with what cost them nothing. Sin is always a costly service.
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<p id="Isa46_7"><b>7. cry...can...not...save</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',45,20);">Isa 45:20</a>, with which contrast <a onclick="return mV('Isa',45,19);">Isa 45:19</a>).
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<p id="Isa46_8"><b>8. show yourselves men</b>—Renounce the <i>childishness</i> of idolatry as shown in what precedes (<a onclick="return mV('1Cr',14,20);">1Cr 14:20</a>; <a onclick="return mV('1Cr',16,3);">16:13</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Eph',4,14);">Eph 4:14</a>). In order to be <i>manly</i> we must be <i>godly;</i> for man was made "in the image of God," and only rises to his true dignity when joined to God; <i>virtue</i> is derived from the <i>Latin vir,</i> "a man."
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<br><br><b>bring...to mind</b>—rather, "lay it to heart."
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<br><br><b>transgressors</b>—addressed to the idolaters among the Jews.
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<p id="Isa46_9"><b>9. former</b>—namely, proofs of the sole Godship of Jehovah, from predictions fulfilled, and interpositions of God in behalf of Israel (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',45,5);">Isa 45:5</a>).
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<p id="Isa46_10"><b>10.</b> (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',45,21);">Isa 45:21</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',41,22,23);">41:22-23</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',44,26);">44:26</a>).
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<br><br><b>yet</b>—not in the <i>Hebrew.</i> Translate, "What had not been done" [HORSLEY].
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<br><br><b>do all my pleasure</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',53,10);">Isa 53:10</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rom',9,19);">Rom 9:19</a>).
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<p id="Isa46_11"><b>11. ravenous bird</b>—Cyrus so called on account of the rapidity of his marches from the distant regions of Persia to pounce on his prey (see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Isa/Isa041.html#Isa41_2">Isa 41:2</a>; JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Isa/Isa041.html#Isa41_25">Isa 41:25</a>; JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Jer/Jer049.html#Jer49_22">Jer 49:22</a>; JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Eze/Eze017.html#Eze17_3">Eze 17:3</a>). The standard of Cyrus, too, was a golden <i>eagle</i> on a spear (see the heathen historian, XENOPHON, 7, where almost the same word is used, <i>aetos,</i> as here, <i>ayit</i>).
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<br><br><b>executeth my counsel</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',44,28);">Isa 44:28</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',45,13);">45:13</a>). Babylon represents, mystically, the apostate faction: the destruction of its idols symbolizes the future general extirpation of all idolatry and unbelief.
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<br><br><b>purposed...also do it</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',43,13);">Isa 43:13</a>).
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<p id="Isa46_12"><b>12. stout-hearted</b>—stubborn in resisting God (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',76,5);">Psa 76:5</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Act',7,51);">Act 7:51</a>).
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<br><br><b>far from righteousness</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',59,9);">Isa 59:9</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Hab',2,4);">Hab 2:4</a>).
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<p id="Isa46_13"><b>13. near</b>—antithetical to "far" (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',46,12);">Isa 46:12</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',51,5);">Isa 51:5</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',56,1);">56:1</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',61,10,11);">61:10-11</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rom',10,'6-8');">Rom 10:6-8</a>).
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<br><br><b>righteousness</b>—answering to "salvation" in the parallel clause; therefore it means here, "my righteous deliverance"; righteous, because proving the <i>truth</i> of God's promises, and so contrived as to not compromise, but vindicate, His righteousness (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',42,21);">Isa 42:21</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rom',3,26);">Rom 3:26</a>).
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<br><br><b>Zion...my glory</b>—rather, "I will give salvation in Zion; to Israel (I will give) my glory" [HORSLEY]. (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',63,11);">Isa 63:11</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',14,7);">Psa 14:7</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Luk',2,32);">Luk 2:32</a>).
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