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<p id="Chapter25" align="center">Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET<br>CHAPTER 25
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<p id="Isa25_1"><a onclick="return mV('Isa',25,'1-12');">Isa 25:1-12</a>. CONTINUATION OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH CHAPTER. THANKSGIVING FOR THE OVERTHROW OF THE APOSTATE FACTION, AND THE SETTING UP OF JEHOVAH'S THRONE ON ZION.
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<p>The restoration from Babylon and re-establishment of the theocracy was a type and pledge of this.
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<p><b>1. wonderful</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',9,6);">Isa 9:6</a>).
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<br><br><b>counsels of old</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',42,9);">Isa 42:9</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',46,10);">46:10</a>). Purposes planned long ago; here, as to the deliverance of His people.
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<br><br><b>truth</b>—<i>Hebrew, Amen;</i> covenant-keeping, faithful to promises; the peculiar characteristic of Jesus (<a onclick="return mV('Rev',3,14);">Rev 3:14</a>).
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<p id="Isa25_2"><b>2. a city...heap</b>—Babylon, type of the seat of Antichrist, to be destroyed in the last days (compare <a onclick="return mV('Jer',51,37);">Jer 51:37</a>, with <a onclick="return mV('Rev',18,'1-24');">Rev 18:1-24</a>, followed, as here, by the song of the saints' thanksgiving in <a onclick="return mV('Rev',19,'1-21');">Rev 19:1-21</a>). "Heaps" is a graphic picture of Babylon and Nineveh as they now are.
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<br><br><b>palace</b>—Babylon regarded, on account of its splendor, as a vast palace. But MAURER translates, "a citadel."
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<br><br><b>of strangers</b>—foreigners, whose capital pre-eminently Babylon was, the metropolis of the pagan world. "Aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, <i>strangers</i> from the covenants of promise" (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',29,5);">Isa 29:5</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Eph',2,12);">Eph 2:12</a>; see in contrast, <a onclick="return mV('Joe',3,17);">Joe 3:17</a>).
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<br><br><b>never be built</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',13,19,20);">Isa 13:19-20</a>, etc.).
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<p id="Isa25_3"><b>3. strong people</b>—This cannot apply to the Jews; but other nations on which Babylon had exercised its cruelty (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',14,12);">Isa 14:12</a>) shall worship Jehovah, awed by the judgment inflicted on Babylon (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',23,18);">Isa 23:18</a>).
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<br><br><b>city</b>—not Babylon, which shall then be destroyed, but collectively for the <i>cities</i> of the surrounding nations.
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<p id="Isa25_4"><b>4. the poor...needy</b>—the Jews, exiles from their country (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',26,6);">Isa 26:6</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',41,17);">41:17</a>).
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<br><br><b>heat</b>—calamity (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',4,6);">Isa 4:6</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',32,2);">32:2</a>).
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<br><br><b>blast</b>—that is, wrath.
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<br><br><b>storm</b>—<i>a tempest of rain,</i> a winter flood, rushing against and overthrowing the wall of a house.
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<p id="Isa25_5"><b>5.</b> Translate, "As the heat in a dry land (is brought down by the shadow of a cloud, so) thou shalt bring down the tumult (the shout of triumph over their enemies) of strangers (foreigners); and as the heat by the shadow of the cloud (is brought low), so the branch (the offspring) of the terrible ones shall be brought low." PARKHURST translates the <i>Hebrew</i> for "branch," <i>the exulting song.</i> JEROME translates the last clause, "And as when the heat burns under a cloud, thou shalt make the branch of the terrible ones to wither"; the branch withering even under the friendly shade of a cloud typifies the wicked brought to ruin, not for want of natural means of prosperity, but by the immediate act of God.
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<p id="Isa25_6"><b>6. in this mountain</b>—Zion: Messiah's kingdom was to begin, and is to have its central seat hereafter, at Jerusalem, as the common country of "all nations" (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',2,2);">Isa 2:2</a>, etc.).
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<br><br><b>all people</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',56,7);">Isa 56:7</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Dan',7,14);">Dan 7:14</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Luk',2,10);">Luk 2:10</a>).
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<br><br><b>feast</b>—image of felicity (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',22,26,27);">Psa 22:26-27</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Mat',8,11);">Mat 8:11</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Luk',14,15);">Luk 14:15</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rev',19,9);">Rev 19:9</a>; compare <a onclick="return mV('Psa',36,8);">Psa 36:8</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',87,'1-7');">87:1-7</a>).
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<br><br><b>fat things</b>—delicacies; the rich mercies of God in Christ (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',55,2);">Isa 55:2</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',31,14);">Jer 31:14</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Job',36,16);">Job 36:16</a>).
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<br><br><b>wines on the lees</b>—wine which has been long kept on the lees; that is, the oldest and most generous wine (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',48,11);">Jer 48:11</a>).
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<br><br><b>marrow</b>—the choicest dainties (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',63,5);">Psa 63:5</a>).
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<br><br><b>well refined</b>—cleared of all dregs.
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<p id="Isa25_7"><b>7. face of...covering</b>—image from mourning, in which it was usual to <i>cover</i> the face with a veil (<a onclick="return mV('2Sa',15,30);">2Sa 15:30</a>). "Face of covering," that is, the covering itself; as in <a onclick="return mV('Job',41,13);">Job 41:13</a>, "the face of his garment," the garment itself. The covering or veil is the mist of ignorance as to a future state, and the way to eternal life, which enveloped the nations (<a onclick="return mV('Eph',4,18);">Eph 4:18</a>) and the unbelieving Jew (<a onclick="return mV('2Cr',3,15);">2Cr 3:15</a>). The <i>Jew,</i> however, is <i>first</i> to be converted before the conversion of "<i>all nations</i>"; for it is "in <i>this</i> mountain," namely, Zion, that the latter are to have the veil taken off (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',102,13,15,16,21,22);">Psa 102:13, 15-16, 21-22</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rom',11,12);">Rom 11:12</a>).
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<p id="Isa25_8"><b>8.</b> Quoted in <a onclick="return mV('1Cr',15,54);">1Cr 15:54</a>, in support of the resurrection.
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<br><br><b>swallow up...in victory</b>—completely and permanently "abolish" (<a onclick="return mV('2Ti',1,10);">2Ti 1:10</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rev',20,14);">Rev 20:14</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rev',21,4);">21:4</a>; compare <a onclick="return mV('Gen',2,17);">Gen 2:17</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Gen',3,22);">3:22</a>).
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<br><br><b>rebuke</b>—(Compare <a onclick="return mV('Mar',8,38);">Mar 8:38</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Hbr',11,26);">Hbr 11:26</a>).
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<p id="Isa25_9"><b>9. And it shall be said in that day,</b> etc.—"After death has been swallowed up for ever, the people of God, who had been delivered from the hand of death, shall say to the Lord, Lo, this is our <i>God,</i> whom unbelievers regarded as only a <i>man</i>" [JEROME]. "The words are so moulded as to point us specially to the person of the Son of God, who 'saves' us; as He vouchsafed to Israel temporal saving, so to His elect He appears for the purpose of conferring eternal salvation" [VITRINGA]. <i>The Jews,</i> however, have a special share in the words, This is <i>our</i> God (see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Isa/Isa025.html#Isa25_6">Isa 25:6</a>).
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<br><br><b>we have waited</b>—"Waited" is characteristic of God's people in all ages (<a onclick="return mV('Gen',49,18);">Gen 49:18</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Tts',2,13);">Tts 2:13</a>).
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<br><br><b>we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation</b>—compare <a onclick="return mV('Psa',118,24);">Psa 118:24</a>, which refers to the second coming of Jesus (compare <a onclick="return mV('Psa',118,26);">Psa 118:26</a>, with <a onclick="return mV('Luk',13,35);">Luk 13:35</a>).
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<p id="Isa25_10"><b>10. rest</b>—as its <i>permanent protector;</i> on "hand" in this sense; compare <a onclick="return mV('Ezr',7,6,28);">Ezr 7:6, 28</a>.
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<br><br><b>Moab</b>—while Israel is being protected, the foe is destroyed; Moab is the representative of all the foes of God's people.
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<br><br><b>under him</b>—Rather, "in his own place" or "country" (<a onclick="return mV('Exd',10,23);">Exd 10:23</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Exd',16,29);">16:29</a>).
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<br><br><b>for the dunghill</b>—Rather, "in the water of the dung heap," in which straw was trodden to make it manure (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',83,10);">Psa 83:10</a>). HORSLEY translates either, "in the waters of Madmenah," namely, for the making of bricks; or as the <i>Septuagint,</i> "as the <i>threshing-floor</i> is trampled by the <i>corn-drag</i>" (see <i>Margin;</i> <a onclick="return mV('Mic',4,'11-13');">Mic 4:11-13</a>).
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<p id="Isa25_11"><b>11. he</b>—<i>Jehovah</i> shall spread His hands to strike the foe on this side and on that, with as little effort as a Israel's Song of Praise for Restoration swimmer spreads forth his arms to cleave a passage through the water [CALVIN]. (<a onclick="return mV('Zec',5,3);">Zec 5:3</a>). LOWTH takes "he" as Moab, who, in danger of sinking, shall strain every nerve to save himself; <i>but Jehovah</i> (and "he") shall cause him to sink ("bring down the pride" of Moab, <a onclick="return mV('Isa',16,6);">Isa 16:6</a>).
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<br><br><b>with the spoils of...hands</b>—literally, "the craftily acquired spoils" of his (Moab's) hands [BARNES]. Moab's pride, as well as the sudden gripe of his hands (namely, whereby he tries to save himself from drowning) [LOWTH]. "Together with <i>the joints</i> of his hands," that is, though Moab struggle against Jehovah hand and foot [MAURER].
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<p id="Isa25_12"><b>12. fortress</b>—the strongholds of <i>Moab,</i> the representative of the foes of God's people [BARNES]. Babylon [MAURER]. The society of infidels represented as a city (<a onclick="return mV('Rev',11,8);">Rev 11:8</a>).
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