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<p id="Chapter2" align="center">Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET<br>CHAPTER 2
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<p id="Isa2_1"><a onclick="return mV('Isa',2,'1-22');">Isa 2:1-22</a>.
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<p><b>1.</b> The inscription.
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<br><br><b>The word</b>—the revelation.
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<p id="Isa2_2"><b>2.</b> Same as <a onclick="return mV('Mic',4,1);">Mic 4:1</a>. As Micah prophesied in Jotham's reign, and Isaiah in Uzziah's, Micah rests on Isaiah, whom he confirms: not vice versa. HENGSTENBERG on slight grounds makes <a onclick="return mV('Mic',4,1);">Mic 4:1</a> the original.
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<br><br><b>last days</b>—that is, Messiah's: especially the days yet to come, to which all prophecy hastens, when "the house of the God <i>of Jacob,</i>" namely, at Jerusalem, shall be the center to which the converted nations shall flock together (<a onclick="return mV('Mat',13,32);">Mat 13:32</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Luk',2,31,32);">Luk 2:31-32</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Act',1,6,7);">Act 1:6-7</a>); where "the kingdom" of Israel is regarded as certain and the <i>time</i> alone uncertain (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',68,15,16);">Psa 68:15-16</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',72,8,11);">72:8, 11</a>).
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<br><br><b>mountain of the Lord's house...in the top,</b> etc.—the temple on Mount Moriah: type of the Gospel, beginning at Jerusalem, and, like an object set on the highest hill, made so conspicuous that all nations are attracted to it.
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<br><br><b>flow</b>—as a broad stream (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',66,12);">Isa 66:12</a>).
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<p id="Isa2_3"><b>3.</b> If the curse foretold against Israel has been literally fulfilled, so shall the promised blessing be literal. We Gentiles must not, while giving them the curse, deny them their peculiar blessing by spiritualizing it. The Holy Ghost shall be poured out for <i>a general</i> conversion then (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',50,5);">Jer 50:5</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Zec',8,21,23);">Zec 8:21, 23</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Joe',2,28);">Joe 2:28</a>).
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<br><br><b>from Jerusalem</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Luk',24,47);">Luk 24:47</a>) an earnest of the future relations of Jerusalem to Christendom (<a onclick="return mV('Rom',11,12,15);">Rom 11:12, 15</a>).
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<p id="Isa2_4"><b>4. judge</b>—as a sovereign umpire, settling all controversies (compare <a onclick="return mV('Isa',11,4);">Isa 11:4</a>). LOWTH translates "work," "conviction."
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<br><br><b>plowshares</b>—in the East resembling a short sword (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',9,6,7);">Isa 9:6-7</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Zec',9,10);">Zec 9:10</a>).
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<p id="Isa2_5"><b>5.</b> The connection is: As Israel's high destiny is to be a blessing to all nations (<a onclick="return mV('Gen',12,3);">Gen 12:3</a>), let Israel's children walk worthy of it (<a onclick="return mV('Eph',5,8);">Eph 5:8</a>).
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<p id="Isa2_6"><b>6. Therefore</b>—rather, "For": reasons why there is the more need of the exhortation in <a onclick="return mV('Isa',2,5);">Isa 2:5</a>.
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<br><br><b>thou</b>—transition to Jehovah: such rapid transitions are natural, when the mind is full of a subject.
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<br><br><b>replenished</b>—rather, filled, namely, with the superstitions of the East, Syria, and Chaldea.
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<br><br><b>soothsayers</b>—forbidden (<a onclick="return mV('Deu',18,'10-14');">Deu 18:10-14</a>).
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<br><br><b>Philistines</b>—southwest of Palestine: antithesis to "the east."
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<br><br><b>please themselves</b>—rather, join hands with, that is, enter into alliances, matrimonial and national: forbidden (<a onclick="return mV('Exd',23,32);">Exd 23:32</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Neh',13,23);">Neh 13:23</a>, etc.).
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<p id="Isa2_7"><b>7. gold</b>—forbidden to be heaped together (<a onclick="return mV('Deu',17,17);">Deu 17:17</a>). Solomon disobeyed (<a onclick="return mV('1Ki',10,21,27);">1Ki 10:21, 27</a>).
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<br><br><b>horses...chariots</b>—forbidden (<a onclick="return mV('Deu',17,16);">Deu 17:16</a>). But Solomon disobeyed (<a onclick="return mV('1Ki',20,26);">1Ki 20:26</a>). Horses could be used effectively for war in the plains of Egypt; not so in the hilly Judea. God designed there should be as wide as possible a distinction between Israel and the Egyptians. He would have His people wholly dependent on Him, rather than on the ordinary means of warfare (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',20,7);">Psa 20:7</a>). Also horses were connected with idolatry (<a onclick="return mV('2Ki',23,11);">2Ki 23:11</a>); hence His objection: so the transition to "idols" (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',2,8);">Isa 2:8</a>) is natural.
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<p id="Isa2_8"><b>8.</b> (<a onclick="return mV('Hsa',8,4);">Hsa 8:4</a>). Not so much public idolatry, which was not sanctioned in Uzziah's and Jotham's reign, but (see <a onclick="return mV('2Ki',15,4,35);">2Ki 15:4, 35</a>) as <i>private.</i>
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<p id="Isa2_9"><b>9. mean</b>—in rank: not morally base: opposed to "the great man." The former is in <i>Hebrew, Adam,</i> the latter, <i>ish.</i>
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<br><br><b>boweth</b>—namely, to idols. <i>All</i> ranks were idolaters.
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<br><br><b>forgive...not</b>—a threat expressed by an imperative. Isaiah so identifies himself with God's will, that he prays for that which he knows God purposes. So <a onclick="return mV('Rev',18,6);">Rev 18:6</a>.
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<p id="Isa2_10"><b>10.</b> Poetical form of expressing that, such were their sins, they would be obliged by God's judgments to seek a hiding-place from His wrath (<a onclick="return mV('Rev',6,15,16);">Rev 6:15-16</a>).
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<br><br><b>dust</b>—equivalent to "caves of the earth," or dust (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',2,19);">Isa 2:19</a>).
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<br><br><b>for fear,</b> etc.—literally, "from the face of the terror of the Lord."
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<p id="Isa2_11"><b>11. lofty looks</b>—literally, "eyes of pride" (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',18,27);">Psa 18:27</a>).
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<br><br><b>humbled</b>—by calamities. God will so vindicate His honor "in that day" of judgments, that none else "shall be exalted" (<a onclick="return mV('Zec',14,9);">Zec 14:9</a>).
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<p id="Isa2_12"><b>12.</b> Man has had many days: "the day of the Lord" shall come at last, beginning with judgment, a never-ending day in which God shall be "all in all" (<a onclick="return mV('1Cr',15,28);">1Cr 15:28</a>; <a onclick="return mV('2Pe',3,10);">2Pe 3:10</a>).
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<br><br><b>every</b>—not merely <i>person,</i> as <i>English Version</i> explains it, but every <i>thing</i> on which the nation prided itself.
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<p id="Isa2_13"><b>13. cedars...oaks</b>—image for haughty nobles and princes (<a onclick="return mV('Amo',2,9);">Amo 2:9</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Zec',11,1,2);">Zec 11:1-2</a>; compare <a onclick="return mV('Rev',19,'18-21');">Rev 19:18-21</a>).
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<br><br><b>Bashan</b>—east of Jordan, north of the river Jabbok, famous for fine oaks, pasture, and cattle. Perhaps in "oaks" there is reference to their idolatry (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',1,29);">Isa 1:29</a>).
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<p id="Isa2_14"><b>14. high...hills</b>—referring to the "high places" on which sacrifices were unlawfully offered, even in Uzziah's (equivalent to Azariah) reign (<a onclick="return mV('2Ki',15,4);">2Ki 15:4</a>). Also, <i>places</i> of strength, fastnesses in which they trusted, rather than in God; so
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<p id="Isa2_15"><b>15. tower...wall</b>—<i>Towers</i> were often made on the walls of cities.
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<br><br><b>fenced</b>—strongly fortified.
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<p id="Isa2_16"><b>16. Tarshish</b>—<i>Tartessus</i> in southwest Spain, at the mouth of the Guadalquivir, near Gibraltar. It includes the adjoining region: a Phoenician colony; hence its connection with Palestine and the Bible (<a onclick="return mV('2Ch',9,21);">2Ch 9:21</a>). The name was also used in a wide sense for <i>the farthest west,</i> as our West Indies (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',66,19);">Isa 66:19</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',48,7);">Psa 48:7</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',72,10);">72:10</a>). "Ships of Tarshish" became a phrase for <i>richly laden</i> and <i>far-voyaging</i> vessels. The judgment shall be on all that minister to man's luxury (compare <a onclick="return mV('Rev',18,'17-19');">Rev 18:17-19</a>).
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<br><br><b>pictures</b>—ordered to be destroyed (<a onclick="return mV('Num',33,52);">Num 33:52</a>). Still to be seen on the walls of Nineveh's palaces. It is remarkable that whereas all other ancient civilized nations, Egypt, Assyria, Greece, Rome, have left monuments in the fine arts, Judea, while rising immeasurably above them in the possession of "the living oracles," has left none of the former. The fine arts, as in modern Rome, were so often associated with polytheism, that God required His people in this, as in other respects, to be separate from the nations (<a onclick="return mV('Deu',4,'15-18');">Deu 4:15-18</a>). But <i>Vulgate</i> translation is perhaps better, "All that is beautiful to the sight"; not only paintings, but all luxurious—ornaments. One comprehensive word for all that goes before (compare <a onclick="return mV('Rev',18,12,14,16);">Rev 18:12, 14, 16</a>).
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<p id="Isa2_17"><b>17.</b> Repeated from <a onclick="return mV('Isa',2,11);">Isa 2:11</a>, for emphatic confirmation.
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<p id="Isa2_18"><b>18. idols</b>—literally, "vain things," "nothings" (<a onclick="return mV('1Cr',8,4);">1Cr 8:4</a>). Fulfilled to the letter. <i>Before</i> the Babylonian captivity the Jews were most prone to idolatry; in no instance, <i>ever since.</i> For the future fulfilment, see <a onclick="return mV('Zec',13,2);">Zec 13:2</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rev',13,15);">Rev 13:15</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rev',13,15);">19:20</a>; .
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<p id="Isa2_19"><b>19.</b> The fulfilment answers exactly to the threat (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',2,10);">Isa 2:10</a>).
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<br><br><b>they</b>—the idol-worshippers.
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<br><br><b>caves</b>—abounding in Judea, a hilly country; hiding-places in times of alarm (<a onclick="return mV('1Sa',13,6);">1Sa 13:6</a>).
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<br><br><b>shake...earth</b>—and the heavens also (<a onclick="return mV('Hbr',12,26);">Hbr 12:26</a>). Figure for severe and universal judgments.
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<p id="Isa2_20"><b>20. moles</b>—Others translate "mice." The sense is, <i>under ground,</i> in darkness.
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<br><br><b>bats</b>—unclean birds (<a onclick="return mV('Lev',11,19);">Lev 11:19</a>), living amidst tenantless ruins (<a onclick="return mV('Rev',11,13);">Rev 11:13</a>).
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<p id="Isa2_21"></a>
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<p id="Isa2_22"><b>22.</b> The high ones (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',2,11,13);">Isa 2:11, 13</a>) on whom the people trust, shall be "brought low" (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',3,2);">Isa 3:2</a>); therefore "cease from" depending on them, instead of on the Lord (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',146,'3-5');">Psa 146:3-5</a>).
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