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<p id="Chapter32" align="center">Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET<br>CHAPTER 32
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<p id="Isa32_1"><a onclick="return mV('Isa',32,'1-20');">Isa 32:1-20</a>. MESSIAH'S KINGDOM; DESOLATIONS, TO BE SUCCEEDED BY LASTING PEACE, THE SPIRIT HAVING BEEN POURED OUT.
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<p>The times of purity and happiness which shall follow the defeat of the enemies of Jehovah's people (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',32,'1-8');">Isa 32:1-8</a>). The period of wrath before that happy state (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',32,'9-14');">Isa 32:9-14</a>). The assurance of the final prosperity of the Church is repeated (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',32,'15-20');">Isa 32:15-20</a>).
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<p><b>1. king</b>—not Hezekiah, who was already on the throne, whereas a <i>future</i> time is contemplated. If he be meant at all, it can only be as a type of Messiah the King, to whom alone the language is fully applicable (<a onclick="return mV('Hsa',3,5);">Hsa 3:5</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Zec',9,9);">Zec 9:9</a>; see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Isa/Isa011.html#Isa11_3">Isa 11:3-5</a>). The kingdom shall be transferred from the world kings, who have exercised their power <i>against</i> God, instead of <i>for</i> God, to the rightful King of kings (<a onclick="return mV('Eze',21,27);">Eze 21:27</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Dan',7,13,14);">Dan 7:13-14</a>).
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<br><br><b>princes</b>—subordinate; referring to all in authority under Christ in the coming kingdom on earth, for example, the apostles, etc. (<a onclick="return mV('Luk',22,30);">Luk 22:30</a>; <a onclick="return mV('1Cr',6,2);">1Cr 6:2</a>; <a onclick="return mV('2Ti',2,12);">2Ti 2:12</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rev',2,26,27);">Rev 2:26-27</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rev',3,21);">3:21</a>).
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<p id="Isa32_2"><b>2. a man</b>—rather, <i>the man</i> Christ [LOWTH]; it is as "the Son of man" He is to reign, as it was as Son of man He suffered (<a onclick="return mV('Mat',26,64);">Mat 26:64</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jhn',5,27);">Jhn 5:27</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jhn',19,5);">19:5</a>). Not as MAURER explains, "<i>every</i> one of the princes shall be," etc.
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<br><br><b>rivers</b>—as refreshing as water and the cool shade are to the heated traveller (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',35,6,7);">Isa 35:6-7</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',41,18);">41:18</a>).
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<p id="Isa32_3"><b>3. them that see</b>—the seers or prophets.
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<br><br><b>them that hear</b>—the people under instruction (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',35,5,6);">Isa 35:5-6</a>).
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<p id="Isa32_4"><b>4. rash</b>—rather, "the hasty"; contrast "shall not make haste" (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',28,16);">Isa 28:16</a>); the reckless who will not take time to weigh religious truth aright. Or else, the well-instructed [HORSLEY].
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<br><br><b>stammers</b>—those who speak confusedly on divine things (compare <a onclick="return mV('Exd',4,'10-12');">Exd 4:10-12</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',1,6);">Jer 1:6</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Mat',10,19,20);">Mat 10:19-20</a>). Or, rather, those drunken <i>scorners</i> who in stammering style imitated Isaiah's warnings to mock them [MAURER] (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',28,'7-11', 13,14,22);">Isa 28:7-11, 13-14, 22</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',29,20);">29:20</a>); in this view, translate, "speak <i>uprightly</i>" (agreeably to the divine law); not as <i>English Version,</i> referring to the distinctness of articulation, "plainly."
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<p id="Isa32_5"><b>5. vile</b>—rather, "fool" [LOWTH]; that is, ungodly (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',14,1);">Psa 14:1</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',74,18);">74:18</a>).
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<br><br><b>liberal</b>—rather, "noble-minded."
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<br><br><b>churl</b>—rather, "fraudulent" [GESENIUS].
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<br><br><b>bountiful</b>—religiously. The atheistic churl, who envies the believer his hope "full of immortality," shall no longer be held as a patriot struggling for the emancipation of mankind from superstition [HORSLEY].
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<p id="Isa32_6"><b>6. vile...villainy</b>—rather, "the (irreligious) fool ...(his) folly."
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<br><br><b>will speak</b>—rather, "present"; for (so far is the "fool" from deserving the epithet "noble-minded") the fool "speaketh" folly and "worketh," etc.
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<br><br><b>hypocrisy</b>—rather, "profligacy" [HORSLEY].
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<br><br><b>error</b>—impiety, perverse arguments.
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<br><br><b>hungry</b>—spiritually (<a onclick="return mV('Mat',5,6);">Mat 5:6</a>).
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<p id="Isa32_7"><b>7. churl</b>—"the fraudulent"; this verse refers to the last clause of <a onclick="return mV('Isa',32,5);">Isa 32:5</a>; as <a onclick="return mV('Isa',32,6);">Isa 32:6</a> referred to its first clause.
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<br><br><b>speaketh right</b>—pleadeth a just cause (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',29,21);">Isa 29:21</a>); spiritually, "the poor man's cause" is the divine doctrine, his rule of faith and practice.
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<p id="Isa32_8"><b>8. liberal</b>—rather, "noble-minded."
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<br><br><b>stand</b>—shall be approved under the government of the righteous King.
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<p id="Isa32_9"><b>9-20.</b> Address to the women of Jerusalem who troubled themselves little about the political signs of the times, but lived a life of self-indulgence (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',3,'16-23');">Isa 3:16-23</a>); the failure of food through the devastations of the enemy is here foretold, being what was most likely to affect them as mothers of families, heretofore accustomed to every luxury. VITRINGA understands "women—daughters" as the cities and villages of Judea (<a onclick="return mV('Eze',16,'1-63');">Eze 16:1-63</a>). See <a onclick="return mV('Amo',6,1);">Amo 6:1</a>.
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<p id="Isa32_10"><b>10. Many days and years</b>—rather, "In little more than a year" [MAURER]; literally, "days upon a year" (so <a onclick="return mV('Isa',29,1);">Isa 29:1</a>).
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<br><br><b>vintage shall fail</b>—through the arrival of the Assyrian invader. As the wheat harvest is omitted, Isaiah must look for the invasion in the summer or autumn of 714 B.C., when the wheat would have been secured already, and the later fruit "gathering," and vintage would be still in danger.
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<p id="Isa32_11"><b>11. strip you</b>—of your gay clothing. (See <a onclick="return mV('Isa',2,19, 21);">Isa 2:19, 21</a>).
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<p id="Isa32_12"><b>12. lament for...teats</b>—rather, shall smite on their breasts in lamentation "for thy pleasant fields" (<a onclick="return mV('Nah',2,7);">Nah 2:7</a>) [MAURER]. "Teats" in <i>English Version</i> is used for fertile lands, which, like <i>breasts,</i> nourish life. The transition from "ye" to "they" (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',32,11,12);">Isa 32:11-12</a>) is frequent.
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<p id="Isa32_13"><b>13.</b> (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',5,6);">Isa 5:6</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',7,23);">7:23</a>).
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<br><br><b>houses of joy</b>—pleasure-houses outside of Jerusalem, not Jerusalem itself, but other cities destroyed by Sennacherib in his march (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',7,'20-25');">Isa 7:20-25</a>). However, the prophecy, in its full accomplishment, refers to the <i>utter</i> desolation of Judea and its <i>capital</i> by Rome, and subsequently, previous to the second coming of the King (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',118,26);">Psa 118:26</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Luk',13,35);">Luk 13:35</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Luk',19,38);">19:38</a>); "the joyous city" is in this view, Jerusalem (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',22,2);">Isa 22:2</a>).
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<p id="Isa32_14"><b>14. palaces</b>—most applicable to Jerusalem (see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Isa/Isa032.html#Isa32_13">Isa 32:13</a>).
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<br><br><b>multitude...left</b>—the noisy din of the city, that is, the city with its noisy multitude shall lie forsaken [MAURER].
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<br><br><b>forts</b>—rather, "Ophel" (that is the mound), the term applied specially to the declivity on the east of Zion, surrounded with its own wall (<a onclick="return mV('2Ch',27,3);">2Ch 27:3</a>; <a onclick="return mV('2Ch',33,14);">33:14</a>; <a onclick="return mV('2Ki',5,24);">2Ki 5:24</a>), and furnished with "towers" (or watchtowers), perhaps referred to here (<a onclick="return mV('Neh',3,26,27);">Neh 3:26-27</a>).
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<br><br><b>for ever</b>—limited by thee, "until," etc., <a onclick="return mV('Isa',32,15);">Isa 32:15</a>, <i>for a long time.</i>
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<p id="Isa32_15"><b>15.</b> This can only partially apply to the spiritual revival in Hezekiah's time; its full accomplishment belongs to the Christian dispensation, first at Pentecost (<a onclick="return mV('Joe',2,28);">Joe 2:28</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Act',2,17);">Act 2:17</a>), perfectly in coming times (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',104,30);">Psa 104:30</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Eze',36,26);">Eze 36:26</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Eze',39,29);">39:29</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Zec',12,10);">Zec 12:10</a>), when the Spirit shall be poured on Israel, and through it on the Gentiles (<a onclick="return mV('Mic',5,7);">Mic 5:7</a>).
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<br><br><b>wilderness...fruitful field...forest</b>—when Judea, so long waste, shall be populous and fruitful, and the land of the enemies of God shall be desolate. Or, "the field, now fruitful, shall be but as a barren forest in comparison with what it shall be then" (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',29,17);">Isa 29:17</a>). The barren shall become fruitful by regeneration; those already regenerate shall bring forth fruits in such abundance that their former life shall seem but as a wilderness where no fruits were.
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<p id="Isa32_16"><b>16. judgment</b>—justice.
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<br><br><b>wilderness</b>—then reclaimed.
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<br><br><b>fruitful field</b>—then become more fruitful (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',32,15);">Isa 32:15</a>); thus "wilderness" and "fruitful field" include the <i>whole</i> land of Judea.
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<p id="Isa32_17"><b>17. work</b>—the effect (<a onclick="return mV('Pro',14,34);">Pro 14:34</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jam',3,18);">Jam 3:18</a>).
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<br><br><b>peace</b>—internal and external.
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<p id="Isa32_18"><b>18. sure...quiet</b>—free from fear of invasion.
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<p id="Isa32_19"><b>19.</b> Literally, "But it shall hail with coming down of the forest, and in lowness shall the city (Nineveh) be brought low; that is, humbled." The "hail" is Jehovah's wrathful visitation (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',30,30);">Isa 30:30</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',28,2,17);">28:2, 17</a>). The "forest" is the Assyrian host, dense as the trees of a forest (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',10,18,19,33,34);">Isa 10:18-19, 33-34</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Zec',11,2);">Zec 11:2</a>).
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<p id="Isa32_20"><b>20.</b> While the enemy shall be brought "low," the Jews shall cultivate their land in undisturbed prosperity.
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<br><br><b>all waters</b>—well-watered places (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',30,25);">Isa 30:25</a>). The <i>Hebrew</i> translation, "beside," ought rather to be translated, "upon" (<a onclick="return mV('Ecc',11,1);">Ecc 11:1</a>), where the meaning is, "Cast thy seed upon the waters when the river overflows its banks; the seed will sink into the mud and will spring up when the waters subside, and you will find it after many days in a rich harvest." Before sowing, they send oxen, etc., into the water to tread the ground for sowing. CASTALIO thinks there is an allusion to the Mosaic precept, not to plough with an ox and ass together, mystically implying that the Jew was to have no intercourse with Gentiles; the Gospel abolishes this distinction (<a onclick="return mV('Col',3,11);">Col 3:11</a>); thus the sense here is, Blessed are ye that sow the gospel seed without distinction of race in the teachers or the taught. But there is no need of supposing that the ox and ass here are <i>yoked together;</i> they are probably "sent forth" separately, as in <a onclick="return mV('Isa',30,24);">Isa 30:24</a>.
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