isaiah 66:19 commentary

— These converted ones of Israel are of those on whom the fiery judgments of Jehovah were not to fall, as upon the apostate Jews. And this is the true meaning of the Prophet; just as he had said, in other passages, that he would rescue “a remnant” from the general conflagration. This was eminently made good upon the apostles leaving the Jews, and turning to the Gentiles, Acts 13:46, and more fully after the destruction of Jerusalem, when the believers among the Jews, as well as the apostles, went about publishing the gospel to all people, which was the declaring of the Lord’s glory. Lud, joined with “Pul” here, in Ezekiel 27:10 with Phut, and with Ethiopia and Libya in Ezekiel 37:5, stands, in the judgment of most scholars, not for the Lydians of Asia Minor, but for an African nation, the Ludim of Genesis 10:13 and Jeremiah 46:9, where they are named, as here, as famous for their skill as archers. prediction; that is, of events as occurring quite in his own times, or somewhat later, but which, in point of fact, extend into the far future. From the connection it is plain that an African people near Egypt is meant (cf. The Septuagint 'Lud.' ; the Gospel, which is a good and true report of Christ; this the nations, covered with gross darkness, the Pagan ones, have not so much as heard of, but now shall, through these men being sent unto them: neither have seen my glory; in the glass of the Gospel, that having never been set before them; and so have never seen the glory of Christ, as the only begotten of the Father; his comeliness and beauty, the fulness of grace in him, nor any of the excellencies of him, either of his person or offices: and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles; this, those that are escaped, or the preachers sent to the nations, shall do; they shall declare publicly, plainly, and clearly, that Christ is the brightness of the divine Glory; shall declare the glory of his deity; of his rich grace and love to sinners, in suffering and dying for them; of his salvation, how great, complete, suitable, and glorious it is; with all the glorious truths of the Gospel, peace, pardon, righteousness, and eternal life, by Christ. Isa 2:2, 3; Mic 5:7; and Zec 14:16-19 represent it, not that the Jews go as missionaries to the Gentiles, but that the Gentiles come up to Jerusalem to learn the Lord's ways there. THE CONTEXT This is the last chapter of the book of Isaiah—dated between 538 and 520 B.C.—the period immediately following the return of the exiles to Jerusalem (Muilenburg, 760). But while the distinction is common to the two prophets, the development of the idea is strikingly different. (J. R. Vernon, M. To the isles afar off - (See the notes at Isaiah 41:1). Sir Emerson Tennent thinks it was Point de Galle in Ceylon, the emporium of those seas for three centuries past. Isaiah 66. ; Bochart) who were expert archers." Isaiah 66 is the sixty-sixth and final chapter of the Book of Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. Suppose you knew of an infallible remedy. These African Lybians are commonly mentioned in connection with Pul, Ethiopia, and Phut. Josephus says, that ‹Tubal obtained the Thobelians ( Θωβήλους Thōbēlous ) who are reckoned among the Iberians.‘ Jerome renders it, ‹Italy.‘ It is not possible to determine with certainty the country that is referred to, though some part of Europe is doubtless intended. God is not frustrated with Israel's unwillingness to do His will. The point is that this message will go to the farthest reaches of the earth (cf. Ver. Gary V. Smith’s second volume on Isaiah in the New American Commentary looks deeply and in wonder at the God who is both intimate and compassionate (Isaiah 40:28: “He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak”) and larger than our comprehension of time and space (Isaiah 66:1: “Heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool”). The great mass of the nation would be abandoned and devoted to destruction. But there is no authority for supposing, as he does, that the word 'bow' has been interpolated. They will proclaim my glory among the nations. I will set a sign — Not an “ensign,” (chap. Isaiah 2:2, Isaiah 2:3; Micah 5:7; and Zechariah 14:16-19 represent it, not that the Jews go as missionaries to the Gentiles, but that the Gentiles come up to Jerusalem to learn the Lord‘s ways there. In the place of rebellion and strife, God does a new thing -- a "new heavens and a new earth," which is the theme of the remaining portions of Isaiah's prophecy (65:17; 66:22). The chapter alternates between judgment and redemption. The sign was ‹among them,‘ that is, in the very midst of the nation; and the object of the intimation was, to secure their safety, and the speedy propagation of the true religion among all nations. Then the Lord would send survivors of His people among the nations to proclaim His glory. And they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles; and they shall every where preach the gospel, and set up my gospel ordinances and institutions. Isaiah 66:19 Context. Isaiah 66:19 Context 17 They that sanctifie themselues, and purifie themselues in the gardens, behinde one tree in the midst, eating swines flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the Lord. Isaiah 66:19 And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles. Which have not heard my name. Others think that it denotes Africa and Cappadocia; but I rather adopt the former view. We can provoke others to pray. It is clear that some part of Egypt is intended, says Calmer, but it is not easy to show exactly where they dwelt. 26, supposes that it means Philae, a large island in the Nile, between Egypt and Ethiopia; called by the Egyptians Pilak, i e., the border, or far country (see Champollion, l'Egypte, i. Isaiah provides a description of this new Jerusalem, much of which is echoed in Revelation 21 and 22. Explanation and Commentary of Isaiah 43:19 The Israelites had wearied God with their sin and disobedience, but God is faithful and promises once again to care for them and provide for them. ... Have been — They were not only made by God, but kept in being by him. I.A.1.A. Clarke's Isaiah 66:19 Bible Commentary That draw the bow - I much suspect that the words משכי קשת moshechey kesheth, who draw the bow, are a corruption of the word משך meshek, Moschi, the name of a nation situated between the Euxine and Caspian seas; and properly joined with תבל tubal, the Tibareni. Lud - the Ludian of Africa: a Mizraite tribe west of Egypt ( Genesis 10:13 ; 1 Chronicles 1:11); Ludim being son of Mizraim (Egypt): an Ethiopian people famous as bowmen ( Jeremiah 46:9 ); employed as mercenaries by Tyre and Egypt (Ezekiel 27:10; Ezekiel 30:5). The whole passage is so accurately descriptive of what occurred in the times when the gospel was first preached to the pagan world, that there can be little danger of error in referring it to those times. Isaiah 3:12. A Preterist Commentary on Isaiah 66:19: The Disciples that Survived the Persecution in Jerusalem went all over the World to Proclaim the Gospel in Fulfillment of v. 19. Of that remnant, God would send a portion to make his name known to those who had not heard it, and they would lead distant nations to the knowledge of his truth. What that sign should be, he does not here say. God promised to set a sign among His people (cf. This is the theme of Isaiah 40-66. I will set a sign among them and will send survivors from them to the nations: Tarshish, Put, Lud, Meshech, Tubal and Javan, to the distant coastlands that have neither heard My fame nor seen My glory. Indeed, only deputy-representatives of the many Gentile nations could in person attend at Jerusalem. The Book of Isaiah consists of three sections, probably written originally as separate books, written over a long period of time by three different authors. (Parkhurst, p. Some also, the doctrine of the gospel, and especially the sacraments. They shall — This was eminently made good after the destruction of Jerusalem, when the believers among the Jews, as well as the apostles went about publishing the gospel to all people, which was declaring the Lord's glory. Where will my resting place be? The heavy judgments referred to may have been the impending calamities over Jerusalem. Pul - This is supposed to denote some region in Africa. Afar off — To all the quarters of the world. Ionia properly was the beautiful province on the western part of Asia Minor - a country much celebrated in the Greek classics for its fertility and the salubrity of its climate - but the word used here includes all of Greece. And they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles; The achievements just named, no doubt, are the conversion of so large, ,) a rallying flag around which Gentiles are bidden to throng. The gathering of the nations Isaiah 66:18 may possibly refer to the collecting together of numerous people from all parts of the earth about that time; that is, either the assembled people at the time of the Saviour‘s death Acts 2:8, Acts 2:11, or the gathering of the armies of the Romans - a commingled multitude from all nations - to inflict punishment on the Jewish nation, and to behold the manifestation of the divine justice in the destruction of the guilty Jewish capital. And this is the true meaning of the Prophet; just as he had said, in other passages, that he would rescue “a remnant” from the general conflagration. His standpoint here resembles that of the apostle in Romans 11:25, who describes the conversion of the heathen world and the rescue of all Israel as facts belonging to the future; although at the time when he wrote this, the evangelization of the heathen foretold by our prophet in Isaiah 42:1. was already progressing most rapidly. WHAT CAN WE DO? (On this word, with which the name of the Bastarnians as ̔Αμαξόβιοι is connected, see Hahnel's Bedeutung der Bastarner fr das german. General Introduction To The Book. All shall be welcome; and nothing shall be … The only "sign" that our Lord ever gave to the unbelieving Jews was "The sign of the prophet Jonah, that like as Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights, so shall the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights" (Matthew 12:39-40), in short, the Resurrection of Christ! This distinctionbetween the nearer nations who have experienced something of the greatness of Jehovah through contact with His people Israel, and the remoter nations who have not heard His name, orginates with the prophet Ezekiel (Ezekiel 38:1). The word “nations” is emphatic; for at that time the Lord was known to not more than one people, but now he has revealed himself to all. Tubal — Tibarenians, in Asia Minor, south of the Caucasus, between the Black Sea and Araxes. It is on all hands agreed that this verse is a prophecy of the conversion of the Gentiles. Jerome observes on this, quae nos dormitoria interpretari possumus vel basternas. The word know not being in the Hebrew, some apply the ellipsis thus: I have observed their works, &c. Others consider the clause as a question, and read, Should I endure their works, &c.? Josephus affirms that the descendants of Ludim are long since extinct, having been destroyed in the Ethiopian wars. (x) I will scatter the rest of the Jews, who escaped destruction, into various nations. The prophet, in these verses, writes of events in the manner of. There are still on that island remains of some very noble and extensive temples built by the ancient Egyptians. Escape of them — These converted ones of Israel are of those on whom the fiery judgments of Jehovah were not to fall, as upon the apostate Jews. Either a miraculous sign, something wonderful, as the word is often used, Exodus 4:8, not the effusion of the Spirit on the day of Pentecost, in the presence of men of all nations; or the miracles wrought in the Gentile world by the apostles, in confirmation of the Gospel; but rather the wonderful conversion of the Jews, Isaiah 66:8, or those wonders, the time of the end of which is inquired, Daniel 12:6 or else some distinguishing sign or mark is meant; such an one as was set on Cain, and on those that sighed and mourned for the sins of Jerusalem, Ezekiel 9:4, and may intend the seal or mark of Christ's Father's name, in the foreheads of his people, to distinguish and preserve them from being hurt with others, Revelation 7:3, or, best of all, a sign or ensign to gather persons together; which, though not the usual word for an ensign, is sometimes so used, as in Psalm 74:4, and so may intend Christ, who is a sign that has been spoken against, Luke 2:34 and is set up in the ministration of the Gospel, to gather souls unto him, Isaiah 10:10, and which, as it was attended with great success in the first times of the Gospel, will also in the latter day, Isaiah 2:2. and I will send those that escape of them; meaning, not the apostles and first preachers of the word, that escaped the perverseness and frowardness of the Jewish nation, their rage and persecution, and the wrath that came upon them to the uttermost; but those that shall escape at the defeat of the Turks, and at the ruin of mystical Babylon, and at the fall of the tenth part of the city, Revelation 11:13 and who also, in a spiritual sense, will escape the pollutions of the world, through the grace of God, and knowledge of Christ; the vengeance of divine justice; the curses of the law, and wrath to come; hell and eternal damnation, by fleeing to Christ; these, some of them, will be made preachers of the Gospel; as who so fit as those to warn sinners of their danger, to show men the way of salvation, and publish the good tidings of the Gospel, and will be sent of God with a commission from him "unto the nations"; in order to gather them to Christ and his church, and behold his glory: particularly to "Tarshish", a word sometimes used for the sea; and the Vulgate Latin version renders it "the nations in the sea"; or, as the Targum, the province of the sea, the maritime provinces, those that lie nearest the sea; the Persian and Arabian seas; or Tartessus in Spain; and may be put for the whole country: Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow; which some take to be the same with Put and Lud, or Lybia and Lydia, which go together, Jeremiah 46:9 both countries in Africa, famous for archery; and the Vulgate Latin version renders it Africa and Lydia; though Bochart, and after him Vitringa, take Pul to be the same with Philas, an island upon the Nile, above Syene, between Ethiopia and Egypt, of which Diodorus SiculusF13Bibliothec I. "in a pure vessel to the house of Jehovah," not in the house of Jehovah, for the point of comparison is not the presentation in the temple, but the bringing to the temple. The great mass of the nation would be abandoned and devoted to destruction. Look — Yet God will look with a favourable eye to him that hath a broken and contrite spirit, whose heart is subdued to the will of God, and who is poor, and low in his own eyes. Ezekiel 27:13; Ezekiel 38:2-3; Ezekiel 39:1) points to the shores of the Black Sea and tribes of Scythian extraction. Deeply sensible that there is great danger of erring here, and that the above view may be viewed as mere conjecture, I cannot, however, help regarding it as the true exposition. They reach, evidently, the apostolic age, and no doubt they qualifiedly cover ages beyond, during which missionary work shall be in demand for the conversion of the entire world — the scope of time required by St. Paul in Romans 10, 11. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible. 18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come that I will gather all nations and tongues, and they shall come and see my glorie. And I will send those that escape of them - According to the interpretation suggested above, this refers to the portion of the Jewish nation that should escape from the tokens of the divine displeasure; that is, to the apostles and the early disciples of the Redeemer. Lowth supposes that the Hebrew phrase is a corruption of the word Moschi, the name of a nation situated between the Euxine and the Caspian seas. (St. Jerome) (Worthington). 1. p. 23. What a monster you would be! If there is error in it, it may be pardoned, for it will probably be felt by most readers of these notes that there has not been a too frequent reference in the interpretation proposed to the times of the Christian dispensation. But it seems to me that the whole passage may have been intended, by the Holy Spirit, to refer to the propagation of the gospel by the apostles. II. 17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD. That have not heard my fame - Hebrew, ‹Who have not heard my report,‘ that is, who were ignorant of the true God. , (in Greece; and Ionian isles and maritime coasts, etc.) But there is no authority for supposing, as he does, that the word ‹bow‘ has been interpolated. ; St. Jerome; Worthington) or the gospel, with the power of working miracles. A Vision. (Prof. G. A. Smith, D. D.), Coastlands (Isaiah 40:15). And they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles - ( Malachi 1:11.). Of these the prophet names Tarshish, either definitely for Spain, or vaguely for the far west. The names of the places which follow are designed to specify the principal places where the message would be sent, and stand here as representatives of the whole pagan world. It is by no means easy to determine with certainty on this passage; and it certainly becomes no one to speak dogmatically or very confidently. (e) Meaning, the apostles, disciples and others who he first chose of the Jews to preach to the Gentiles. To Tarshish - (See the notes at Isaiah 2:16; Isaiah 23:1; Isaiah 60:19). That have not heard my fame - Hebrew, 'Who have not heard my report,' that is, who were ignorant of the true God. And they will declare My glory among the nations. On the other hand, Mr. Sayce (Cheyne, 2:287) identifies “Pul” with the Apuli of Italy and “Lud,” with the Lydian soldiers, by whose help Psammitichus made himself independent of Assyria. Kimchi interprets those that draw the bow of the Turks: to Tubal and Javan; which the same version renders Italy and Greece: and the isles afar off; even as far as the West Indies: what places and countries are exactly and precisely meant cannot be determined; only, in general, that into various parts of the world, east, west, north, and south, even the most distant, the Gospel and Gospel ministers shall be sent: even to those that have not heard my fame; or, "my report" (o); the Gospel, which is a good and true report of Christ; this the nations, covered with gross darkness, the Pagan ones, have not so much as heard of, but now shall, through these men being sent unto them: neither have seen my glory; in the glass of the Gospel, that having never been set before them; and so have never seen the glory of Christ, as the only begotten of the Father; his comeliness and beauty, the fulness of grace in him, nor any of the excellencies of him, either of his person or offices: and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles; this, those that are escaped, or the preachers sent to the nations, shall do; they shall declare publicly, plainly, and clearly, that Christ is the brightness of the divine Glory; shall declare the glory of his deity; of his rich grace and love to sinners, in suffering and dying for them; of his salvation, how great, complete, suitable, and glorious it is; with all the glorious truths of the Gospel, peace, pardon, righteousness, and eternal life, by Christ. 16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many. those that escape of them — the Gentile survivors spared by God (see on Isaiah 66:18; Zechariah 14:16). Judgment and Salvation - “I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me; I was found by those who did not seek me. They will proclaim my glory among the natio 4.) I will set a sign: by sign here some understand an ensign, as the word signifies, Psalms 74:4, which is a military sign to gather people together; by this may be understood Christ, Luke 2:34. By the name “Tarshish” he denotes Cilicia, and includes the whole coast of the Mediterranean Sea opposite to Judea. The prophet presupposes that his countrymen are dispersed among all nations to the farthest extremity of the geographical horizon. These African Lybians are commonly mentioned in connection with Pul, Ethiopia, and Phut. So the Septuagint, Εἰς τήν Ἑλλάδα Eis tēn Hellada - 'To Greece.' (R. They know nothing of the God of love. I. Biblical Commentary Isaiah 66:10-14 EXEGESIS: ISAIAH 66. 1. And Lud - Jerome renders this, ‹Lydia.‘ The Septuagint ‹Lud.‘ There was a Lydia in Asia Minor - the kingdom of the celebrated Croesus; but it is generally supposed that this place was in Africa. Peter says that this day will follow cataclysmic judgment on the earth. The prophet, in these verses, writes of events in the manner of foreshortened prediction; that is, of events as occurring quite in his own times, or somewhat later, but which, in point of fact, extend into the far future. Isaiah 66:1-2 "On this one will I look" in Isaiah 66:2 means "I will pay attention to this person." (u) I will make these that I chose, that they perish not with the rest of the infidels: by which he alludes to the marking of the posts of his people, whom he preserved, Ex 12:7. (Haydock) --- Men of all nations shall be converted, and brought by angels to the Church. Javan — the Greeks; called Ionians, including all the descendants of Javan, both in Greece and in Asia Minor (Genesis 10:2-4). This may refer to the144,000 Jewish missionaries that God will send throughout the earth during the Tribulation (cf. 4 , 6 ) and “God’s holy mountain” as a house of prayer (v. Isaiah 66:19 "And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, [to] Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, [to] Tubal, and Javan, [to] the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles."

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