: W.E. Vine
: Isaiah A Chapter-by-Chapter Commentary
: Kingsley Books
: 9781912149452
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: Christentum
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Isaiah is an Old Testament book of prophecies, promises, and warnings. W.E. Vine's commentary seeks to unfold the message of Isaiah and also 'to bring to bear upon the lives of believers the practical effects of the book.' Rich in history and promise, Isaiah contains messages of woe to the nations around Judah and to Judah itself. But it also pictures the restoration of the righteous and includes the servant songs that are a picture of Jesus Christ. Although Vine does not dwell on critical questions, he indicates his belief in the unity of the authorship of Isaiah and his commentaries on the prophetic sections is marked by a futurist element. 'W.E. Vine has concentrated on the moral and spiritual lessons of Isaiah,' wrote F.F. Bruce, 'and presented them in a way which will prove very helpful to the general reader.'

CHAPTER ONE

Prophecies Concerning Judah and Israel

CHAPTERS 1 - 12

Chapter 1

The prophet begins with the mention of his subject and the time of his writing. The subject is Judah and Jerusalem, and it is to be noticed that this twofold theme is prominent in chapters 40–66 as much as in 1–39, and that it involves a constant reference throughout the book to the whole nation of Israel.

He invokes the heavens and the earth to be witnesses to what the Lord has spoken, just as Moses did in Deuteronomy 32:1, and, as also did Moses, he proceeds to declare the grievous ways of God’s people. God had acted toward Israel as a Father, nourishing(r.v. marg., “exalting,” i.e., making them great, as in natural growth) and bringing them up, and they had fallen away from Him(v. 3). Israel was His wayward son (Ex. 4:22, 23; cp. Deut. 14:1; 32:20).

What He had done for them as a nation, He has done for us individually and spiritually. The record of their apostasy is written “for our admonition” (1 Cor. 10:11). How we need therefore to take heed lest we grieve Him, as they did, and suffer eternal loss!

Inverse 3, the Lord declares that the way His people have behaved is worse than that of the brutes.“The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s (a plural in the original, not of number, but expressive of fullness of authority, as in Ex. 21:29)crib: but Israel doth not know, My people doth not consider,”i.e., that the Lord was their Owner and Master, that they belonged to Him and were dependent upon Him for all they required.

This twofold relationship with God is ours and needs to be always kept in mind, in all our ways and service.

Inverse 4, Isaiah speaks, breaking out into stern denunciation and lamenting over Israel as sinful, guilt-laden, a race of evildoers, a family corrupt in their ways. Their guilt was threefold. Each description is set in contrast to what God had designed them to be. They are(a) a“sinful nation”; the Lord had said “ye shall be unto Me . . . a holy nation” (Ex. 19:6);(b)“a people laden with iniquity”; God had chosen them to be “a peculiar people unto Himself (a people for His own possession) (Deut. 14:2);(c)“a seed of evildoers”; God had made them the “seed of Abraham” (Is. 41:8, of Isaac, Gen. 21:12, of Jacob, Is. 45:19);(d)“children that deal corruptly”; the Lord had declared to them “ye are the children of the Lord, your God” (Deu