The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Isaiah, Volume 2 (of 2)Smith, George Adam
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The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Isaiah, Volume 2 (of 2)
Smith, George Adam
Bible. Isaiah -- Commentaries
Having thus assured His loyal remnant of the restoration of Zion, in
spite of their fewness, Jehovah in the next few verses (4-8) extends
the prospect of His glory to the world: _Revelation shall go forth from
Me, and I will make My Law to light on the nations._ Revelation and Law
between them summarise His will. As He identified them both with the
Servant's work (ch. xl. 11), so here He tells the loyal in Israel, who
were in one aspect His Servant, that they shall surely come to pass;
and in the next little oracle, vv. 7, 8, He exhorts them to do that in
which the Servant has been set forth as an example: _fear ye not the
reproach of men, neither be dismayed at their revilings. For like a
garment the moth shall eat them up, and like wool shall the worm devour
them._ It is a response in almost the same words to the Servant's
profession of confidence in God in ch. l. 7-9. By some it is used as
an argument to show that the Servant and the godly remnant are to our
prophet still virtually one and the same; but we have already seen (ch.
l. 10) the godfearing addressed as distinct from the Servant, and can
only understand here that they are once more exhorted to take him as
their example. But if the likeness of the passage on the Servant to
this passage on the suffering Remnant does not prove that Remnant and
Servant are the same, it is certainly an indication that both passages,
so far from being pieced together out of different poems, are most
probably due to the same author and were produced originally in the
same current of thought.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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