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Isa 32:1-20.

MESSIAH'S KINGDOM; DESOLATIONS, TO BE SUCCEEDED BY LASTING PEACE, THE SPIRIT HAVING BEEN POURED OUT.

The times of purity and happiness which shall follow the defeat of the enemies of Jehovah's people

(Isa 32:1-8).

The period of wrath before that happy state

(Isa 32:9-14).

The assurance of the final prosperity of the Church is repeated

(Isa 32:15-20).

1. king--not Hezekiah, who was already on the throne, whereas a future 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

(Ho 3:5; Zec 9:9;

see on

Isa 11:3-5).

The kingdom shall be transferred from the world kings, who have exercised their power against God, instead of for God, to the rightful King of kings

(Eze 21:27; Da 7:13, 14).

princes--subordinate; referring to all in authority under Christ in the coming kingdom on earth, for example, the apostles, &c.

(Lu 22:30; 1Co 6:2; 2Ti 2:12; Re 2:26, 27; 3:21).

2. a man--rather, the man Christ [LOWTH]; it is as "the Son of man" He is to reign, as it was as Son of man He suffered

(Mt 26:64; Joh 5:27; 19:5).

Not as MAURER explains, "every one of the princes shall be," &c.

rivers--as refreshing as water and the cool shade are to the heated traveller

(Isa 35:6, 7; 41:18).

3. them that see--the seers or prophets.

them that hear--the people under instruction

(Isa 35:5, 6).

4. rash--rather, "the hasty"; contrast "shall not make haste"

(Isa 28:16);

the reckless who will not take time to weigh religious truth aright. Or else, the well-instructed [HORSLEY].

stammers--those who speak confusedly on divine things (compare

Ex 4:10-12; Jer 1:6; Mt 10:19, 20).

Or, rather, those drunken scorners who in stammering style imitated Isaiah's warnings to mock them [MAURER]

(Isa 28:7-11, 13, 14, 22; 29:20);

in this view, translate, "speak uprightly" (agreeably to the divine law); not as English Version, referring to the distinctness of articulation, "plainly."

5. vile--rather, "fool" [LOWTH]; that is, ungodly

(Ps 14:1; 74:18).

liberal--rather, "noble-minded."

churl--rather, "fraudulent" [GESENIUS].

bountiful--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].

6. vile . . . villainy--rather, "the (irreligious) fool . . . (his) folly."

will speak--rather, "present"; for (so far is the "fool" from deserving the epithet "noble-minded") the fool "speaketh" folly and "worketh," &c.

hypocrisy--rather, "profligacy" [HORSLEY].

error--impiety, perverse arguments.

hungry--spiritually

(Mt 5:6).

7. churl--"the fraudulent"; this verse refers to the last clause of

Isa 32:5;

as

Isa 32:6

referred to its first clause.

speaketh right--pleadeth a just cause

(Isa 29:21);

spiritually, "the poor man's cause" is the divine doctrine, his rule of faith and practice.

8. liberal--rather, "noble-minded."

stand--shall be approved under the government of the righteous King.