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Isaías 30:26
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Y será la luz de la luna como la luz del sol, y la luz del sol será siete veces mayor, como la luz de siete días, el día que el Señor ponga una venda en la fractura de su pueblo y cure la llaga que El ha causado.
Y la luz de la luna ser� como la luz del sol, y la luz del sol siete veces mayor, como la luz de siete d�as, el d�a que soldar� Jehov� la quebradura de su pueblo, y curar� la llaga de su herida.
Y la luz de la luna ser� como la luz del Sol; y la luz del Sol siete veces mayor, como la luz de siete d�as, el d�a que soldar� el SE�OR la quebradura de su pueblo, y curar� la llaga de su herida.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the light of the moon: Isaiah 11:9, Isaiah 24:23, Isaiah 60:19, Isaiah 60:20, Zechariah 12:8, Zechariah 14:7, Revelation 21:23, Revelation 22:5
bindeth: Isaiah 1:6, Deuteronomy 32:39, Job 5:18, Jeremiah 33:5, Jeremiah 33:6, Lamentations 2:13, Hebrews 6:1, Hebrews 6:2, Amos 9:11
Reciprocal: Psalms 60:2 - heal Isaiah 25:8 - rebuke Isaiah 32:3 - General Isaiah 52:8 - see Isaiah 60:17 - brass Jeremiah 6:14 - hurt Jeremiah 30:17 - For I Jeremiah 31:34 - for they Ezekiel 36:11 - will do Ezekiel 47:9 - for they Daniel 12:4 - many Hosea 11:3 - I healed Malachi 4:2 - the Sun Matthew 11:11 - he that Acts 26:13 - above
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun,.... An hyperbolical expression, used to set forth the exceeding great light of the Gospel under the dispensation of it, which would as far exceed the light of the former dispensation, comparable to the moon, as the light of the sun exceeds the light of the moon; as also that great degree of spiritual joy and comfort that should be in those times, especially in the latter day; and the Jews themselves apply this to the times of the Messiah, and to the times after the war of Gog and Magog, after which they say there will be no more sorrow and distress; so Kimchi; and to these times it is applied in the Talmud h; and Aben Ezra says, that all interpreters understand it of the time to come:
and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days; as if the light of seven days was collected together; or as if there were seven suns shining together. The Targum and Jarchi not only make it to be seven times seven, that is, forty nine; but multiply forty nine by seven, and make it three hundred and forty three, or as the light of so many days. Maimonides i thinks it has respect to the seven days of the dedication of the temple in Solomon's time, when the people never had such glory, felicity, and joy, as at that time: with this compare the light of the New Jerusalem state, Revelation 21:23:
in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound; not only peace being made, by the blood of Christ, between God and his people, and they healed by his stripes, and Jew and Gentile reconciled in one body on his cross, and through the preaching of the Gospel; but as will be in the latter day, the fulness of the Gentiles will be brought in, and all Israel shall be saved; and all the Lord's people will be one in his hands, and be entirely freed from all grievances and afflictions by the man of sin, who will now be destroyed, and also will be in a sound and healthful state and condition. This will be at the time of the rising and ascending of the witnesses, Revelation 11:11.
h T. Bab. Pesach. fol. 68. 1. & Gloss. in ib. & Sanhedrin, fol. 91. 2. i More Nevochim, par. 2. c. 29. p. 267.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Moreover - In addition to all the blessings which are enumerated above.
The light of the moon - Light is in the Scriptures an emblem of purity, intelligence, happiness, prosperity; as darkness is an emblem of ignorance, calamity, and sin. This figure is often used by the poets. Thus Horace:
Soles melius nitent.
Carm. liv.: Od. v. 8.
The figure of augmenting light to denote the blessings of religion, and especially of the gospel, is often employed by Isaiah (compare the notes at Isaiah 2:5; Isaiah 9:2; Isaiah 10:17; Isaiah 13:10; Isaiah 58:8, Isaiah 58:10; Isaiah 60:1, Isaiah 60:3, Isaiah 60:19-20). The sense of this passage is, that in those future days the light would shine intensely, and without obscurity; that though they had been walking in the light of the true religion, yet that their light would be greatly augmented, and that they would have much clearer views of the divine character and government. That this refers to the times of the Messiah there can be little or no room to doubt. It is language such as Isaiah commonly employs to describe those times; and there is a fullness and splendor about it which can suit no other period. There is nothing in the connection, moreover, which forbids such an interpretation of the passage.
Shall be as the light of the sun - Shall be clear, bright, intense. The sense is, there shall be a great increase of light, as if the light of the moon were suddenly increased to the brightness of the meridian sun.
Shall be seven-fold - Seven times as intense and clear as usual, as if the light of seven days were concentrated into one. The word ‘seven’ in the Scriptures often denotes a complete or perfect number; and indicates “completeness” or “perfections.” The phrase ‘as the light of seven days,’ Lowth supposes is a gloss which has been introduced into the text from the margin. The reasons which he adduces for this supposition are, that it is missing in the Septuagint, and that it interrupts the rhythmical construction. But this is not sufficient authority for rejecting the words from the text. No authority of MSS. is adduced for thus rejecting them, and they are found in the Vulgate, the Chaldee, and the Syriac. They are missing, however, in the Arabic.
In the day - Vitringa supposes that this refers to the time of the Maccabees; but although there may be a reference to that time, yet the idea is evidently designed to include the future times of the Messiah. The sense of the prophet is, that subsequent to the great calamities which were to befall them, there would be a time of glorious prosperity, and the design of this was to comfort them with the assurance that their nation would not be wholly destroyed.
Bindeth up the breach of his people - Or the wound. The calamity that should come upon them is thus represented as a wound inflicted on them by the stripes of punishment (see the notes at Isaiah 1:5). Yahweh would heal it by restoring them to their own land, and to their former privileges.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Isaiah 30:26. Shall be sevenfold — The text adds כאור שבעת הימים keor shibath haiyamayim, "as the light of seven days," a manifest gloss, taken in from the margin; it is not in most of the copies of the Septuagint. It interrupts the rhythmical construction, and obscures the sense by a false, or at least an unnecessary, interpretation.
By moon, sun, light, are to be understood the abundance of spiritual and temporal felicity, with which God should bless them in the days of the Messiah, which should be sevenfold, i.e. vastly exceed all that they had ever before possessed.