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Isaías 66:1
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Así dice el Señor : El cielo es mi trono y la tierra el estrado de mis pies. ¿Dónde, pues, está la casa que podríais edificarme? ¿Dónde está el lugar de mi reposo?
JEHOVA dijo as�: El cielo es mi solio, y la tierra estrado de mis pies: �d�nde est� la casa que me habr�is de edificar, y d�nde este lugar de mi reposo?
El SE�OR dijo as�: El cielo es mi trono, y la tierra, estrado de mis pies; �d�nde quedar� esta Casa que me habr�is edificado, y d�nde quedar� este lugar de mi reposo?
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
The heaven: 1 Kings 8:27, 1 Chronicles 28:2, 2 Chronicles 6:18, Psalms 11:4, Psalms 99:9, Psalms 132:7, Matthew 5:34, Matthew 5:35, Matthew 23:21, Matthew 23:22, Acts 17:24
where is the house: 2 Samuel 7:5-7, Jeremiah 7:4-11, Malachi 1:11, Matthew 24:2, John 4:20, John 4:21, Acts 7:48-50
Reciprocal: Exodus 15:2 - an habitation Exodus 17:16 - Because Numbers 10:33 - a resting place Deuteronomy 10:14 - the heaven Deuteronomy 12:5 - habitation Deuteronomy 26:15 - Look down 1 Chronicles 17:5 - dwelt 1 Chronicles 29:11 - all that 2 Chronicles 2:6 - But who 2 Chronicles 6:41 - thy resting 2 Chronicles 20:6 - God in heaven 2 Chronicles 30:27 - his holy dwelling place Ezra 1:2 - Lord God Job 22:12 - not God Psalms 2:4 - He that Psalms 33:14 - General Psalms 68:5 - in his Psalms 99:5 - footstool Psalms 103:19 - prepared Psalms 113:4 - his glory Psalms 115:16 - heaven Psalms 123:1 - O thou Psalms 132:5 - an habitation Psalms 132:14 - my rest Isaiah 6:1 - sitting Isaiah 33:5 - he dwelleth Isaiah 40:22 - It is he that sitteth Isaiah 57:15 - I dwell Isaiah 60:13 - the place Isaiah 63:15 - the habitation Jeremiah 3:16 - The ark Jeremiah 3:17 - the throne Jeremiah 17:12 - General Jeremiah 23:24 - Do Lamentations 3:66 - heavens Ezekiel 43:7 - and the place Daniel 2:11 - whose Habakkuk 2:20 - the Lord Malachi 4:2 - that fear Matthew 6:9 - which Matthew 11:25 - Lord Luke 10:21 - Lord John 4:23 - true Acts 6:14 - that Revelation 21:22 - I saw
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thus saith the Lord, the heaven is my throne,.... The third heaven, the heaven of heavens, where angels and glorified saints are, and some in bodies, as Enoch and Elijah, and where now Christ is in human nature; this is the seat of the divine Majesty, where he in a most illustrious manner displays his glory; and therefore we are to look upwards to God in heaven, and direct all our devotion to him there, and not imagine that he dwells in temples made with hands; or is confined to any place, and much less to any on earth, as the temple at Jerusalem, the Jews boasted of, and trusted in; and which were the unworthy notions they had of God in the times of Christ and his disciples; to confute which these words are here said, and for this purpose are quoted and applied by Stephen, Acts 7:48.
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and the earth is my footstool: on which he treads, is below him, subject to him, and at his dispose; and therefore is not limited to any part of it, or included in any place in it; though he for a while condescended to make the cherubim his throne, and the ark his footstool, in the most holy place in the temple; which were all figurative of other and better things, and so no more used:
where is the house that ye build unto me? what house can be built for such an immense Being? and how needless as well as fruitless is it to attempt it? where can a place be found to build one in, since the heaven is his throne, and the earth his footstool? and therefore, if any place, it must be some that is without them both, and that can hold both; but what space can be conceived of that can contain such a throne and footstool, and much less him that sits thereon? see 1 Kings 8:27:
and where is the place of my rest? for God to take up his rest and residence in, as a man does in his house? no such place can be found for him, nor does he need any; indeed the temple was built for an house of rest for the ark of the Lord, which before was moved from place to place; but then this was merely typical of the church, which God has chosen for his rest, and where he will dwell, as well as of heaven, the resting place of his people with him to all eternity; no place on earth is either his rest or theirs.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The heaven is my throne - (See the notes at Isaiah 57:15). Here he is represented as having his seat or throne there. He speaks as a king. heaven is the place where he holds his court; from where he dispenses his commands; and from where he surveys all his works (compare 2 Chronicles 6:18; Matthew 5:34). The idea here is, that as God dwelt in the vast and distant heavens, no house that could be built on earth could be magnificent enough to be his abode.
The earth is my footstool - A footstool is that which is placed under the feet when we sit. The idea here is, that God was so glorious that even the earth itself could be regarded only as his footstool. It is probable that the Saviour had this passage in his eye in his declaration in the sermon on the mount, ‘Swear not at all; neither by heaven, for it is God’s throne; nor by the earth, for it is his footstool’ Matthew 5:34-35.
Where is the house that ye build unto me? - What house can you build that will be an appropriate dwelling for him who fills heaven and earth? The same idea, substantially, was expressed by Solomon when he dedicated the temple: ‘But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, the heaven, and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded!’ 1 Kings 8:27. Substantially the same thought is found in the address of Paul at Athens: ‘God, that made the world, and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands’ Acts 17:24.
And where is the place of my rest? - It has already been intimated (in the analysis) that this refers probably to the time subsequent to the captivity. Lowth supposes that it refers to the time of the rebuilding of the temple by Herod. So also Vitringa understands it, and supposes that it refers to the pride and self-confidence of those who then imagined that they were rearing a structure that was worthy of being a dwelling-place of Yahweh. Grotius supposes that it refers to the time of the Maccabees, and that it was designed to give consolation to the pious of those times when they were about to witness the profanation of the temple by Antiochus, and the cessation of the sacrifices for three years and a half. ‘God therefore shows,’ says he, ‘that there was no reason why they should be offended in this thing. The most acceptable temple to him was a pious mind; and from that the value of all sacrifices was to be estimated.’ Abarbanel supposes that it refers to the times of redemption.
His words are these: ‘I greatly wonder at the words of the learned interpreting this prophecy, when they say that the prophet in this accuses the people of his own time on account of sacrifices offered with impure hands, for lo! all these prophecies which the prophet utters in the end of his book have respect to future redemption.’ See Vitringa. That it refers to some future time when the temple should be rebuilt seems to me to be evident. But what precise period it refers to - whether to times not far succeeding the captivity, or to the times of the Maccabees, or to the time of the rebuilding of the temple by Herod, it is difficult to find any data by which we can determine. From the whole strain of the prophecy, and particularly from Isaiah 66:3-5, it seems probable that it refers to the time when the temple which Herod had reared was finishing; when the nation was full of pride, self-righteousness, and hypocrisy; and when all sacrifices were about to be superseded by the one great sacrifice which the Messiah was to make for the sins of the world. At that time, God says that the spirit which would be evinced by the nation would be abominable in his sight; and to offer sacrifice then, and with the spirit which they would manifest, would be as offensive as murder or the sacrifice of a dog (see the notes at Isaiah 66:3).
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER LXVI
This chapter treats of the same subject with the foregoing.
God, by his prophet, tells the Jews, who valued themselves much
on their temple and pompous worship, that the Most High
dwelleth not in temples made with hands; and that no outward
rites of worship, while the worshippers are idolatrous and
impure, can please him who looketh at the heart, 1-3. This leads to a threatening of vengeance for their guilt,
alluding to their making void the law of God by their
abominable traditions, their rejection of Christ, persecution
of his followers, and consequent destruction by the Romans. But
as the Jewish ritual and people shadow forth the system of
Christianity and its professors; so, in the prophetical
writings, the idolatries of the Jews are frequently put for the
idolatries afterwards practiced by those bearing the Christian
name. Consequently, if we would have the plenitude of meaning
in this section of prophecy, which the very content requires,
we must look through the type into the antitype, viz., the very
gross idolatries practised by the members of Antichrist, the
pompous heap of human intentions and traditions with which they
have encumbered the Christian system, their most dreadful
persecution of Christ's spiritual and true worshippers, and the
awful judgments which shall overtake them in the great and
terrible day of the Lord, 4-6. The mighty and sudden increase of the Church of Jesus Christ at
the period of Antichrist's fall represented by the very strong
figure of Sion being delivered of a man-child before the time
of her travail, the meaning of which symbol the prophet
immediately subjoins in a series of interrogations for the sake
of greater force and emphasis, 7-9. Wonderful prosperity and unspeakable blessedness of the world
when the posterity of Jacob, with the fulness of the Gentiles,
shall be assembled to Messiah's standard, 10-14. All the wicked of the earth shall be gathered together to the
battle of that great day of God Almighty, and the slain of
Jehovah shall be many, 15-18. Manner of the future restoration of the Israelites from their
several dispersions throughout the habitable globe, 19-21. Perpetuity of this new economy of grace to the house of Israel,
22. Righteousness shall be universally diffused in the earth; and
the memory of those who have transgressed against the Lord
shall be had in continual abhorrence, 23, 24. Thus this great prophet, after tracing the principal events of
time, seems at length to have terminated his views in eternity,
where all revolutions cease, where the blessedness of the
righteous shall be unchangeable as the new heavens, and the
misery of the wicked as the fire that shall not be quenched.
NOTES ON CHAP. LXVI
This chapter is a continuation of the subject of the foregoing. The Jews valued themselves much upon their temple, and the pompous system of services performed in it, which they supposed were to be of perpetual duration; and they assumed great confidence and merit to themselves for their strict observance of all the externals of their religion. And at the very time when the judgments denounced in verses Isaiah 66:6 and 12 of the preceding chapter Isaiah 65:6; Isaiah 65:12 were hanging over their heads, they were rebuilding, by Herod's munificence, the temple in a most magnificent manner. God admonishes them, that "the Most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands;" and that a mere external worship, how diligently soever attended, when accompanied with wicked and idolatrous practices in the worshippers, would never be accepted by him. This their hypocrisy is set forth in strong colours, which brings the prophet again to the subject of the former chapter; and he pursues it in a different manner, with more express declaration of the new economy, and of the flourishing state of the Church under it. The increase of the Church is to be sudden and astonishing. They that escape of the Jews, that is, that become converts to the Christian faith, are to be employed in the Divine mission to the Gentiles, and are to act as priests in presenting the Gentiles as an offering to God; see Romans 15:16. And both, now collected into one body, shall be witnesses of the final perdition of the obstinate and irreclaimable.
These two chapters manifestly relate to the calling of the Gentiles, the establishment of the Christian dispensation, and the reprobation of the apostate Jews, and their destruction executed by the Romans. - L.
