Lectionary Calendar
Thursday, November 21st, 2024
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Bible Commentaries
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible Dummelow on the Bible
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Bibliographical Information
Dummelow, John. "Commentary on Isaiah 32". "Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/eng/dcb/isaiah-32.html. 1909.
Dummelow, John. "Commentary on Isaiah 32". "Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible". https://www.studylight.org/
Whole Bible (45)Old Testament (1)Individual Books (4)
Verses 1-20
1-8. Characteristics of the future age.
9-14. A warning of coming desolation to the over-confident people.
15-20. Afterwards shall be a peaceful and prosperous future.
1. The ideal future.
2. Men will defend and protect their inferiors instead of oppressing them.
3. Cp. Isaiah 29:18.
5f. Moral confusion shall cease; men shall be taken at their true value, their character being clearly seen in their actions.
6. Hypocrisy] RV ’profaneness.’
8. By.. stand] RV ’in liberal things shall he continue.’
9-14. Cp. Isaiah 3:16-26.
10. Many.. years] RM ’Days above a year,’ i.e. in little more than a year.
12. Lament.. teats] RV ’smite upon the breasts,’ a gesture of despairing lamentation over the desolated vineyards.
14. Multitude.. city] RV ’populous city.’
15. A limit is set to the desolation. A bright future is in store, when the outward transformation of the country will correspond with the moral reformation (Isaiah 32:16). This change alike in man and in nature is attributed,’ to an outpouring of the divine and life-giving spirit.
19. When] RV ’but’: a judgment is to precede the time of peace just described.
Coming, etc.] RV ’in the downfall of the forest,’ i.e. of the Assyrian. The city] Jerusalem too must be humbled.
20. Refers to the bright future again, when the land shortly to be desolate (Isaiah 32:13-14) shall be fully cultivated. Beside all waters] for the land will be everywhere irrigated (Isaiah 30:25).