“ For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him. ”
For his God doth instruct him ... - Margin, ‘He bindeth it in such sort as his God doth teach him.’ The more correct idea is conveyed in the text. The word יסרו yis e rô , properly means,...
The Husbandman Adapts his Methods to the Circumstances of Each Case. This parable may perhaps not have been spoken to the same audience as Isaiah 28:7-22 , but there is no valid reason for denying...
For his God, &c. Render: "For One hath instructed him in the right course; his God doth teach him". God. Hebrew. Elohim. App-4.
26. His God instructeth and teacheth him what is right. From whom did the husbandman learn these things but from God? If they are so well educated and taught in the smallest matters, what ou...
For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him. For his God doth instruct him - All nations have agreed in attributing agriculture, the most useful and the most necessary of all sc...
Give ye ear, &c.— We have here the fourth member of this section, in which this severe judgment of God denounced in the preceding verses, is defended by a parable taken from agriculture, wherei...
For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him. For his God doth instruct him to discretion - in the due rules of husbandry. God first taught it to man ( Genesis 3:23 ).
This chapter must be assigned ( Isaiah 28:1 ) to a date prior to the capture of Samaria by the Assyrians (722 b.c.) and fall of the northern kingdom. 1-6. Samaria's luxury and self-indulgence pave...
For his God doth instruct him to discretion... — Better, as in the margin, with a slight variation, He treateth each as is fitting, his God instructing him. The prophet looks on the skill of the...
BOOK 3 PROPHECIES FROM THE ACCESSION OF HEZEKIAH TO THE DEATH OF SARGON 727-705 B.C. THE prophecies with which we have been engaged (Chapter s 2-10:4) fall either before or during the great Assy...
Truth the only Refuge Isaiah 28:14-29 In the beginning of Hezekiah's reign the Jewish leaders had made an alliance with Assyria, on whom they relied to protect them against any and all foes. Bu...
Here begins the third and last circle of the first division of the book. It consists of a series of prophecies concerning the chosen people and the world. In this chapter we have a graphic revelatio...
The chapter ends very graciously, in showing the Church, under the similitude of the husbandman, how the Lord takes care of his household. And as Jesus hath sweetly set forth the same blessed truths,...
For his God doth instruct him to discretion, [and] doth teach him. God gives the husbandman instruction and discretion how to sow his seed, at what time, and in a proper place; for this refers to w...
For his God doth instruct him to discretion, [and] doth teach him. Ver. 26. For his God doth instruct him to discretion. ] Being a better tutor to him than any Varro de agricultura, Cato de re ru...
For his God doth instruct him The art of husbandry is so necessary for the support of human life, that all men have ascribed its original to God as the inventor and ordainer of it. The Most High h...
Husbandry a Divine Art. B. C. 725. 23 Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hea...
The sense of the words thus rendered is this, All this he performeth by that discretion which God hath put into him; and therefore be assured that God will order all his affairs with judgment, and wi...
The Parable of the Farmer and his Crops ( Isaiah 28:23-29 ). The point behind this parable is that the wise farmer thinks carefully about what he is doing and does not get bogged down in one activ...
Isaiah 28:1 . The crown of pride. Sebaste, the ancient Samaria, is situated on a long mount of an oval figure, having first a fruitful valley, and then a circle of hills running round about it. M...
The ploughman The parable of the ploughman and the thresher 1. The general drift of the parable is obvious. The husbandman does not forever vex and wound the tender bosom of the earth with the...
SECTION VII . RENEWED DENUNCIATIONS OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH ( CH . 28-31.) EXPOSITION Isaiah 28:1-23 A WARNING TO SAMARIA . The prophet has now east his eagle glance over t...
The Chastisement of the Lord of Hosts
Daniel 1:17 ; Exodus 28:3 ; Exodus 31:3-6 ; Exodus 36:2 ; James 1:17 ; Job 35:11 ; Job 39:17 ; Psalms 144:1