Post by Lee on Sept 16, 2014 1:14:04 GMT
This chapter, like others in the same prophet, is full of plays on names; by which the attention of the living was arrested, and knowledge hidden for the generations to come, who should arise to witness the fulfilment of the prophet’s words. Thus Azubah—Forsaken, was the name of Asa’s queen, the mother of Jehoshaphat (1 Kings 22:42). Her name applies to the Holy City during the long time of the “great forsaking” (Azubah, Isa. 6:12). We know nothing of her character; but if it was anything like that of Maachah, Asa’s mother (2 Chron. 15:16) there may be a correspondence between the name and the cause of the “forsaking.” The final promise of this chapter is that Jerusalem shall be called “a city not forsaken.”
Then again in the days of Hezekiah = Yah is Strength, when Isaiah uttered these words, his queen was named Hephzibah = My Delight is in Her (2 Kings 21:1). She was the mother of Manasseh, who filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and made the people “do worse than the heathen.” Her name, however, applies to the city in the time of restoration when “Yahweh delighteth in her.” Hezekiah was a good King, and it is probable that he was supported in his energetic suppression of idolatry and restoration of the worship of Yahweh, by Hephzibah his Queen.
Thus the events of those days and the names of the chief actors of the times were connected in measure with the message of the prophet, as will be more distinctly seen in the resurrection. But the substance is all of Christ The New Name is representative of a new experience. It was referred to by the other prophets before Christ himself made it clear for ever. Daniel in captivity, remembering the promise of restoration, prayed for the city called by God’s name, saying, “Defer not, O my God, for thy city and thy people are called by thy name” (Dan. 9:18, 19). Ezekiel concludes his visions of the restoration of the city which had been smitten, by the declaration. “The name of the city from that day shall be, The Lord is there” (Ezek. 48:35).
Robert Roberts, & Walker, C. C. (1907). The Ministry of the Prophets: Isaiah (718–719). The Publishing Commitee, Christadelphian Old Paths Ecclesia.
Then again in the days of Hezekiah = Yah is Strength, when Isaiah uttered these words, his queen was named Hephzibah = My Delight is in Her (2 Kings 21:1). She was the mother of Manasseh, who filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and made the people “do worse than the heathen.” Her name, however, applies to the city in the time of restoration when “Yahweh delighteth in her.” Hezekiah was a good King, and it is probable that he was supported in his energetic suppression of idolatry and restoration of the worship of Yahweh, by Hephzibah his Queen.
Thus the events of those days and the names of the chief actors of the times were connected in measure with the message of the prophet, as will be more distinctly seen in the resurrection. But the substance is all of Christ The New Name is representative of a new experience. It was referred to by the other prophets before Christ himself made it clear for ever. Daniel in captivity, remembering the promise of restoration, prayed for the city called by God’s name, saying, “Defer not, O my God, for thy city and thy people are called by thy name” (Dan. 9:18, 19). Ezekiel concludes his visions of the restoration of the city which had been smitten, by the declaration. “The name of the city from that day shall be, The Lord is there” (Ezek. 48:35).
Robert Roberts, & Walker, C. C. (1907). The Ministry of the Prophets: Isaiah (718–719). The Publishing Commitee, Christadelphian Old Paths Ecclesia.