Post by Lee on May 15, 2014 2:35:51 GMT
‘stay and staff' (ch. 3:1). These two words are the same word in the Hebrew, but the first is in the masculine gender; the second is feminine, and it means “support; protection; sustenance,” therefore covering every aspect of their life. This is emphasised by the ‘support of bread and of water,’ both to be seen in a spiritual application of ‘the bread of life’ and the ‘waters of salvation’ (Deu. 8:3; Isa. 12:3). - GEM, Logos
This is a cutting off of all supplies and a clean sweep of all orders of society—which took place in due course through the long series of calamities—political, military, and physical—to which Israel was subjected—by which, the Jewish nation, the most effective and illustrious of peoples in all that makes a nation great, was brought down to its present barren state.
Robert Roberts, & Walker, C. C. (1907). The Ministry of the Prophets: Isaiah (64).
This is a cutting off of all supplies and a clean sweep of all orders of society—which took place in due course through the long series of calamities—political, military, and physical—to which Israel was subjected—by which, the Jewish nation, the most effective and illustrious of peoples in all that makes a nation great, was brought down to its present barren state.
Robert Roberts, & Walker, C. C. (1907). The Ministry of the Prophets: Isaiah (64).