Post by Lee on Jun 21, 2014 2:42:24 GMT
This term JESHURUN (Delightful, Righteous One) is only found in the prophets in this place, and only three times elsewhere, namely, in Deut. 32, and 33. It is there found in Moses’ song, and in his last blessing of the tribes. In the song it is applied to the nation of Israel, “Yahweh’s portion and the lot of his inheritance.” Though delivered from bondage and blessed abundantly, “Jeshurun waxed fat and kicked … and forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.” He provoked God to anger and moved Him to jealousy by his idolatry, so that God determined to provoke him to anger and move him to jealousy by the call of the Gentiles (Rom. 10). In the accomplishment of this purpose the individual JESHURUN comes into view—in contrast with the national—for He waxed not fat nor kicked, nor forsook God who made him, nor lightly esteemed the rock of his salvation.
He it is (and “his seed”) who is the subject of the gracious promise:
“I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring” (5:3). “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.” “If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.”
These sayings of Jesus at once identify him with the prophecy, and define the thirst in question and the nature of its satisfaction. In John’s account in the last passage quoted (7:39), he goes on to say: “This he spake of the Spirit which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Spirit was not yet given; because Jesus was not yet glorified.” But when Jesus was glorified, then, on the day of Pentecost, and in fulfilment of this and other prophecies, the spirit was poured out upon “his seed,” and God’s blessing upon “his offspring,” in the manner recorded in the Acts of the Apostles. But even this was only an earnest of what shall be, for their “hunger and thirst” was only partially satisfied. Like David, they still longed exceedingly for the time when they should, like their Lord, “come and appear before God.” But in following JESHURUN the Chosen One, this was at last assured. In due time they will come forth from the grave as he did, and the spirit will be poured upon them to the extent of swallowing up mortality of life, and revealing them as “the spirits of just men made perfect,” even as “the Lord the spirit”; for, as he said to Nicodemus, “that which is born of the spirit is spirit.”
Robert Roberts, & Walker, C. C. (1907). The Ministry of the Prophets: Isaiah (567–568). The Publishing Commitee, Christadelphian Old Paths Ecclesia.
He it is (and “his seed”) who is the subject of the gracious promise:
“I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring” (5:3). “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.” “If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.”
These sayings of Jesus at once identify him with the prophecy, and define the thirst in question and the nature of its satisfaction. In John’s account in the last passage quoted (7:39), he goes on to say: “This he spake of the Spirit which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Spirit was not yet given; because Jesus was not yet glorified.” But when Jesus was glorified, then, on the day of Pentecost, and in fulfilment of this and other prophecies, the spirit was poured out upon “his seed,” and God’s blessing upon “his offspring,” in the manner recorded in the Acts of the Apostles. But even this was only an earnest of what shall be, for their “hunger and thirst” was only partially satisfied. Like David, they still longed exceedingly for the time when they should, like their Lord, “come and appear before God.” But in following JESHURUN the Chosen One, this was at last assured. In due time they will come forth from the grave as he did, and the spirit will be poured upon them to the extent of swallowing up mortality of life, and revealing them as “the spirits of just men made perfect,” even as “the Lord the spirit”; for, as he said to Nicodemus, “that which is born of the spirit is spirit.”
Robert Roberts, & Walker, C. C. (1907). The Ministry of the Prophets: Isaiah (567–568). The Publishing Commitee, Christadelphian Old Paths Ecclesia.