Post by Lee on Jul 11, 2014 2:05:21 GMT
Isa 66:19 And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.
Dr. Thomas treats the phrase “that draw the bow” as a metaphor, equivalent to “that sound the truth,” or “sounders of the truth,” after the examples of 2 Sam. 1:18; Psa. 64:3; Jer. 9:3; Hab. 3:9; Rev. 6:2—Eureka, vol. ii, p. 130. It may be so. Or, if the Septuagint be right, the original text must have been somewhat different, and Moschi should be a proper name, Meshech, which is one of the nations mentioned in Ezek. 38, 39. In any case the meaning is clear, only in the latter the geographical area seems to be more extended, even unto the remote dominions of the King of the North. But however we may construe it, it is certain, as is here revealed in another verse (18), that “all nations shall come and see God’s glory.”
Robert Roberts, & Walker, C. C. (1907). The Ministry of the Prophets: Isaiah (757)
Dr. Thomas treats the phrase “that draw the bow” as a metaphor, equivalent to “that sound the truth,” or “sounders of the truth,” after the examples of 2 Sam. 1:18; Psa. 64:3; Jer. 9:3; Hab. 3:9; Rev. 6:2—Eureka, vol. ii, p. 130. It may be so. Or, if the Septuagint be right, the original text must have been somewhat different, and Moschi should be a proper name, Meshech, which is one of the nations mentioned in Ezek. 38, 39. In any case the meaning is clear, only in the latter the geographical area seems to be more extended, even unto the remote dominions of the King of the North. But however we may construe it, it is certain, as is here revealed in another verse (18), that “all nations shall come and see God’s glory.”
Robert Roberts, & Walker, C. C. (1907). The Ministry of the Prophets: Isaiah (757)