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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 24:22 - 24:22
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in the pit - rather, “for the pit” [Horsley]. “In the dungeon” [Maurer]. Image from captives thrust together into a dungeon.
prison - that is, as in a prison. This sheds light on the disputed passage, 1Pe 3:19, where also the prison is figurative: The “shutting up” of the Jews in Jerusalem under Nebuchadnezzar, and again under Titus, was to be followed by a visitation of mercy “after many days” - seventy years in the case of the former - the time is not yet elapsed in the case of the latter. Horsley takes “visited” in a bad sense, namely, in wrath, as in Isa 26:14; compare Isa 29:6; the punishment being the heavier in the fact of the delay. Probably a double visitation is intended, deliverance to the elect, wrath to hardened unbelievers; as Isa 24:23 plainly contemplates judgments on proud sinners, symbolized by the “sun” and “moon.”