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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 8:16 - 8:16
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Bind up ... seal - What Isaiah had before briefly noted by inscribing Maher-shalal-hash-baz in a tablet, fixed up in some public place, he afterwards wrote out more in detail in a parchment roll (Isa 30:8); this he is now to seal up, not merely in order that nothing may be added to, or taken from it, as being complete, but to imply that it relates to distant events, and is therefore to be a sealed and not understood testimony (Isa 6:9, Isa 6:10), except in part among God’s “disciples,” that is, those who “sanctify the Lord” by obedient trust (Psa 25:14). Subsequent revelations would afterwards clear up what now was dark. So the Apocalypse explains what in Daniel was left unexplained (compare Dan 8:26; Dan 12:9). “The words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end”; but Rev 22:10, “Seal not the sayings of the prophecy ... for the time is at hand” (compare Rev 5:1, Rev 5:5, Rev 5:9),
testimony - attested by Uriah and Zechariah (Isa 8:2).
law - the revelation just given, having the force of a law.
disciples - not as Maurer, Uriah and Zechariah (compare Joh 7:17; Joh 15:15).