Lange Commentary - Isaiah 48:1 - 48:22

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Lange Commentary - Isaiah 48:1 - 48:22


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DOCTRINAL AND ETHICAL

1. On Isa_48:2. Innitebantur Israelitae urbi Hierosolymae et templo, cui Deus se sua cum praesentia gratiosa addixerat (Psa_132:13-14). Huic autem fiduciae propheta opponit ejus vanitatem. Nos inde petimus ἒëåã÷ïí adversus pontificios, qui papas suos continua successione ex apostolo Petro tanquam fonte perenni profluxisse, Romaeque in cathedra Petri sedisse et adhuc sedere gloriosissime jactitant. Sed hanc jactationem hoc loco confutat propheta. Nos addimus hasce patrum sententias. Nazianzenus in orat. de laudibus Athan.: “Qui in pietate succedit, in cathedra vera succedit; qui autem contrariam tenet sententiam, in contraria sedet cathedra.” Hieronymus referente Gratiano in jure pontifico part. 1 decr. dist. 40 Song of Solomon 2 : “Non est facile stare loco Pauli et tenere gratiam Petri cum Christo in coelis regnantium. Hinc dicitur. sancti non sunt qui tenent loca sanctorum, sed qui faciunt opera sanctorum.” Foerster.

2. On Isa_48:7. “Create means here to reveal something; what hitherto, so to speak, was still a nothing, or something unconjectured and unknown to all men, but was on the other hand shut up and concealed in God’s knowledge. Starke. “Tunc res dicitur fieri, quando incipit manifestius patefieri.” Augustinus, referente Lombardo, I. 3, dist. 18. Foerster.

3. On Isa_48:8. “Fiunt, non nascuntur Christiani said that same Tertullian, that designates the soul of a man as a naturalitur christiana. There is no contradiction. For one would neither become a Christian, did he not bear in himself the possibility of it, nor would the possibility alone suffice for the becoming. From the grain of corn alone without the fruit-bearing ground, rain and sunshine, there will come no ears; and just as little from the ground, rain and sunshine alone without the grain of corn.

4. On Isa_48:17-18. “Est insignis locus, qui nobis verbum commendat et minatur impiis verbi contemtoribus omnia mala.” Luther.

5. On Isa_48:20. “Babylon has a double meaning: 1) the world; 2) the anti-Christian kingdom. We should go out of the world by not having our walk according to it (1Jn_2:15; 1Pe_4:3; Jam_4:4). So, too, we ought to flee the anti-Christian Babylon according to the voice from heaven, Rev_18:5.” Cramer.