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**king Uzziah.** Contrast this leprous king with the glorious king of [Isaiah 6:5](../../../kjv/isaiah/6/5) .
**died.** In a separate house. This completes the contrast.
**I saw.** Hebrew ra'ah = to see clearly. As in [Isaiah 6:6](../../../kjv/isaiah/6/6) .

**it:** i.e. the throne. seraphims = burning ones. No Art. Celestial beings, named but unexplained. Name used of the serpents ([Numbers 21:6](../../../kjv/numbers/21/6) ) because of the burning effect produced by them, just as *nachash* was used of a snake because of its shining skin ([Numbers 21:9](../../../kjv/numbers/21/9) ), as well as of the shining one of [Genesis 3:1](../../../kjv/genesis/3/1) . See notes on [Genesis 3:1](../../../kjv/genesis/3/1) .[Numbers 21:6](../../../kjv/numbers/21/6) , [Numbers 21:9](../../../kjv/numbers/21/9) , and App-19 . Septuagint reads "and seraphs stood round about Him".

**Holy, holy, holy.** Figure of speech *Epizeuxis* for intense and solemn emphasis. Compare the threefold blessing of [Numbers 6:24-26](../../../kjv/numbers/6/24-26) and [Revelation 4:8](../../../kjv/revelation/4/8) , a threefold unity.

**Woe.** Figure of speech *Ecphonesis.* App-6 .
**undone** = dumb, or lost. The essence of true conviction is a concern for what I *am,* not for what I have *done* or *not done.*
**seen.** Compare [Job 42:5](../../../kjv/job/42/5) .
**King.** Contrast "king Uzziah", [Isaiah 6:1](../../../kjv/isaiah/6/1) .

**flew.** Compare "ran" ([Luke 15:20](../../../kjv/luke/15/20) ).
**the tongs.** Reference to Pent, ([Exodus 25:38](../../../kjv/exodus/25/38) ; [Exodus 25:37](../../../kjv/exodus/25/37) . [Exodus 25:23](../../../kjv/exodus/25/23) ("snuffers"). [Numbers 4:9](../../../kjv/numbers/4/9) ). App-92 .

**iniquity.** Hebrew. *'avah,* App-44 .
**purged** = covered. Hebrew. *kaphar* = to cover, and thus, here, atone. See note on [Exodus 29:33](../../../kjv/exodus/29/33) . Not the same word as in [Isaiah 1:25](../../../kjv/isaiah/1/25) ; [Isaiah 4:4](../../../kjv/isaiah/4/4) .

**voice.** See the Structure (p. 980). This is the voice from the Temple concerning the "scattering", corresponding with [Isaiah 40:3](../../../kjv/isaiah/40/3) , [Isaiah 40:6](../../../kjv/isaiah/40/6) , which is the voice from the wilderness concerning the "gathering".
**Whom shall I send?** This was not Isaiah's original commission to prophesy, but his special commission for *this* great dispensational prophecy. Chs. 1-5 form a general introduction to the whole book (see p. 930).
**Us.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Genesis 1:26](../../../kjv/genesis/1/26) ; [Genesis 3:22](../../../kjv/genesis/3/22) ; [Genesis 11:7](../../../kjv/genesis/11/7) ). App-92 .
**said I.** In edition 1611 this was "I said".

**Hear ye indeed.** Hebrew "a hearing, hear ye". Figure of speech *Polyptoton* ( App-6 ) for emphasis. See note on [Genesis 26:28](../../../kjv/genesis/26/28) .
**see ye indeed.** Hebrew "a seeing see ye". Figure of speech *Polyptoton,* as above.

**Make, &c.** = Declare or foretell that the heart of this People will be fat. Isaiah could do no more. A common Hebrew idiom. This prophecy is of the deepest import in Israel's history. Written down seven times ([Matthew 13:14](../../../kjv/matthew/13/14) .[Mark 4:12](../../../kjv/mark/4/12) .[Luke 8:10](../../../kjv/luke/8/10) . [John 12:40](../../../kjv/john/12/40) . [Acts 28:26](../../../kjv/acts/28/26) , [Acts 28:27](../../../kjv/acts/28/27) . [Romans 11:8](../../../kjv/romans/11/8) ). Solemnly quoted in three great dispensational crises: (1) By Christ ([Matthew 13:14](../../../kjv/matthew/13/14) ), as coming from Jehovah on the day a council was held "to destroy Him". (2) By Christ, as coming from Messiah in His glory ([John 12:40](../../../kjv/john/12/40) , [John 12:41](../../../kjv/john/12/41) ) after counsel taken to "put Him to death" ([John 11:53](../../../kjv/john/11/53) , and Compare Isa 12:37 ). (3) By Paul, as coming from the Holy Ghost when, after a whole day's conference, they "believed not" ([Acts 28:25-27](../../../kjv/acts/28/25-27) ).
**convert** = turn or return

**how long?** See the answer ([Romans 11:25](../../../kjv/romans/11/25) ).
**wasted** = desolate.
**without** = for want of. man. Hebrew. *adam.* App-14 .
**land** = ground, or soil. Hebrew. *adamah*
**desolate.** See note on [Isaiah 1:7](../../../kjv/isaiah/1/7) .

**the LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 .
**forsaking.** See note on [Isaiah 1:4](../../../kjv/isaiah/1/4) .

**But yet in it shall be a tenth, &c.** = Still, there is in it (the land) a tenth part; and it (the tenth part) shall again be swept away; yet, as with terebinth and oak, whose life remains in them when felled, the holy seed will be the life thereof. This is no "interpolation"; it is necessary to complete the Structure.
**shall be.** Supply [there is].
**teil tree** = terebinth.
**substance** = root-stock.
**is in them:** or will be in them. A special rending called *Sevir* ( App-34 ) reads "in it": i.e. in the land.
**cast their leaves** = are felled. The *Ellipsis,* here, is wrongly supplied.

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