--- title: "Bullinger" description: "Who . . . ? Figure of speech Erotesis. The prophet" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/isaiah/63" --- **Who . . . ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.* The prophet's question. App-6 . **This:** i.e. Messiah in the execution of His vengeance in judgment. **Edom** = red. Compare [Isaiah 34:5](../../../kjv/isaiah/34/5) . **Bozrah** = vintage. Compare [Isaiah 34:5](../../../kjv/isaiah/34/5) . **traveling** = bending forward, as in marching. **strength . . . mighty** = strength (for endurance). Hebrew. *koah.* Not referring to His death, which was in weakness. **red** = ' *adom* . Hence "Edom" ([Isaiah 63:1](../../../kjv/isaiah/63/1) ). **winefat** = winepress. Hebrew. *gath.* Not *yekeb,* a wine-vat. **winepress** = trough. Hebrew. *purah.* **the people** = peoples. **none** = not a man. Hebrew. *'ish* . App-14 . **blood.** Literally grape-juice, put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Subject), for life-blood. All this is in judgment, not redemption. Compare [Revelation 14:20](../../../kjv/revelation/14/20) ; [Revelation 19:11-21](../../../kjv/revelation/19/11-21) . **shall be sprinkled** = will spurt. **day . . . year.** Compare [Isaiah 61:2](../../../kjv/isaiah/61/2) . **the year of My redeemed.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 32:35](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/35) ). Compare [Isaiah 61:2](../../../kjv/isaiah/61/2) . **redeemed** = redeemed as by a kinsman ([Exodus 6:6](../../../kjv/exodus/6/6) ). **Mine own arm.** Compare [Isaiah 59:16](../../../kjv/isaiah/59/16) . **salvation** = victory. **fury** = indignation. Some codices, with four early printed editions, read "righteousness". Compare [Isaiah 59:18](../../../kjv/isaiah/59/18) . **make them drunk in.** Some codices, with one early printed edition, and Aramaean, read "brake them in pieces with". **strength** = life-blood, as in [Isaiah 63:3](../../../kjv/isaiah/63/3) . **the LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 . **house of Israel.** See note on [Isaiah 5:7](../../../kjv/isaiah/5/7) . **children** = sons. **lie** = deal falsely. **In all their affliction He was afflicted.** Hebrew text reads, "In all their adversity [He was] no adversary". But some codices, with two early printed editions, read as text of Authorized Version. **the Angel of His presence.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Exodus 14:19](../../../kjv/exodus/14/19) ; [Exodus 23:20](../../../kjv/exodus/23/20) , [Exodus 23:21](../../../kjv/exodus/23/21) ; [Exodus 33:14](../../../kjv/exodus/33/14) ). App-92 . **redeemed them.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Exodus 15:13](../../../kjv/exodus/15/13) ). App-92 . **bare them.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Exodus 19:4](../../../kjv/exodus/19/4) .[Deuteronomy 1:31](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/1/31) ; [Deuteronomy 32:18](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/18) ). Compare [Isaiah 46:3](../../../kjv/isaiah/46/3) , [Isaiah 46:4](../../../kjv/isaiah/46/4) .[Acts 13:18](../../../kjv/acts/13/18) . App-92 . **But they rebelled.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Exodus 15:24](../../../kjv/exodus/15/24) .[Numbers 14:11](../../../kjv/numbers/14/11) , [Numbers 14:34](../../../kjv/numbers/14/34) ). App-92 . **holy.** See note on [Exodus 3:6](../../../kjv/exodus/3/6) . **Spirit.** Hebrew. *ruach.* App-9 . **and He fought** = and He Himself fought. Some codices, with three early printed editions, read this "and" in the text. **shepherd.** Many codices, with five early printed editions (one Rabbinic, 1517), and Vulgate, read "shepherds". Referring either to Moses, Aaron, and Joshua; or, the plural of Majesty, referring to Jehovah their Shepherd. Some codices, with four early printed editions, read "shepherd" (singular) **put His holy Spirit, &c.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Numbers 11:17](../../../kjv/numbers/11/17) ). Compare [Exodus 14:31](../../../kjv/exodus/14/31) ; [Exodus 32:11](../../../kjv/exodus/32/11) , [Exodus 32:12](../../../kjv/exodus/32/12) .[Numbers 14:13](../../../kjv/numbers/14/13) , [Numbers 14:14](../../../kjv/numbers/14/14) . App-92 . **arm.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Exodus 15:16](../../../kjv/exodus/15/16) ). App-92 . **dividing the water.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Exodus 14:21](../../../kjv/exodus/14/21) , the same word). **everlasting name.** See note on [Isaiah 44:7](../../../kjv/isaiah/44/7) . **As a beast goeth down** = as the cattle go down. Referring to the settlement of Israel in Canaan. **habitation . . . Thy, &c.** See note on "courts" ([Isaiah 62:9](../../../kjv/isaiah/62/9) ). **strength** = mighty deeds. **sounding** = yearning. Figure of speech *Anthropopatheia.* App-6 . **Thou art our Father.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 32:6](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/6) ). **Father.** A rare word in this connection. Compare [Isaiah 64:8](../../../kjv/isaiah/64/8) . **Redeemer.** See note on [Isaiah 60:16](../../../kjv/isaiah/60/16) . **made us** = suffered us. **hardened** = let us harden. **Return.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Numbers 10:36](../../../kjv/numbers/10/36) ). App-92 . **The People of Thy holiness** = Thy holy People. Figure of speech *Enallage* . See note on [Exodus 3:5](../../../kjv/exodus/3/5) . Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 7:6](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/7/6) ; [Deuteronomy 26:19](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/26/19) ). **We are [Thine].** There is no word for "Thine" in Hebrew text. The Hebrew accent (disjunctive) leaves a solemn hiatus between the two clauses; as though, what Israel had become could not be expressed by words: "We are come to this Thou never barest rule over them"; implying an *Ellipsis* , to be supplied thus: "We are become [as they]". **they were not called by Thy name** = Thy name was not called upon them. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com","name":"Real Bible Believers","description":"RBB","publisher":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/search?q={search_term_string}","query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/isaiah/63#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/images/missing.jpg","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/images/missing.jpg","width":640,"height":370,"caption":"Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 63"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/isaiah/63#webpage","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/isaiah/63","name":"Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 63","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/isaiah/63#primaryimage"},"datePublished":null,"dateModified":null,"author":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"description":"Who . . . ? 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