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title: "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible -  Isaiah 32"
description: "CHAPTER 32   :-. MESSIAH"
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CHAPTER 32

. MESSIAH'S
KINGDOM; DESOLATIONS,
TO BE SUCCEEDED
BY LASTING PEACE,
THE SPIRIT HAVING
BEEN POURED
OUT.
The times of purity and happiness
which shall follow the defeat of the enemies of Jehovah's people (). The period of wrath before that happy state (). The assurance of the final prosperity of the Church is
repeated ([Isaiah 32:15-20](../../../kjv/isaiah/32/15-20)).

**1. king**—not Hezekiah, who was
already on the throne, whereas a *future* time is contemplated.
If he be meant at all, it can only be as a type of Messiah the King,
to whom alone the language is fully applicable ([Hosea 3:5](../../../kjv/hosea/3/5);
[Zechariah 9:9](../../../kjv/zechariah/9/9); see on [Zechariah 9:9](../../../kjv/zechariah/9/9)). The kingdom shall be transferred from the world kings,
who have exercised their power *against* God, instead of *for*
God, to the rightful King of kings ([Ezekiel 21:27](../../../kjv/ezekiel/21/27);
[Daniel 7:13](../../../kjv/daniel/7/13); [Daniel 7:14](../../../kjv/daniel/7/14)).
**princes**—subordinate;
referring to all in authority under Christ in the coming kingdom on
earth, for example, the apostles, c. ([Luke 22:30](../../../kjv/luke/22/30)
[1 Corinthians 6:2](../../../kjv/1-corinthians/6/2); [2 Timothy 2:12](../../../kjv/2-timothy/2/12);
[Revelation 2:26](../../../kjv/revelation/2/26); [Revelation 2:27](../../../kjv/revelation/2/27);
[Revelation 3:21](../../../kjv/revelation/3/21)).

**2. a man**—rather, *the man*
Christ [LOWTH]; it is as
"the Son of man" He is to reign, as it was as Son of man He
suffered ([Matthew 26:64](../../../kjv/matthew/26/64); [John 5:27](../../../kjv/john/5/27);
[John 19:5](../../../kjv/john/19/5)). Not as MAURER
explains, "*every* one of the princes shall be," c.
**rivers**—as refreshing as
water and the cool shade are to the heated traveller ([Isaiah 35:6](../../../kjv/isaiah/35/6)
[Isaiah 35:7](../../../kjv/isaiah/35/7); [Isaiah 41:18](../../../kjv/isaiah/41/18)).

**3. them that see**—the seers or
prophets.
**them that hear**—the
people under instruction ([Isaiah 35:5](../../../kjv/isaiah/35/5);
[Isaiah 35:6](../../../kjv/isaiah/35/6)).

**4. rash**—rather, "the
hasty"; contrast "shall not make haste" (); the reckless who will not take time to weigh religious
truth aright. Or else, the well-instructed [HORSLEY].
**stammers**—those who
speak confusedly on divine things (compare [Exodus 4:10-12](../../../kjv/exodus/4/10-12);
[Jeremiah 1:6](../../../kjv/jeremiah/1/6); [Matthew 10:19](../../../kjv/matthew/10/19);
[Matthew 10:20](../../../kjv/matthew/10/20)). Or, rather, those
drunken *scorners* who in stammering style imitated Isaiah's
warnings to mock them [MAURER]
([Isaiah 28:7-11](../../../kjv/isaiah/28/7-11); [Isaiah 28:13](../../../kjv/isaiah/28/13);
[Isaiah 28:14](../../../kjv/isaiah/28/14); [Isaiah 28:22](../../../kjv/isaiah/28/22);
[Isaiah 29:20](../../../kjv/isaiah/29/20)); in this view,
translate, "speak *uprightly*" (agreeably to the
divine law); not as *English Version,* referring to the
distinctness of articulation, "plainly."

**5. vile**—rather, "fool"
[LOWTH]; that is, ungodly
([Psalms 14:1](../../../kjv/psalms/14/1); [Psalms 74:18](../../../kjv/psalms/74/18)).
**liberal**—rather,
"noble-minded."
**churl**—rather,
"fraudulent" [GESENIUS].
**bountiful**—religiously.
The atheistic churl, who envies the believer his hope "full of
immortality," shall no longer be held as a patriot struggling
for the emancipation of mankind from superstition [HORSLEY].

**6. vile . . . villainy**—rather,
"the (irreligious) fool . . . (his) folly."
**will speak**—rather,
"present"; for (so far is the "fool" from
deserving the epithet "noble-minded") the fool "speaketh"
folly and "worketh," &c.
**hypocrisy**—rather,
"profligacy" [HORSLEY].
**error**—impiety, perverse
arguments.
**hungry**—spiritually ().

**7. churl**—"the
fraudulent"; this verse refers to the last clause of ; as [Isaiah 32:6](../../../kjv/isaiah/32/6) referred
to its first clause.
**speaketh right**—pleadeth
a just cause ([Isaiah 29:21](../../../kjv/isaiah/29/21));
spiritually, "the poor man's cause" is the divine doctrine,
his rule of faith and practice.

**8. liberal**—rather,
"noble-minded."
**stand**—shall be approved
under the government of the righteous King.

**9-20.** Address to the women of
Jerusalem who troubled themselves little about the political signs of
the times, but lived a life of self-indulgence (); the failure of food through the devastations of the
enemy is here foretold, being what was most likely to affect them as
mothers of families, heretofore accustomed to every luxury. VITRINGA
understands "women—daughters" as the cities and villages
of Judea ([Ezekiel 16:1-63](../../../kjv/ezekiel/16/1-63)).
See [Amos 6:1](../../../kjv/amos/6/1).

**10. Many days and years**—rather,
"In little more than a year" [MAURER];
literally, "days upon a year" (so ).
**vintage shall fail**—through
the arrival of the Assyrian invader. As the wheat harvest is omitted,
Isaiah must look for the invasion in the summer or autumn of 714
B.C., when the wheat would
have been secured already, and the later fruit "gathering,"
and vintage would be still in danger.

**11. strip you**—of your gay
clothing. (See [Isaiah 2:19](../../../kjv/isaiah/2/19); [Isaiah 2:21](../../../kjv/isaiah/2/21)).

**12. lament for . . . teats**—rather,
shall smite on their breasts in lamentation "for thy pleasant
fields" ([Nahum 2:7](../../../kjv/nahum/2/7)) [MAURER].
"Teats" in *English Version* is used for fertile
lands, which, like *breasts,* nourish life. The transition from
"ye" to "they" ([Isaiah 32:11](../../../kjv/isaiah/32/11);
[Isaiah 32:12](../../../kjv/isaiah/32/12)) is frequent.

**13.** ([Isaiah 5:6](../../../kjv/isaiah/5/6);
[Isaiah 7:23](../../../kjv/isaiah/7/23)).
**houses of joy**—pleasure-houses
outside of Jerusalem, not Jerusalem itself, but other cities
destroyed by Sennacherib in his march ([Isaiah 7:23](../../../kjv/isaiah/7/23)). However, the prophecy, in its full accomplishment,
refers to the *utter* desolation of Judea and its *capital*
by Rome, and subsequently, previous to the second coming of the King
([Psalms 118:26](../../../kjv/psalms/118/26); [Luke 13:35](../../../kjv/luke/13/35);
[Luke 19:38](../../../kjv/luke/19/38)); "the joyous
city" is in this view, Jerusalem ([Luke 19:38](../../../kjv/luke/19/38)).

**14. palaces**—most applicable to
Jerusalem (see on [Isaiah 32:3](../../../kjv/isaiah/32/3)).
**multitude . . . left**—the
noisy din of the city, that is, the city with its noisy multitude
shall lie forsaken [MAURER].
**forts**—rather, "Ophel"
(that is, the mound), the term applied specially to the declivity on
the east of Zion, surrounded with its own wall ([2 Chronicles 27:3](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/27/3);
[2 Chronicles 33:14](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/33/14); [2 Kings 5:24](../../../kjv/2-kings/5/24)),
and furnished with "towers" (or watchtowers), perhaps
referred to here ([Nehemiah 3:26](../../../kjv/nehemiah/3/26);
[Nehemiah 3:27](../../../kjv/nehemiah/3/27)).
**for ever**—limited by
thee, "until," &c., [Nehemiah 3:27](../../../kjv/nehemiah/3/27), *for a long time.*

**15.** This can only partially
apply to the spiritual revival in Hezekiah's time; its full
accomplishment belongs to the Christian dispensation, first at
Pentecost ([Joel 2:28](../../../kjv/joel/2/28); [Acts 2:17](../../../kjv/acts/2/17)),
perfectly in coming times ([Psalms 104:30](../../../kjv/psalms/104/30);
[Ezekiel 36:26](../../../kjv/ezekiel/36/26); [Ezekiel 39:29](../../../kjv/ezekiel/39/29);
[Zechariah 12:10](../../../kjv/zechariah/12/10)), when the Spirit shall
be poured on Israel, and through it on the Gentiles ([Zechariah 12:10](../../../kjv/zechariah/12/10)).
**wilderness . . . fruitful
field . . . forest**—when Judea, so long waste, shall be populous
and fruitful, and the land of the enemies of God shall be desolate.
Or, "the field, now fruitful, shall be but as a barren forest in
comparison with what it shall be then" ([Zechariah 12:10](../../../kjv/zechariah/12/10)). The barren shall become fruitful by regeneration; those
already regenerate shall bring forth fruits in such abundance that
their former life shall seem but as a wilderness where no fruits
were.

**16. judgment**—justice.
**wilderness**—then
reclaimed.
**fruitful field**—then
become more fruitful ([Isaiah 32:15](../../../kjv/isaiah/32/15));
thus "wilderness" and "fruitful field" include
the *whole* land of Judea.

**17. work**—the effect ([Proverbs 14:34](../../../kjv/proverbs/14/34);
[James 3:18](../../../kjv/james/3/18)).
**peace**—internal and
external.

**18. sure . . . quiet**—free from
fear of invasion.

**19.** Literally, "But it
shall hail with coming down of the forest, and in lowness shall the
city (Nineveh) be brought low; that is, humbled." The "hail"
is Jehovah's wrathful visitation ([Isaiah 30:30](../../../kjv/isaiah/30/30);
[Isaiah 28:2](../../../kjv/isaiah/28/2); [Isaiah 28:17](../../../kjv/isaiah/28/17)).
The "forest" is the Assyrian host, dense as the trees of a
forest ([Isaiah 10:18](../../../kjv/isaiah/10/18); [Isaiah 10:19](../../../kjv/isaiah/10/19);
[Isaiah 10:33](../../../kjv/isaiah/10/33); [Isaiah 10:34](../../../kjv/isaiah/10/34);
[Zechariah 11:2](../../../kjv/zechariah/11/2)).

**20.** While the enemy shall be
brought "low," the Jews shall cultivate their land in
undisturbed prosperity.
**all waters**—well-watered
places ([Isaiah 30:25](../../../kjv/isaiah/30/25)). The *Hebrew*
translation, "beside," ought rather to be translated,
"upon" ([Ecclesiastes 11:1](../../../kjv/ecclesiastes/11/1)),
where the meaning is, "Cast thy seed upon the waters when the
river overflows its banks; the seed will sink into the mud and will
spring up when the waters subside, and you will find it after many
days in a rich harvest." Before sowing, they send oxen, c., into
the water to tread the ground for sowing. CASTALIO
thinks there is an allusion to the Mosaic precept, not to plough with
an ox and ass together, mystically implying that the Jew was to have
no intercourse with Gentiles the Gospel abolishes this distinction
([Colossians 3:11](../../../kjv/colossians/3/11)); thus the sense here
is, Blessed are ye that sow the gospel seed without distinction of
race in the teachers or the taught. But there is no need of supposing
that the ox and ass here are *yoked together;* they are probably
"sent forth" separately, as in [Colossians 3:11](../../../kjv/colossians/3/11).

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