2. Christ, (Calmet) Josias, (Grotius) or any whose cause is just, yet finds no protection from such corrupt magistrates. The sentiment of the passage is, that it is proof of great stupidity and guilt when people see the righteous die without concern. 2 For the godly who die shall rest in peace. Isa 57:1 (CWR) Good people die and no one considers why. without money and without price.. 2 f Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread,. This is the final chapter (the 9th) in Section B of Division VI of Isaiah's prophecy; and it is composed principally of a series of severe warnings to God's people (the Jews) that nothing but disaster awaits them because of their turning away from God, their unspeakable ungodliness, idolatry, and hypocritical wickedness. As men gather flowers, and candy them, and preserve them by them, so doth God his pious ones. The close of the Chapter contains one of the most sublime and consolatory representations of Jehovah, in the greatness and graciousness of his character, that can be conceived. Such was the guilt of Manasseh; so violent was the persecution which he excited against the just, that it is said of him that he ‹shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another‘ 2 Kings 22:16. [Note: Ibid, 3:399-400.]. People little consider what a loss the world sustains, when those die who might have averted the divine wrath. That is, they are gathered to their fathers by death. But no man considers it, or reflects that it is a token of approaching destruction, that God gathers them, and places them in safety from being distressed by prevailing afflictions. Read full chapter. that God is protecting them from the evil to come. In the midst of the excesses of the unfaithful watchmen (Isaiah 56:10, Isaiah 56:11, Isaiah 56:12), most of the few that are godly perish: partly by vexation at the prevailing ungodliness; partly by violent death in persecution: prophetical of the persecuting times of Manasseh, before God‘s judgments in causing the captivity in Babylon; and again those in the last age of the Church, before the final judgments on the apostasy (2 Kings 21:16; Matthew 23:29-35, Matthew 23:37; Revelation 11:17). No man; few or none of the people. ", John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible, George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. The critical allegations that began in the eighteenth century to the effect that the things condemned here pertained to the post-exilic period are ridiculous and unintelligent, because only the times of Manasseh exhibit the sacrifices of children to Molech, and the gross, sensuous worship of the Canaanite Baals, with their shameless fertility rites. Merciful; or, godly; the same whom he now called righteous, whose duty and practice it is to exercise both mercy or kindness, and justice. 1. no man takes it to heart. Yet we may with equal propriety take the phrase âmen of mercyâ in a passive sense, as meaning those whom the Lord has embraced by his mercy; for it is a phrase of frequent occurrence in Hebrew writings. A similar mode of speech is used by our Saxon ancestors to express death: he went out of sight; and he went away; and to fare forth, to die. It was a less evil for them to be removed by death - even by the painful death of persecution - than to be compelled to participate in these coming sorrows. Hebrew. The Septuagint, Ἄνδρες δίκαιοι Andres dikaioi - 'Just men.' That the righteous is taken away from the evil (to come) - Hebrew, from the face of the evil; i:e., both from the moral evil on every side (Isaiah 56:10-12), and from the evils about to come in punishment of the national sins, foreign invasion, etc. (Isaiah 57:1). (1) The righteous perisheth . The Hebrew for "perisheth," and "is taken away," expresses a violent death (Mic 7:2). And merciful men.] Their place … All this may be applied to the martyrs of Jesus in times of Popish persecution; or to the removal of good men by an ordinary death before those times came. In the midst of the excesses of the unfaithful watchmen (Isaiah 56:10-12), most of the few that are godly perish: partly by vexation at the prevailing ungodliness; partly by violent death in persecution: prophetic of the persecuting times of Manasseh, before God's judgments in causing the captivity in Babylon; and again those in the last age of the Church, before the final judgments on the apostasy (2 Kings 21:16; Matthew 23:29-35; Matthew 23:37; Revelation 11:7-11; Revelation 11:17). and he who has no money,. The just. The blessed death of the righteous not duly lamented by the Jews; who also commit idolatry, and trusted in man: they are threatened, Isaiah 57:1-12; Evangelical promises to the penitent, Isaiah 57:13-19. It is the first rapture. 118, 1); "they rest upon their beds," viz., … He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness. And no man layeth it to heart. 1 The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; the devout are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil. Isa 57:1-21. If, on the other hand, the meaning is “exult over,” the answer could be that, by venerating idols, they made light of YHWH. What does the Lord Jesus have to say about your condition in life? For this is what the high and exalted One says— he who lives forever, whose name is holy: “I live in a high and holy place, but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite. The peaceful death of the righteous few: The ungodliness of the many: A believing remnant shall survive the general judgments of the nation, and be restored by Him Who creates peace. The Targum is. But no one seems to care or wonder why. Layeth it to heart; is duly affected with this severe stroke and sad sign of Godâs displeasure. No one seems to understand that God is protecting them from the evil to come. Few people in the nation, however, understood this reason for the depletion of the righteous. The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; and mercifull men are taken away none considering that the righteous is taken away from the euill to come. Or it may be rendered, "the righteous man is lost" (b); not to himself, his death is a gain to him; but to the church, and to the world, which yet is not considered: and no man layeth it to heart; takes any notice of it, thinks at all about it, far from being concerned or grieved; instead of that, rather rejoice, and are pleased that they are rid of such persons; which will be the case when the witnesses are slain, Revelation 11:10. And he obtained it from the Lord. The wicked hate the secret rebuke which is furnished by a holy life, and they often feel a secret exultation when such people die. And yet this is not an invariable rule; for righteous men are frequently involved, along with the reprobate, in temporal punishments; but it is so frequent that it rarely happens otherwise. As was Methuselah a year before the flood; Jeroboam’s best son, before the downfall of his father’s family; [1 Kings 14:12-13] Josiah before the captivity and first destruction of Jerusalem; [2 Kings 22:20] James before the second; [Acts 12:2] Augustine a little before the sack of his city Hippo, by the Vandals. Hence we see that the Lord, at that time, gathered many good men, whose death portended some dreadful calamity, and yet that the Jews paid no regard to such forewarnings, and even proceeded to more daring lengths of wickedness; for they thought that all went well with them, when they were the survivors of many excellent men. Even if you don’t follow the lectionary these texts from Isaiah are still worth considering. The righteous; just and holy men, who are the pillars of the place and state in which they live; yea, as the Jews call them, the pillars of the world. Isa 57:1 (NLT) The righteous pass away; the godly often die before their time. (Haydock) --- Evil, by the wicked, or to prevent his fall, 4 Kings xii. Look, with me, at the following Scripture that shows that. a. An… If the pious die by persecution and others are not aroused, it shows that they acquiesce in it, or have no confidence in God, and no desire that his people should be preserved; if they die in the ordinary mode and the people are unaffected, it shows their stupidity. 2 Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie … or on his heart; whereas such providences should lead men to fear the Lord, and seek to him, and serve him, as it did David, Psalm 12:1. and merciful men are taken away; or "gathered"F3נאספים "colliguntur", V. L. Munster, Piscator, Cocceius; "congregantur", Pagninus. The idea here evidently is, that severe calamities were coming upon the nation. Isaiah 57:1, ESV : "The righteous man perishes, and no one lays it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one understands. These verses refer to the fact that from the times of Isaiah and afterward to the captivity, "Most of the few godly persons left, perished, partly through vexation at the prevailing ungodliness, partly by the horrible persecutions under Manasseh,"[3] of whom the Scriptures say, "Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem one end to another; besides his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin in doing that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah" (2 Kings 21:16). 2 For those who follow godly paths. But the wind will carry them all away, A breath will take them. from the evil—Hebrew, from the face of the evil, that is, both from the moral evil on every side (Isa 56:10-12), and from the evils about to come in punishment of the national sins, foreign invasions, &c. (Isa 56:9; 57:13). For some or all these reasons the righteous may be withdrawn from the world; and could we see those reasons as God does, nothing more would be necessary to induce us to acquiesce entirely in the justice of his dealings. God was about to give them up to foreign invasion (Isaiah 56:9 ff); and the true reason why the just were removed was, that they may not be subject to the divine wrath which should come upon the nation; they were not to be required to contemplate the painful state of things when an enemy should fire the cities, the palaces, and the temple, and cause the sacred services of religion to cease. Study Isaiah 53 using Matthew Henry’s Bible Commentary (concise) to better understand Scripture with full outline and verse meaning. That the righteous is taken away from the evil to come. It is, that the pious are often removed in order that they may not be exposed to evils which they would experience should they live. For some or all these reasons the righteous may be withdrawn from the world; and could we see those reasons as God does, nothing more would be necessary to induce us to acquiesce entirely in the justice of his dealings. But I thought it right to take special notice of this event, both because it happened lately, (106) and because in so distinguished a preacher of the Gospel and prophet of God it must be more clearly seen. Death I have come to understand is a vehicle to glory for a Christian. Isaiah continues his subject; for, after having shown how fearlessly hypocrites indulge in their luxuries, and with what impudence they despise the word of God, he likewise complains that they do not consider the works of God. The careless world disregards this. We are positively certain, therefore, that such postulations as those of Wardle that, "This chapter is an invective against the pro-Samaritan party,"[1] after the return from Babylon, are absolutely untenable and incorrect, being unsupported by any evidence whatever, and contrary to the known facts of history. 1.The righteous man hath perished. It frequently happens that God takes good men out of this world, when he intends to punish severely the iniquities of the ungodly; for the Lord, having a peculiar regard to his own people, takes compassion upon them, and, as it were, snatches them from the burning, that even survivors may perceive in it the wrath of God. The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth, that the righteous is taken away from the evil, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil. There is evidence (see the Introduction, Section 2), that Isaiah lived to his time, and it is probable that he himself ultimately fell a victim to the race of Manasseh. If the pious die by persecution and others are not aroused, it shows that they acquiesce in it, or have no confidence in God, and no desire that his people should be preserved; if they die in the ordinary mode and the people are unaffected, it shows their stupidity. The prophet finds comfort in the thought that their death was a deliverance from yet worse evils. Biblical Commentary Isaiah 5:1-7 EXEGESIS: THE CONTEXT: The prophet may have sung this song at the week-long harvest festival known as the Feast of Tabernacles, where his singing would have fit naturally into the festive atmosphere and would have caught the attention of … In our own times a remarkable instance of this was given in the death of Luther, who was snatched from the world a short time before that terrible calamity befell Germany, which he had foretold many years before, when he exclaimed loudly against that contempt of the Gospel, and that wickedness and licentiousness which everywhere prevailed. And merciful men - Margin, ‹Men of kindness,‘ or ‹godliness.‘ Lowth and Noyes render it, ‹Pious men.‘ The Septuagint, Ἄνδρες δίκαιοι Andres dikaioi - ‹Just men.‘ The Hebrew word denotes “mercy” or “kindness” (חסד chesed ). What begins as if it will be a “love-song” quickly develops into an allegory; and lest there … Continue reading "Commentary on Isaiah … Isaiah 57:15-21 I. 2 For those who follow godly paths. The First Readings for Advent, Year A, provide particularly rich visual gifts. the righteous is swept away before the evil; Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. But, since God, in many passages of Scripture, represents gentleness and kindness as a distinguishing mark of his children, this may be, as I have said, a definition of true righteousness. The Hebrew for "perisheth" (abad), and that for "is taken away" (asaph), expresses a violent death (Micah 7:2). For the righteous man is taken away from evil, To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, "The righteous is taken away from the evil to come ...", none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come. If by âmen of mercyâ be meant kind or tender-hearted men, this description ought to be carefully studied, by which the Prophet shows what is the true righteousness of the children of God; for hypocrites reckon this to be of no value. From the evil to come; from those dreadful calamities which are coming upon the nation. This doctrine is highly appropriate to every age. Lowth and Noyes render it, 'Pious men.' The Peaceful Death of the Righteous Few: the Ungodliness of the Many: a Believing Remnant Shall Survive the General Judgments of the Nation, and Be Restored by Him Who Creates Peace. And merciful men - Margin, 'Men of kindness,' or 'godliness.' I will declare your righteousness And your works, For they will not profit you. Being attached to the world, they likewise harden themselves by this pretense, that, by nothing else than a manifestation of Godâs favor towards them, while others die, they continue to be safe and sound. none considering—namely, what was the design of Providence in removing the godly. But it seems probable to me that the prophet designs to describe the state of stupidity which prevailed in his own time, and to urge as one proof of it, that the pious part of the nation was taken away by violent death, and that the nation was not affected by it. Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good,. There are very few places in Isaiah where Jesus Christ is not intended; and I am inclined to think that He is intended here, That Just One; and perhaps Stephen had this place in view, when he thus charged the Jews, "Ye denied τον ἁγιον και δικαιον, that Holy and Just One," Acts 3:14. 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