Jesaja 65:20

20 Es sollen nicht mehr dasein Kinder, die nur etliche Tage leben, oder Alte, die ihre Jahre nicht erfüllen; sondern die Knaben sollen hundert Jahre alt sterben und die Sünder hundert Jahre alt verflucht werden.

Jesaja 65:20 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 65:20

There shall be no more thence an infant of days
That is, there shall no more be carried out from thence, from Jerusalem, or any other place where the church of God is, to the grave, in order to be interred, an infant that has lived but a few days, a very common thing now; but, in the latter day, such instances will be rare, or rather there will be none at all; every child born will live to the age of man, and not be cut off by any premature death, either by any natural disease, or by famine, or sword, or any other calamity, which will now have no place: nor an old man that hath not filled his days;
who, though he may in some sense, or in comparison of others, be said to be old, yet has not arrived to the full term of man's life, threescore years and ten, or more; for it seems, by what follows, as if the term of human life will be lengthened in the latter day, and reach in common to a hundred years; so that as long life is always reckoned a temporal happiness, among the rest that shall be enjoyed, this will be one in the latter day; and which is to be understood not of the Millennium state, in which there will be no death, ( Revelation 21:4 ) , which yet will be in this, as the following words show; but of the state preceding that, even the spiritual reign of Christ: for the child shall die an hundred years old;
not that that shall be reckoned a child that shall die at a hundred years of age ^F8, the life of man being now, in these days of the Messiah, as long as they were before the flood, as the Jewish interpreters imagine; but the child that is now born, or he that is now a child, shall live to the age of a hundred years, and not die before: but lest this outward happiness should be trusted to, and a man should imagine that therefore he is in a happy state for eternity, being blessed with such a long life, it follows, "but" or though the sinner, being an hundred years old; shall be accursed;
for though this shall be common in this state to good men and bad men, to live a hundred years, yet their death will not be alike; the good man will be blessed, and enter into a happy state of joy and peace; but the wicked man, though he lives as long as the other in this world, shall be accursed at death, and to all eternity; see ( Ecclesiastes 8:12 Ecclesiastes 8:13 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F8 Vid. Gloss. in T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 91. 2.

Jesaja 65:20 In-Context

18 sondern sie werden sich ewiglich freuen und fröhlich sein über dem, was ich schaffe. Denn siehe, ich will Jerusalem schaffen zur Wonne und ihr Volk zur Freude,

19 und ich will fröhlich sein über Jerusalem und mich freuen über mein Volk; und soll nicht mehr darin gehört werden die Stimme des Weinens noch die Stimme des Klagens.

20 Es sollen nicht mehr dasein Kinder, die nur etliche Tage leben, oder Alte, die ihre Jahre nicht erfüllen; sondern die Knaben sollen hundert Jahre alt sterben und die Sünder hundert Jahre alt verflucht werden.

21 Sie werden Häuser bauen und bewohnen; sie werden Weinberge pflanzen und ihre Früchte essen.

22 Sie sollen nicht bauen, was ein andrer bewohne, und nicht pflanzen, was ein andrer esse. Denn die Tage meines Volke werden sein wie die Tage eines Baumes; und das Werk ihrer Hände wird alt werden bei meinen Auserwählten.