Isaías 65:20

20 »Los bebés ya no morirán a los pocos días de haber nacido,
ni los adultos morirán antes de haber tenido una vida plena.
Nunca más se considerará anciano a alguien que tenga cien años;
solamente los malditos morirán tan jóvenes.

Isaías 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.

Isaías 65:20 In-Context

18 Alégrense; regocíjense para siempre en mi creación.
¡Y miren! Yo crearé una Jerusalén que será un lugar de felicidad
y su pueblo será fuente de alegría.

19 Me gozaré por Jerusalén
y me deleitaré en mi pueblo.
Y el sonido de los llantos y los lamentos
jamás se oirá en ella.

20 »Los bebés ya no morirán a los pocos días de haber nacido,
ni los adultos morirán antes de haber tenido una vida plena.
Nunca más se considerará anciano a alguien que tenga cien años;
solamente los malditos morirán tan jóvenes.

21 En esos días, la gente habitará en las casas que construya
y comerá del fruto de sus propios viñedos.

22 A diferencia del pasado, los invasores no les quitarán sus casas
ni les confiscarán sus viñedos.
Pues mi pueblo vivirá tantos años como los árboles,
y mis escogidos tendrán tiempo para disfrutar de lo adquirido con su arduo trabajo.