Isaías 46:8

8 Acordaos de esto, y estad confiados; ponedlo en vuestro corazón, transgresores.

Isaías 46:8 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 46:8

Remember this
Or "these things", as the Syriac version, concerning the matter of which, and the manner in which idols are made; their impotency to move themselves, and their inability to help their votaries, and the difference between them and the true God: and show yourselves men;
and not brutes, as the makers and worshippers of images are, or show themselves as if they were; who unmanly themselves, and act contrary to the natural reason of mankind: or "be ye strong" F17; so the Targum and Jarchi; fortify yourselves against all temptations to idolatry, and against all the arguments and persuasions of idolaters; or "burn ye" F18 or "be ye inflamed", so Rabenu Hal and Joseph Kimchi; that is, blush and be ashamed at such sottishness and stupidity, as men when they are ashamed look as if their faces were inflamed; so the Vulgate Latin version renders it, "be ye confounded" F19; or the sense is, be fervent in spirit, be fired F20 with zeal for God and his glory, and with indignation against such gross idolatry: bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors;
of the law of God, in this instance of idolatry; meaning either the Babylonians, or rather the Jews, who had been drawn in by them to idolatrous practices; calling upon them to return to their senses; to use and exercise their reason; to recollect and reconsider things, and observe and repent of the folly and wickedness they had been guilty of.


FOOTNOTES:

F17 (wvvath) "roborat vos", Pagninus, Tigurine version; so Ben Melech interprets the word.
F18 Ardete, "comburite vos", some in Vatablus.
F19 "Confundamini", V. L. "et erubescite", Calvin.
F20 "Incendimini sive corripimini zelo", Vitringa.

Isaías 46:8 In-Context

6 Los que derrochan el oro de la bolsa y pesan la plata en la balanza pagan a un orfebre para que haga un dios de ello; se postran y lo adoran.
7 Lo levantan en hombros y lo llevan; lo colocan en su lugar y allí se está. No se mueve de su lugar. Aunque alguno clame a él, no responde, de su angustia no lo libra.
8 Acordaos de esto, y estad confiados; ponedlo en vuestro corazón, transgresores.
9 Acordaos de las cosas anteriores ya pasadas, porque yo soy Dios, y no hay otro; yo soy Dios, y no hay ninguno como yo,
10 que declaro el fin desde el principio y desde la antiguedad lo que no ha sido hecho. Yo digo: "Mi propósito será establecido, y todo lo que quiero realizaré."

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