Isaia 57:17

17 Io sono stato adirato per l’iniquità della sua cupidigia, e l’ho percosso; io mi son nascosto, e sono stato indegnato; ma pur quel ribello è andato per la via del suo cuore.

Isaia 57:17 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 57:17

For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote
him,
&c.] Not the greedy watchmen of the church of Rome, ( Isaiah 56:10 Isaiah 56:11 ) , but teachers and preachers in the reformed churches, who mind their own things, and not the things of Christ; seek after good benefices and livings, temporalities and pluralities, and to be lord bishops; taking the oversight of the flock for filthy lucre sake; which may easily be observed to be the predominant sin of the preachers and professors of the reformed churches; for which God has a controversy with them, and, resenting it, has smote and rebuked them in a providential way; and has threatened them, as he did the church at Sardis, the emblem of the reformed churches, that he will come upon them as a thief, ( Revelation 3:4 ) . I hid me, and was wroth:
showed his displeasure by departing from them; and how much God has withdrawn his presence, and caused his spirit to depart from the churches of the Reformation, is too notorious: and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart;
took no notice of the reproofs and corrections of God; was unconcerned at his absence; not at all affected with his departure, and the withdrawings of his Spirit; these had no effect to cause a reformation, as is now too visibly the case; the same evil is pursued with equal eagerness; this is a way the heart of man is set upon, and they do not care to be turned out of it; and are like froward peevish children under the rod, receive no correction by it.

Isaia 57:17 In-Context

15 Perciocchè, così ha detto l’Alto, e l’Eccelso, che abita l’eternità, e il cui Nome è il Santo: Io abito in luogo alto, e santo, e col contrito, ed umile di spirito; per vivificar lo spirito degli umili, e per vivificare il cuor de’ contriti.

16 Conciossiachè io non contenda in perpetuo, e non mi adiri in eterno; perciocchè altrimenti ogni spirito, e le anime che io ho fatte, verrebber meno per la mia presenza.

17 Io sono stato adirato per l’iniquità della sua cupidigia, e l’ho percosso; io mi son nascosto, e sono stato indegnato; ma pur quel ribello è andato per la via del suo cuore.

18 Io ho vedute le sue vie, e pur lo guarirò, e lo ricondurrò, e restituirò consolazioni a lui, ed a quelli d’infra lui che fanno cordoglio.

19 Io creo ciò ch’è proferito con le labbra; pace, pace al lontano, ed al vincino, dice il Signore; ed io lo guarirò.