Isaia 34:4

4 Tutto l’esercito del cielo si dissolve; i cieli sono arrotolati come un libro, e tutto il loro esercito cade, come cade la foglia dalla vite, come cade il fogliame morto dal fico.

Isaia 34:4 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 34:4

And all the hosts of heaven shall be dissolved
"Pine away" ^F9, as with sickness, grow languid, become obscure, lose their light, and be turned into blood and darkness; this figure is used to express the horror of this calamity, as if the very heavens themselves, and the sun, and moon, and stars, were affected with it; see ( Isaiah 13:10 ) and the heavens shall be rolled gether as a scroll;
a book, or volume, which when rolled up, one letter of it could not be read; and it was the manner formerly of making and writing books in the form of a roll; hence the word volume; and here it signifies that there should be such a change in the heavens, as that not a star should be seen, much less the sun or moon; and may signify the utter removal and abolition of all dignities and offices, supreme and subordinate, civil and ecclesiastical, in the whole Roman jurisdiction; thus the destruction of Rome Pagan is described in ( Revelation 6:14 ) as the destruction of Rome Papal is here; from whence the language seems to be borrowed: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from
the vine, and as a falling [fig] from the fig tree;
that is, the stars should fall down: by whom may be meant persons in office, that made a considerable figure; who shall fall from their stations, in which they shone with much splendour and grandeur, as leaves fall from trees in autumn, particularly the vine; or as unripe and rotten figs fall from the fig tree when shaken by a violent wind; the same metaphor is used in ( Revelation 6:13 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 (wqmn) "tabescet", Vatablus; "centabescet", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; "contabescent", Cocceius, Gataker.

Isaia 34:4 In-Context

2 Poiché l’Eterno è indignato contro tutte le nazioni, è adirato contro tutti i loro eserciti; ei le vota allo sterminio, le dà in balìa alla strage.

3 I loro uccisi son gettati via, i loro cadaveri esalan fetore, e i monti si sciolgono nel loro sangue.

4 Tutto l’esercito del cielo si dissolve; i cieli sono arrotolati come un libro, e tutto il loro esercito cade, come cade la foglia dalla vite, come cade il fogliame morto dal fico.

5 La mia spada s’è inebriata nel cielo; ecco, essa sta per piombare su Edom, sul popolo che ho votato allo sterminio, per farne giustizia.

6 La spada dell’Eterno è piena di sangue, è coperta di grasso, di sangue d’agnelli e di capri, di grasso d’arnioni di montoni; poiché l’Eterno fa un sacrifizio a Botsra, e un gran macello nel paese d’Edom.