Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 8:20

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20. To the law, c.—the revelation of God by His prophet ( :- ), to which he directs them to refer those who would advise necromancy. if they speak not . . . it is because — English Version understands "they" as the necromancers. But the Hebrew rendered "because" is not this but "who" and "if not," ought rather to be "shall they not"; or, truly they shall speak according to this word, who have no morning light (so the Hebrew, that is, prosperity after the night of sorrows) dawning on them [MAURER and G. V. SMITH]. They who are in the dark night of trial, without a dawn of hope, shall surely say so, Do not seek, as we did, to necromancy, but to the law," &c. The law perhaps includes here the law of Moses, which was the "Magna Charta" on which prophetism commented [KITTO]. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-21" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

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