Commentary upon the Prophecy of Isaiah

The second part of the verse may be expounded two ways, because the verb Chaschak signifies To love, and sometimes To will: This sense agrees not amiss, It was thy pleasure to deliver my soul: but if nothing be supplied, the sense will still be perfect, O Lord, thou hast loved my soul when it was in the Sepulchre. It is known to all, that the Soul is taken for the life:¹ but the Prophet here extols the bounty of God, who vouchsafed to love Hezekias though he were half dead.

The second part of the verse may be expounded two waies, because the verb Chaschak signifies To loue, and sometimes To will: This sense agrees not amisse, It was thy pleasure to deliuer my soule: but if nothing be supplied, the sense will still be perfect, O Lord, thou hast loued my soule when it was in the Sepulcher. It is knowne to all, that the Soule is taken for the life:¹ but the Prophet here extols the bountie of God, who vouchsafed to loue Hezekias though he were halfe dead.

1. 1Soul taken for life.Soule taken for life.

¹In the next place he gives the reason of it, in bringing us to the fountain from whence this deliverance issued: for otherwise, one might imagine that he hath spoken of nothing hitherunto but of bodily health. But we may now see that he looked much higher, to wit, §1first unto his guiltiness before God, secondly §2to the free reconciliation. He confesseth in deed that he hath received his life anew, but yet he esteems his reconciliation with God more then a hundred thousand lives.²