They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders; they are all corrupters: The bellows are burnt, the lead is consumed of the fire; the Founder melteth in vain; for the wicked are not plucked away: Reprobate silver shall men call them, ⟨p. 196⟩because the Lord hath rejected them. They are all grievous revolters,] i. e. as the Prophet Isaiah expounds it, 1ye revolt more and more; Heb. They increase revolt, walking with slanders; they do not only revolt, but slander those that reprove their revolting; They hate him that reproveth in the gate: 2they slander the Prophets, and their words; nay, God himself doth not escape the lash of their tongues: they say, 3The way of the Lord is not equal; when they should condemn their own ways, they censure Gods, The way of the Lord is not equal. They are brass and iron,] They would pass for silver and gold, a sincere and holy people, while they are a degenerate and hypocritical generation. They are all corrupters, 4] They have deeply corrupted themselves; they have corrupted all their doings; 5they have corrupted the Covenant of Levi, sc. the worship, the ordinances, the truths of God. The bellows are burnt in the fire, i. e. The Lungs of the Prophets, ⟨p. 197⟩which have preached unto them in the name of the Lord, rising up early, and lifting up their voices like trumpets, to tell Israel their transgressions, and the house of Jacob their sins, and stretching forth their hands unto them all the day long, they are spent. The Lead is consumed,] i. e. All the melting judgments and chastisements, which (as Lead is cast into the furnace to make it the hotter) God added to the Ministry of the Prophets, to make the Word more operative, they will do no good. All this while, The Founder melteth in vain] whether God the Master-Founder, or the Prophets, Gods Co-founders, or fellow-workmen, as the Apostle calls them; they all melt in vain: 6all their labour is lost; neither word, nor rod, neither judgments nor ordinances, can stir them; they refuse to receive correction, they will not be taught*. The wicked are not plucked away: They are the same that ever they were; the swearer is a swearer still, and the drunkard is a ⟨p. 198⟩drunkard still, and the unclean person is unclean still; 8The vile person will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the Lord:
They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders; they are all corrupters: The bellows are burnt, the lead is consumed of the fire; the Founder melteth in vain; for the wicked are not plucked away: Reprobate silver shall men call them, ⟨p. 196⟩because the Lord hath rejected them. They are all grievous revolters,] i. e. as the Prophet Isaiah expounds it, 1ye revolt more and more; Heb. They encrease revolt, walking with slanders; they do not onely revolt, but slander those that reprove their revolting; They hate him that reproveth in the gate: 2they slander the Prophets, and their words; nay, God himself doth not escape the lash of their tongues: they say, 3The way of the Lord is not equal; when they should condemn their own ways, they censure Gods, The way of the Lord is not equal. They are brass and iron,] They would pass for silver and gold, a sincere and holy people, while they are a degenerate and hypocritical generation. They are all corrupters, 4] They have deeply corrupted themselves; they have corrupted all their doings; 5they have corrupted the Covenant of Levi, sc. the worship, the ordinances, the truths of God. The bellows are burnt in the fire, i. e. The Lungs of the Prophets, ⟨p. 197⟩which have preach'd unto them in the name of the Lord, rising up early, and lifting up their voyces like trumpets, to tell Israel their transgressions, and the house of Jacob their sins, and stretching forth their hands unto them all the day long, they are spent. The Lead is consumed,] i. e. All the melting judgments and chastisements, which (as Lead is cast into the furnace to make it the hotter) God added to the Ministry of the Prophets, to make the Word more operative, they will do no good. All this while, The Founder melteth in vain] whether God the Master-Founder, or the Prophets, Gods Co-founders, or fellow-workmen, as the Apostle calls them; they all melt in vain: 6all their labor is lost; neither word, nor rod, neither judgments nor ordinances, can stir them; they refuse to receive correction, they will not be taught
- 1Isai. 1 5 [Greek or Hebrew] additis defectionem.Isai. 1 5 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 additis defectionem.
- 2Amos 5 10
- 3Ezek. 18
- 4Micah 9.9
- 5Zeph 3.7 Mal. 2.8.Z•ph 3.7 Mal. 2.8.
- 62 Cor. 6.1
- *Men will god the hearing, but are resolved on their own courses.Men wil god the hearing, but are resolved on their own courses.
- 8Isai. 32.6
