Teks -- Isaiah 63:18 (NET)

63:18 For a short time your special nation possessed a land, but then our adversaries knocked down your holy sanctuary.

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Wesley: Isa 63:18 - People

The people set apart for his servants.

Wesley: Isa 63:18 - A little while

Comparatively to the promise, which was for ever.

Wesley: Isa 63:18 - Sanctuary

The temple.

JFB: Isa 63:18 - people of . . . holiness

Israel dedicated as holy unto God (Isa 62:12; Deu 7:6).

JFB: Isa 63:18 - possessed

Namely, the Holy Land, or Thy "sanctuary," taken from the following clause, which is parallel to this (compare Isa 64:10-11; Psa 74:6-8).

JFB: Isa 63:18 - thy

An argument why God should help them; their cause is His cause.

Clarke: Isa 63:18

The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while "It is little that they have taken possession of thy holy mountain"- The difficulty of the construction in this place is acknowledged on all hands. Vitringa prefers that sense as the least exceptionable which our translation has expressed; in which however there seems to be a great defect; that is, the want of that in the speaker’ s view must have been the principal part of the proposition, the object of the verb, the land, or it, as our translators supply it, which surely ought to have been expressed, and not to have been left to be supplied by the reader. In a word, I believe there is some mistake in the text; and here the Septuagint help us out; they had in their copy הר har , mountain, instead of עם am , people, του ορους του ἁγιου σου, the mountain of thy Holy One. "Not only have our enemies taken possession of Mount Sion, and trodden down thy sanctuary; even far worse than this has befallen us; thou hast long since utterly cast us off, and dost not consider us as thy peculiar people."- L.

Calvin: Isa 63:18 - For a little time // Our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary

18.For a little time It is wonderful that the people should call it “a little time;” for fourteen hundred years had elapsed since the people began to possess that land. But we must take into account the promise by which he said that the seed of Abraham should have it as an everlasting inheritance; and therefore that was a short time, when compared with eternity. (Gen 17:8.) Believers, therefore, represent to God the shortness of that time; not that they accuse him of insincerity, but that he may remember the promise and covenant, and may have more regard to his own goodness than to the chastisements which they justly deserved. Thus the ancient Church complains that

“her strength was weakened in the journey, that her days were shortened, and prays that she may not be cut off in the middle of her course,” (Psa 102:23,)

that is, because the fullness of age depended on the coming of Christ.

Our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary This was a much heavier complaint, that wicked men had profaned the land which the Lord had consecrated to himself. Undoubtedly this was far more distressing to the people than the rest of their calamities, and justly; for we ought not to care so much about ourselves as about religion and the worship of God. And this is also the end of redemption, that there may be a people that praises the name of the Lord and worships him in a right manner.

TSK: Isa 63:18 - people // our

people : Isa 62:12; Exo 19:4-6; Deu 7:6, Deu 26:19; Dan 8:24; 1Pe 2:9

our : Isa 64:11, Isa 64:12; Psa 74:3-7; Lam 1:10, Lam 4:1; Mat 24:2; Rev 11:2

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Poole: Isa 63:18 - The people of thy holiness // But a little while // Have trodden down thy sanctuary

The people of thy holiness or, thy holy people, as being set apart for his servants; holiness being to be understood for a covenant separation from other people.

But a little while i.e.

1. Comparatively to the promise, which was for ever, though they had possessed it about one thousand four hundred years. Or,

2. It seeming to them so, as things, especially such as are desirable, seem when they are past, Job 9:25,26 Ps 90 4 . Or,

3. They enjoyed but small spaces of time in quietness, so they had small enjoyment of it. Or,

4. It may respect the temple, which stood but four hundred years.

Have trodden down thy sanctuary the temple, called the sanctuary from the holiness of it; this our adversaries the Babylonians have trodden down, 2Ch 36:19 ; and this also implies their ruining of their whole ecclesiastical policy.

Haydock: Isa 63:18 - Nothing // Sanctuary

Nothing; holding them in the greatest contempt. Epiphanes though he should make them easily change their religion. His persecution lasted only three years and a half. ---

Sanctuary. 1 Machabees i. 23, 49, 57., and iii. 45.

Gill: Isa 63:18 - The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while // our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary

The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while,.... Either the land of Canaan, which the Jews, the Lord's holy people, whom he had separated from others, possessed about fourteen hundred years, which was but a little while in comparison of "for ever", as was promised; or they enjoyed it but a little while in peace and quiet, being often disturbed by their neighbours; or else the sanctuary, the temple, as it is to be supplied from the next clause, which stood but little more than four hundred years:

our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary; the temple; the first temple was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar; and the second temple by the Romans; and Antiochus, and Pompey, and others, profaned it, by treading in it.