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Isaiah
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In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it; See also: 2 Kings 18:17Amos 1:81 Samuel 6:17at that time the LORD spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loosen the sackcloth from off your waist, and take your sandals from off your feet.” He did so, walking naked and barefoot. See also: 1 Samuel 19:24Matthew 3:4Micah 1:8The LORD said, “As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia, See also: Isaiah 8:18Isaiah 37:9Numbers 14:34so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. See also: Isaiah 19:4Jeremiah 13:26Jeremiah 13:22They will be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. See also: Isaiah 30:5Isaiah 30:3Jeremiah 9:23-24The inhabitants of this coast land will say in that day, ‘Behold, this is our expectation, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria. And we, how will we escape?’” See also: Hebrews 2:3Matthew 23:331 Thessalonians 5:3
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)5 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Isaiah 20:1
Ver. 1. Year. Eighteen after the preceding predictions. C. --- Sargon.
Sennacherib, (S. Jer.) Salmanasar, (Sanct.) or Assaradon, who intended to revenge Sennacherib, and sent his "collector of taxes" to take Azotus from Ezechias, and then to proceed farther. C. --- Psammitichus having obtained the sole dominion of Egypt, besieged Azotus for 29 years. Herod. ii. 157. Amos i. 8.
↑ 1Isaiah 20:2
Ver. 2. Sackcloth. The prophets lived in poverty. Zac. xiii. 4. Their persons were prophetic. It is not agreed whether Isaias went quite naked, or only without his upper garment. The former supposition would represent better the condition of slaves, (v. 4.) and is adopted by S. Jerom, &c.
C. --- People are said to be naked when they are almost so. 2 K. vi. Jo. xxi. H.
--- Yet "nothing is more honest than to obey God." S. Jer. W.
↑ 2Isaiah 20:3
Ver. 3. Years. Isaias went so long, or perhaps only three days undressed. Num.
xiv. 34. Ezec. iv.
5. Egypt and the Arabian Ethiopia were to be abandoned to the Assyrians, in or during three years.
↑ 3Isaiah 20:4
Ver. 4. Shame. Thus captives were generally exposed to sale. C. xlvii. 2. Nah.
iii. 5.
↑ 4Isaiah 20:5
Ver. 5. Glory. The alliance of these nations shall not avail the Jews, who are said to inhabit an island, because they neglected God's service no less than the most distant and abandoned nations.
C. --- The changes in empires must convince us to depend only on God, since Damascus and Egypt could not save the Hebrews, nor even themselves. W.
↑ 5License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses