48. Internal Meaning of Isaiah, Chapter 48

Exhortation to the church that is adulterating the goods and profaning the truths of the word, that they should desist. (2, 11)

1-2 It has been granted them that they may be the church, and that they may acknowledge the Lord, but in vain. (2)

3 They have turned away, and this has been declared to them, (2)

5 lest, haply, they should believe that they themselves are superior to others, (2)

6-7 and have not known this, (2)

8 and yet they have been such from the beginning. (2)

9-11 They are not yet to be destroyed, for His own reasons, and the time will yet be prolonged. (2)

12-13 Be it known to them that He is the God of heaven and earth (10, 16, 3)

14-17 He is the Lord who will come among those who are adulterating and profaning the Word, and will declare this to them: 1 (1)

18-19 if they had obeyed Him they would have had the goods and truths of the church in all abundance; (2)

20-21 if they would leave the adulterations and falsifications of the Word, and the pride of having dominion, they would be in everything of the church. (2, 10)

22 But the church is not with them, because they have turned away. (2)