1. Where . . . mothers divorcement —Zion is "the mother"; the Jews are the children; and God the Husband and Father ( Isaiah 54:5 ; Isaiah 62:5 ; Jeremiah 3:14 ). GESENIUS thinks that God means by the question to deny that He had given "a bill of divorcement" to her, as was often done on slight pretexts by a husband ( Deuteronomy 24:1 ), or that He had "sold" His and her "children," as a poor parent sometimes did ( Exodus 21:7 ; 2 Kings 4:1 ; Nehemiah 5:5 ) under pressure of his "creditors"; that it was they who sold themselves through their own sins. MAURER explains, " Show the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom . . . ; produce the creditors to whom ye have been sold; so it will be seen that it was not from any caprice of Mine, but through your own fault, your mother has been put away, and you sold" ( Isaiah 52:3 ). HORSLEY best explains (as the antithesis between "I" and "yourselves" shows, though LOWTH translates, "Ye are sold ") I have never given your mother a regular bill of divorcement; I have merely "put her away" for a time, and can, therefore, by right as her husband still take her back on her submission; I have not made you, the children, over to any "creditor" to satisfy a debt; I therefore still have the right of a father over you, and can take you back on repentance, though as rebellious children you have sold yourselves to sin and its penalty ( Isaiah 52:3- : ). bill . . . whom —rather, "the bill with which I have put her away" [MAURER]. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-2" class="com-number"
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