Isaiah 6 (JND) - Bible Truth Library

teil-tree. The teil-tree is the linden or lime-tree, a species very common in Palestine; the leaf of which resembles that of the laurel, and its flower that of the olive.

But the original {ailah,} which our translators render the oak, (but here distinguished from {allon,} the oak,) and Bp. Lowth the {ilex,} in ch. 1:29, 30, probably denotes, as Celsius contends, the {terebinth.}

It is an evergreen of moderate size, but having the top and branches large in proportion to the trunk; leaves, like those of the olive, but green intermixed with red and purple; flowers, like those of the vine, growing in bunches, and purple; fruit, of a ruddy purple, the size of a juniper berry, hanging in clusters, very juicy, and containing a single seed of the size of a grape stone; wood, hard and fibrous, from which a resin distils; with an excresence scattered among the leaves, of the size of a chestnut, of a purple colour, variegated with green and white.substance.

or, stock, or stem.

Job 14:7‑9• ⁷For there is hope for a tree: if it be cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender branch will not cease;
⁸Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stock die in the ground,
⁹Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a young plant. (Job 14:7‑9)

so the holy.

Isa. 65:8‑9• ⁸Thus saith Jehovah: As the new wine is found in the cluster, and it is said, Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it; so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all.
⁹And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah a possessor of my mountains; and mine elect shall possess it, and my servants shall dwell there. (Isa. 65:8‑9)

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Gen. 22:18• ¹⁸and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth bless themselves, because thou hast hearkened to my voice. (Gen. 22:18)

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Ezra 9:2• ²for they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, and have mingled the holy seed with the peoples of the lands; and the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this unfaithfulness. (Ezra 9:2)

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Mal. 2:15• ¹⁵And did not one make them? and the remnant of the Spirit was his. And wherefore the one? He sought a seed of God. Take heed then to your spirit, and let none deal unfaithfully against the wife of his youth, (Mal. 2:15)

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John 15:1‑3• ¹I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
²As to every branch in me not bearing fruit, he takes it away; and as to every one bearing fruit, he purges it that it may bring forth more fruit.
³Ye are already clean by reason of the word which I have spoken to you. (John 15:1‑3)

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Rom. 9:5• ⁵whose are the fathers; and of whom, as according to flesh, is the Christ, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. (Rom. 9:5)

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Rom. 11:5,24• ⁵Thus, then, in the present time also there has been a remnant according to election of grace.
²⁴For if *thou* hast been cut out of the olive tree wild by nature, and, contrary to nature, hast been grafted into the good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who are according to nature be grafted into their own olive tree? (Rom. 11:5,24)

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Gal. 3:16‑19,28‑29• ¹⁶But to Abraham were the promises addressed, and to his seed: he does not say, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed; which is Christ.
¹⁷Now I say this, A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the law, which took place four hundred and thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.
¹⁸For if the inheritance be on the principle of law, it is no longer on the principle of promise; but God gave it in grace to Abraham by promise.
¹⁹Why then the law? It was added for the sake of transgressions, until the seed came to whom the promise was made, ordained through angels in the hand of a mediator.
²⁸There is no Jew nor Greek; there is no bondman nor freeman; there is no male and female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus:
²⁹but if *ye* are of Christ, then ye are Abraham's seed, heirs according to promise. (Gal. 3:16‑19,28‑29)

• The only gleam of hope as to themselves would be found in the fact that God would have His tenth in a holy seed: in other words, He would preserve for Himself a godly remnant. (“Isaiah 6” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

But a tenth part shall still be therein, and it shall return and be eateng; as the terebinth and as the oak whose trunk remaineth after the felling: the holy seed shall be the trunk thereof.

JND Translation Notes

Or "and it shall be eaten up again."