Isaiah 6 (WK) - 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,{HR}That it will shoot again, and its sprout fail not,
⁸Though its root wax old in the earth,{HR}And its stump die in the dust:
⁹Through the scent of water it flourisheth,{HR}And putteth forth 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 my chosen shall inherit 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 be blessed; because thou hast obeyed 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: so, that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the head of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass. (Ezra 9:2)

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Mal. 2:15• ¹⁵And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously 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.
²Every branch in me not bearing fruit, he taketh it away; and every one that beareth fruit, he cleanseth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
³Already ye are clean, because 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 [is] the Christ as far as according to flesh, who is over all God blessed forever. Amen. (Rom. 9:5)

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Rom. 11:5,24• ⁵So then in the present time also there hath been a remnant according to election of grace;
²⁴For if thou hast been cut out of the naturally wild olive tree, and contrary to nature wert grafted into a good olive tree, how much more shall these that [are] natural 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 addressed the promises, and to his seed; he doth not say “and to seeds” as of many, but as of one “and to thy seed,” which is Christ.
¹⁷Now this I say: the covenant ratified beforehand by God, the law, which took place four hundred and thirty years after, doth not annul so as to make the promise void.
¹⁸For if the inheritance is of law, it is no more of promise; but to Abraham by promise God graciously gave [it].
¹⁹Why then the law? For the sake of transgressions it was added, until the seed came to whom the promise was made, being ordained by means of angels in a mediator's hand.
²⁸There is no Jew nor Greek, there is no bondservant nor freeman, there is no male and female; for all ye are one in Christ Jesus.
²⁹And if ye [be] Christ's, then are ye 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."

W. Kelly Translation

But yet in it [shall be] a tenth, and it shall return and be for consuming; as the terebinth and the oak, whose stock [remaineth] when cut down: the holy seed [shall be] the stocka thereof.

WK Translation Notes

Or trunk, this word is derived from a verbal root―to stand fast or establish―and thus in its primary sense means a pillar. Hence it can naturally express what sustains a tree when cut down. Some take it as the root, others as the trunk or stump, but the destruction seems to go farther than leaving the stump erect so that the idea of the Targum that it means the sap, or that part of the substance which contains the spring of life, seems agreeable enough to the context.