Isaiah 28:26-29 For his God does instruct him to discretion, and does teach him.… More literally and with better significance, "And he chastiseth it with judgment; his God doth instruct him." This judgment is shown in two ways. (1) In the choice and adaptation of the mode of threshing. There were four modes in use among the Jews; first there was the wain, a very ponderous and formidable instrument brought out only for the heavier and harder kinds of fruits; then there was the cart, the wheels of which also were for the same purpose; then there was the horse or the ox, whose feet were employed to tread out the corn; and then there was the staff, an instrument corresponding with our flail. Well, says the prophet, fitches, the lighter kinds of seeds, are not threshed with a wain, nor is a cart wheel turned upon the cummin; upon these the farmer, using sound judgment, employs only a staff or flail. Bread corn requires a heavier threshing, and bread corn is therefore bruised. But(2) he does not go on threshing it forever, nor does he continue so long turning the wheel of his cart upon it, or crushing it with his horses, that it is broken into pieces and spoiled; in the measure of his threshing no less than in its mode does he exercise discretion; in the amount which he inflicts no less than in the form which he selects. "This also cometh forth from the Lord of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working." (R. H. Roberts, B. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.WEB: For his God instructs him in right judgment, and teaches him. |
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