Isaiah 55:2-3 Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which satisfies not? listen diligently to me… 1. Everything that has life must have food. 2. Man has the nature and wants of an animal. He also has a higher nature that takes hold of truth and God. He has, therefore, to care for a double life. 3. The text means that we put much into one side of life, hoping vainly for an equivalent of happiness on the other. The soul must have other food. 4. For this want there is a kind of borderland provision in Church forms But religion cannot tarry in this borderland. 5. So we rise to the truth that the soups life is in God. (H. W. Thomas, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. |
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