Isaiah 28:20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. This proverb of Isaiah about the growth of religious conception has had many applications. Again and again it has happened since Isaiah's time that the framework of theological theory formed by the intellect has become too narrow for the growing knowledge and spirit of man; and there has followed the discomfort, the strain, the struggle, the stretching or the dissolution of conventional beliefs, and out of them the reconstruction on a larger scale of a theology that somewhat inadequately expresses the actual revelation to man of the Unseen and the Divine. The foundations of religion are ever the same — the elementary force in the heart of man, the sense of weakness, of sin, of fear; the upward reaching of man to the unattainable God, and the blessed shining downwards of God into the heart of man. But the speculations, the imagery, the language of theology have varied with human knowledge, and are varying now before our eyes. (J. M. Wilson, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.WEB: For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap oneself in. |
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