Isaiah Chapter 8 verse 16 Holy Bible
Bind thou up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
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Let my teaching be kept secret: and my words be given to my disciples only.
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Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
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Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
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Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
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Bind up the testimony, Seal the law among My disciples.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 16. - Bind up the testimony, etc. The words are still those of Jehovah, addressed to his servant Isaiah. God commands that the prophecy shall be written in a roll, which is then to be carefully tied with a string and sealed, for future use. Seal the Law; rather, the instruction - the advice given in vers. 12-15 (comp. Daniel 12:4).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(16) Bind up the testimony . . .--The intensity of feeling in which the prophetic utterance of Isaiah 8:11-15 had its birth, is followed by a corresponding solemnity at its close. The words which had been so full of meaning for the prophet himself are to be impressed on the disciples of Jehovah (for it is He who speaks), i.e., on those who looked to Isaiah as their guide and counsellor. They are to be written on a parchment roll, as men wrote the sacred Book of the Law; the roll is to be sealed up, partly as a security against its being tampered with, till the time came for its disclosure (Daniel 12:4), partly as an attestation, like the seal of a king's letter (1Kings 21:8; Esther 3:12), that it was authentic. The two terms "testimony" (Deuteronomy 8:19; Psalm 50:7; Psalm 119:2) and "law" are here taken in their wider sense as applicable to any revelation of the mind of God. The "law of the Lord" of Psalm 19:7; Psalm 119:1 was wider and higher than the Pentateuchal code. . . .
