Isaiah 50:1. Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away?
Sometimes, the headings to the chapters in our Bible give us the meaning of the passage. They are, of course, not inspired, and are merely put there by the translators but, sometimes, they are little comments upon the text. It is so in the heading of this chapter: - "Christ sheweth that the dereliction of the Jews is not to be imputed to him, by his ability to save, by his obedience in that work, and by his confidence in that assistance," so that the Lord Jesus here speaks to the Jewish Church. The great Redeemer, "the mighty One of Jacob," thus speaks to his chosen people Israel: "Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away?"
Isaiah 50:1. Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
It was sin that caused the alienation between Israel and her God, and it is sin that is the cause of all the estrangement from God in the world. A sinful man, so long as he continues to live in sin, cannot love a holy God.
Isaiah 50:1. Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away?
Sometimes, the headings to the chapters in our Bible give us the meaning of the passage. They are, of course, not inspired, and are merely put there by the translators but, sometimes, they are little comments upon the text. It is so in the heading of this chapter: - "Christ sheweth that the dereliction of the Jews is not to be imputed to him, by his ability to save, by his obedience in that work, and by his confidence in that assistance," so that the Lord Jesus here speaks to the Jewish Church. The great Redeemer, "the mighty One of Jacob," thus speaks to his chosen people Israel: "Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away?"
Isaiah 50:1. Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
It was sin that caused the alienation between Israel and her God, and it is sin that is the cause of all the estrangement from God in the world. A sinful man, so long as he continues to live in sin, cannot love a holy God.