NOTES for Isa 6:1-12
1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. |
2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. |
3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. |
4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. |
5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. |
6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: |
7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. |
8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. |
9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. |
10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed. |
11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, |
12 And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land. |
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Isaiah's prophecies constantly speak of what will become of the world without God. What will become of a world in which people do not accept and do not acknowledge God. "Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?" the Lord asks. This question expresses what the Lord wants to see in us. That He needs us. That He sends the prophet: a man whom He has cleansed from sin in order to call people to Himself.
And in Proverbs we read about the need for labor. Spiritual labor for deliverance from sins and vices. Thus in today's reading two of the greatest paths of a person's relationship with God come together: the constant call to repentance and to spiritual labor. To repentance before God and one's neighbor. Before the one with whom you quarrel and whom you envy, over whom you exalt yourself and whom you push around.
And the whole text of today's reading very much recalls the prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian, which we read during Lent and which strengthens our understanding of the main vices of the human heart, from which Judgment on the world flows.
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