Comentario sobre Isaías 52:10

has revealed Heb. חָשַׂף, has revealed.

Hath made bare His holy arm. He has shown His strength. It is a figure taken from the hero that slays with the strength of his arm.

אפסי The ends of. Some consider this word as hap. leg., its meaning being found from the context. According to others, it is to be compared with באפסו═באפס in his land (ver. 4); ואפסי and my land (47:8).¹¹The phrase אני ואפסי עוד is according to this explanation, to be translated I and my land shall remain for ever. A. V., I am, and none else beside me. According to I. E. I am, and none besides. To others the א is prosthetic; they compare, therefore, אפס with פיסת a handful (Ps. 72:16).¹²It is difficult to see the connection between פיסת handful and אפסי ends. The latter is perhaps according to this translation to be rendered like מְלׂאׇהּ the fulness of or the inhabitants of. I connect it with מי אפסים waters to the ankles (Ez. 47:3).¹³The meaning of אפס is according to this explanation, ankle extremity, and אפסי ארץ the extremities of the earth, or the ends of the earth. It is not in the least surprising that the text attributes to God hand, foot, heart, and mouth; the meaning of such figures is well known. He who speaks, as well as he who is addressed, is a human being; the idea is therefore clothed in such language as can be understood by man.¹⁴This observation is made here by I. E. as if he wanted to refute the opinion of those that try to explain here the arm of the Lord by Messiah.