פירוש על ישעיהו 54:7

ברגע For a moment. The preposition ב is here pleonastic as in בתחלה at the beginning בראשונה at first.¹⁶The Hebrew text has בראשון; but since this word has the meaning in the first month, it is to be emended into בראשנה, at first; comp. I. E. on 1:26.—The ב in ברגע may justly be considered as superfluous, since רגע is here used as a noun, and the accusative without the preposition ב would likewise express the duration of time. This is not the case with בתחלה, which without the preposition is a noun, the beginning; with the preposition it is an adverb meaning at first. Some say that the meaning of רגע is rebuke; comp. רוגע who rebuketh.¹⁷A. V., That divided. (51:15); their opinion is supported by the parallelism of the verse.¹⁸By the parallelism רגע is the opposite of רחמים mercy.