Comentário sobre Isaías 6:8

Whom shall I send to admonish Israel? I sent Amos, and they called him, ‘Pesilus,’ because he was tongue tied, [’Pesilus’ being the Greek word for tongue-tied.] He prophesied two years before the earthquake, and the Israelites would say, The Holy One, blessed be He, left over the whole world and caused His Shechinah to rest on this tongue-tied one, as is stated in Pesikta.

For us. He speaks now to the seraphim; therefore he says, for us (plural).¹³For us is, according to Ibn Ezra, equal to for myself and you, the Seraphim; by this interpretation he avoids referring the plural for us to God.

Here am I, send me. Since my lips are pure, I am fit to be the messenger, but I was not before. From these words I infer that this chapter contains Isaiah’s first prophecy.¹⁴He declares that he was before unfit for bearing the message of the Most Holy.