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Isaiah 6 — Sermon Preparation

Below is a research summary for Isaiah 6, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.

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Hebrew words / lemmas
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classic sermon excerpts
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preachers & commentators

Isaiah 6 in the Hebrew

Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.

Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Count Glosses
רָאָה râʼâh H7200 5 see
קָדוֹשׁ qâdôwsh H6918 3 sacred, God
שָׂפָה sâphâh H8193 3 lip, language
שָׁמַע shâmaʻ H8085 4 hear, tell
מַצֶּבֶת matstsebeth H4678 2 stationary, stone
שָׁאָה shâʼâh H7582 2 rush, desolate
שָׂרָף sârâph H8314 2 burning, poisonous

How preachers through history handled this text

12 public-domain excerpts on Isaiah 6, from the church fathers to the Puritans.

Alexander MacLaren 4 Spurgeon 3 Ambrose 2 Matthew Henry 1 Abraham Kuyper 1 John Wesley 1

“VISION AND SERVICE 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. …”

— Alexander MacLaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture: Isaiah and Jeremiah, on Isaiah 6:1–13 (Public Domain)

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