Isaiah 3:23
23 The glasses, [gillayown] and the
fine linen, [cadiyn] and the hoods, [tsaniyph] and the vails. [radiyd]KJV-Interlinear
23 hand
mirrors, undergarments, turbans, and veils. NASB
Glasses, ‘gillayown,’
means to make apparent, to reveal, a mirror or reflection. This can apply to a
hand mirror which is used to correct or to check ones appearance. It can also apply to the image of fine
clothing, a shining, or glistening so as to draw attention with bright colors
or even reflective material.
Fine linen, is just
that. These are fine clothing made from
the best of the best of materials, be it silk or some other linen of high
quality, and especially the clothing that is worn underneath the outer
clothing, and worn next to the skin or directly in contact with the skin of the
individual. This material provides a
comfort both physically and psychologically.
Turbans are hats or
hoods.
Veils, refer to scarves
or clothing that is worn about the head and neck to protect or to hide or to
conceal the persons head and face.
Throughout this chapter,
Isaiah has shown that evil people turn to things that enhance the outward
appearance of themselves, to other people.
The inward or the soul or the actual person is virtually ignored.
And yet people will
ignore truth and the quality and nature of the content of their soul and trade
that away for the quality and content of things, or things as they perceive
their quality. Emphasis is placed on things
that are external to the person, rather than on the substance of the
individual.
Self-perception is not
limited to clothing and jewelry, but also is reflected in ones work or career
or abilities or status in society. And,
inevitably your self-perception comes down to comparing oneself to others, meaning
that you are better than they, in a variety of ways.
In reality you are made
up of several things, namely dust, a soul, imputed human life into that soul, a
human spirit (if you are a believer) with eternal life imputed into that
spirit, and then information. Information
is what you have learned throughout your life from experience, from academics
and so forth.
And, if you really think
about it, none of these things originated from you. You did not form yourself. You did not create yourself, and you did not
originate any information that you have perceived. Even your volition that enables you to do or
not do, to learn of not learn, to choose or to not choose, did not come from
you.
So, people really do not
have any basis for boasting.
In life there is truth,
which simply means the correct matching up of facts with reality.
And then there are the
lies of life, which is the misapplication of facts to reality. That is where the many philosophies and
theories and religions come into play.
They all create an obscure and ambiguous and invented view of life.
The ability to perceive
truth requires the mechanism that allows the accurate perception of truth, and
that mechanism is found in the spiritual life or the spiritual apparatus that,
again, only God provides, not you. That
apparatus is found in salvation first, for that enables the spiritual apparatus
within you, and then the fellowship sphere, which is obtained by means of
confession, and that makes the spiritual apparatus operational and functional.
To this you need only add your positive volition and desire to study and learn,
and that leads to growth and eventually to the production of ones life. A very
simple process.
And yet people will
choose the lies or misinformation over truth.
And the result means disaster for ones life. And that is what is covered in the last three
verses of this chapter.
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