Commentary on Isaiah Volume 1 John Calvin
Chapter 6
CHAPTER 6
Isaiah Chapter 6:1-13 1. 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.
1. Anno mortis regis Usiae, vidi Dominum sedentem super solium excelsum et elevatum, cujus extrema replebant templum.
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.
2. Et seraphim stabant super ipsum: erant singulis sex alae; duabus operiebant faciem suam; duabus tegebant pedes suos; et duabus volabant.
3. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
3. Et clamabant alter alteri, dicentes, Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus, Iehova exercituum; plena est omnis terra gloriae ejus.
4. And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
4. Et commota sunt superliminaria postium a voce clamantis; et domus impleta est fumo.
5. Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.
5. Tunc dixi, Vae mihi, quia excisus sum (vel in silentium redactus); cum homo sim pollutis labiis, et in medio populi habitem polluta labia habentis; et tamen regem Iehovam exercituum viderunt oculi mei.
6. Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the alter: