(Section 5) Lucifer's Exaltation Series

Hades (the Amenthes of Egypt), the unseen abode of the departed; some of its tenants, once mighty monarchs, are represented by a bold personification as rising from their seats in astonishment at the descent among them of the humbled king of Babylon. This proves, in opposition to WARBURTON [The Divine

Legation], that the belief existed among the Jews that there was a Sheol or Hades, in which the "Rephaim" or manes of the departed abode.

9. moved--put into agitation. [waken, arouse, incite]

for thee--that is, "at thee"; towards thee; explained by "to meet thee at thy coming" [MAURER].

chief ones--literally, "goats"; so rams, leaders of the flock; princes ( Zec 10:3). The idea of wickedness on a gigantic scale is included ( Eze 34:17 Mat 25:32, 33 ). MAGEE derives "Rephaim" (English Version, "the dead") from a Hebrew root, "to resolve into first elements"; so "the deceased"

( Isa 26:14 ) "ghosts" ( Pro 21:16 ). These being magnified by the imagination of the living into gigantic stature, gave their name to giants in general ( Gen 6:4 14:5 Eze 32:18, 21 ). "Rephaim," translated in the Septuagint, "giants" (compare see on JF & B for Job 26:5, 6). Thence, as the giant Rephaim of Canaan were notorious even in that guilty land, enormous wickedness became connected with the term. So the Rephaim came to be the wicked spirits in Gehenna, the lower of the two portions into which Sheol is divided.

Isa 14:10 “All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?”

10. They taunt him and derive from his calamity consolation under their own (Eze 31:16 ).

weak--as a shade bereft of blood and life. Rephaim, "the dead," may come from a Hebrew root, meaning similarly "feeble," "powerless." The speech of the departed closes with Isa 14:11 .

Isa 14:11 “Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, [and] the noise of thy viols [harp, lute, guitar, musical instrument]: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.”

01347 ga'own {gaw-ohn'} from 01342; TWOT - 299e; n m

AV - pride 20, excellency 10, majesty 7, pomp 5, swelling 3, arrogancy 2, excellent 1, proud 1; 49

1) exaltation, majesty, pride

1a) majesty, exaltation, excellence

1a1) of nations

1a2) of God

1a3) of the Jordan

1b) pride, arrogance (bad sense)

11. "Pomp" and music, the accompaniment of Babylon's former feastings (Isa 5:12 24:8 ), give place to the corruption and the stillness of the grave ( Eze 32:27 ).

worm--that is bred in putridity.

worms--properly those from which the crimson dye is obtained. Appropriate here; instead of the crimson coverlet, over thee shall be "worms." Instead of the gorgeous couch, "under thee" shall

be the maggot.

Isa 14:12-15 . THE JEWS ADDRESS HIM AGAIN AS A FALLEN ONCE-BRIGHT STAR.

The language is so framed as to apply to the Babylonian king primarily, and at the same time to shadow forth through him, the great final enemy, the man of sin, Antichrist, of Daniel, St. Paul, and St. John; he alone shall fulfil exhaustively all the lineaments here given.