Charles Ellicott Commentary


Charles Ellicott Commentary
"The fool shall be no more called noble, nor the churl said to be bountiful." — Isaiah 32:5 (ASV)
The vile person shall be no more called liberal. —Better, noble, the καλοκάγαθος of the Greeks, the ingenuus of the Latin. So for “bountiful,” read gentle. Here, again, we have a picture, the exact contrast of that which we encountered at the beginning of Isaiah’s work, when men called good evil, and evil good (Isaiah 5:20).