On Isa 20:2 The writer wrote:Verse 2
"At that time Jehovah spake by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put thy shoe from off thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot."
"Sackcloth was regarded as the appropriate dress for prophets; it was made of the coarse hair of the goat."[5] As for the instruction here to walk naked and barefoot, it is a mistake to think that Isaiah was totally nude. Hailey's quotation from Delitzsch has this: "What Isaiah was directed to do was simply opposed to common custom, not to moral decency."[6] No doubt, he actually wore a loin cloth or some other very abbreviated garment. This instead of the prophet's customary dress was sensational enough. It is amazing that very respected commentators will flatly contradict the Word of God on a matter of this kind. Barnes pointed out that men consider it beneath the dignity of the royal prophet to have gone so long without his clothes. Lowth suggested that he walked naked and barefoot only for three days, which stood for three years![7] "Rosemuller supposed this to mean `only at intervals' for three years."[8] To all such objections and suggestions, there remains the solid answer of the text: "And he did so, walking naked and barefoot."
Is it possible that the writer of this can not see his rank hypocrisy. In the text I have made red. He is saying that the Bible cannot mean what it is obviously saying! And without any intervening text he launches into a harsh criticism in the text, (I have made blue), against those who say that maybe 3 years was not really what the bible meant, perhaps it was less time than that.
I am appalled ! What an incredible hypocrite, who condemns others for imputing their own interpretation on the scripture, and he has done in practically the same breath the same thing.
Did he not read the further context of verse 4?
How can he possibly think that Isaiah in underware is supposed to be predictive of the captives being bare of butt. Does he not know that the custom of conquerors is to humiliate and degrade their captives by enforced nudity in unsuitable conditions and to make sure that men and boys are not hiding among the women???Isa 20:4 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
I cannot fathom the dishonesty and ignorance of such who would purport a" pure honesty and expertise" in propounding the word of God in taking such blatant liberties while criticizing other for doing the same. It boarders on being laughable for a thing to be so sad!