‏ Isaiah 35:8


8 A thoroughfare will be there
it will be called the Way of Holiness.
tc The Hebrew text reads literally, “and there will be there a road and a way, and the Way of Holiness it will be called.” וְדֶרֶךְ (vederekh, “and a/the way”) is accidentally duplicated; the Qumran scroll 1QIsaa does not reflect the repetition of the phrase.

The unclean will not travel on it;
it is reserved for those authorized to use it
tn The precise meaning of this line is uncertain. The text reads literally “and it is for them, the one who walks [on the] way.” In this context those authorized to use the Way of Holiness would be morally upright people who are the recipients of God’s deliverance, in contrast to the morally impure and foolish who are excluded from the new covenant community.

fools
tn In this context “fools” are those who are morally corrupt, not those with limited intellectual capacity.
will not stray into it.
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