Note 1 — ISAIAH. (continued 2)

The world “together” does not mean that the transgressor shall be destroyed together with the sinner; but that the destruction of this one class, called both transgressors and sinners, shall come in close connection, “together with,” the salvation of the penitent who are brought back to God by correction, as is said in the previous verses. The same sort of infliction that reclaimed the “converts” (ver. 27), hardened and sealed over to ruin those who would still “forsake the Lord.”—Cowles.