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The Pulpit Commentary — Isaiah — Volume 1
George Rawlinson [1812-1902] · 527,316 words · 579 reading sections
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wide-reaching the principle of idolatry I The delight in genius, the admiration for it, may enter into religious feeling as one of its richest elements; it may, on the other hand, be separated from religious feeling altogether, and be the principle of an idolatry. IT. IT IB IlU'UllE AND CRUEL. There ie an allusion to …
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with a stranger, the King of Damascus. And these new institutions were carefully fenced, i.e. apparently they were established as a state religion. "And the very next morning he had brought into blossom what he had sown. The foreign layer had shot up like a hot-house plant, i.e. the alliance had speedily grown into a h…
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the borden. But in tl1e evening, when heart and strength fa.ii, we look for quiet cGmfort and considerate friends, and the gentle t\7ords of lo'l'e. '!'rouble in the evening is a peosi,•e sight. But if it be connectoo with tin, with personal wrong-doing how bitter a cup it is_! '17,en, when there should be memory of…
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individual inetaaoes, the words of the te:ll:t find illustration.' L When the proud, godless man is brought down from his high position; when of all in which he gloried nothing but a few berries on the topmost boughs are left. Let youth shrink from entering on a course which will certainly have this pitiful end; let th…
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Divine. 2. It includes only that which is absolutely insufficient and unsatisfattory. n supplies trea.sures which the thief can steal, joys which pa.II and perish, friendships which linger only for a few passing years. It has nothing which filla and satillfie, the human soul, made, as that is made, for heavenly wisdom,…
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view of II prophet of the sou them kingdom, Syria was the ringlea.rler of II confederacy ag11inet Judah, and so against Jehovah and the Jehovah-worship. And to such a Jehovah-prophet, Syria was the agent in tempting the northern kingdom of Israel to forsake even its show of allegiance to Jehovah, and throw in its inter…
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are removed, and the orchards are alive.with men, women, and children, It is a rnerr.y time, and t.he laugh and the song echo far and wide. Everywhere the poople 11ro in tho trees, 'shaking' them with all t)1eir might, to bring down the fruit. 'l'he effort ie to make a_ clear sweep of all t.he crop; but in spite of sha…
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plcaus in 11triking similarity with Teafab, eayi11g, "Then he forsook God which made him, and,lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation;"" Of tlie Rock that begat thee lliou art unmindful, and bast forgotten God th11Uormccl thee" (Deut. xxxii. 15, 18). I. MAN'S l'EBU.S is 4 MOBAL ni!:mo. These tjan be ilfostra,ted fr…
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EXPOSITION. OHAPTER xvm kings of the time e:rtended so far as he supposed. The ee&t of thell' power was Vera. 1-7.-THI: HOMAGE OF ETBTOPIA N apata, now Gebel Berkal, in the great bend TO J EHO'V AH. Amid the general excitement of the Nile between lat, 18° and 19° N.; cansed by the e.d'l"ance of Assyria, Ethiopia a…
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ponderating influence in the valley or the part, Then, suddenly, he te.kes the pa.rt Nile, and under Piankhi, Sh11bak, Bhabatok, described in the le.tter portion of ver. 5, and Tirhakah (Tahtuk), reduced Egypt to " outs off the shoots and hews down the eubjeotion, Isaiah, perho.ps, refers to their branches." Like a ole…
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to "stan<l sliil <11nd see the salvation of God" (Exod. xiv. 13), or ndmonishe<l that II in quict,oess and confidence should be their strength" (eh. xxx. 16) i thay con not bring themselves to net on the advice tendered. Great minds indeed are comp1mlti\rcly quiet nnd tranquil; b,1t even they are liable upon occasio…
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others, ,The pmphet lifts up- his voice 4> this people. A signal will be seen on tho mountah1s, the blast of a tru,npet will be heard. There will be symptor,1s of the Divine presence, restraining, overruling the wrath of men for ends of Divine wisdom. "When ware o.re carried on, every one sees clearly what is done; but…
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tyrants and other enemies, that they may not overthrow it or aucceed in accompliabing what they imagined to be in their powers. In order, therefore, to excite them to patience he not only distinguisbes them from the Ethiopians, but likewise reminds them that God m_it!gates his judgments for their preservation " (Calvi…
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their feeble defences are scattered to the winds, and their doom is utterly irreversible by anything they can do to mend it (see Ps. ii.; lxiii. 17-20; xcii. 6, 9). III. TBE LESSON OJI' GoD's JUDGHENTS. The result in this case is seen in the bring- ing of a tribute to the Lord (ver. 7). If God puts forth his power in …
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Ver. 4.-God can wait. "I will rest." God was apparently inactive and unobser~ vant, while the Assyrian was maturing hie plans and taking all his first steps. • But God watches the influences gathering round the growing-time of the trees, though men trace his working ~!most only in their fruitage. ·The words of-this pa…
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·()ppottiIOitieS, ·. ' • . ' • ' . I ' 'IV. IN Goo WAiITING ls! 'ALWAYS WISDOM AND STRENGTH. So we never need fret under it, or make inystery of it, or think untnistful things about it. God acts on the absolu:t~ly best moment, and we should wait on: for ages, and never want a thing until God's' best moment, fof Hha…
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EXPOSITION. OlIAPTER XIX. over Tirhe.kah Immediately followed by the p~ntation to_him in.his camp of Egyptian Vera.1-li.-THE BURDJ,:N OF ElGYPT. It de1t1es (G. Smith, 'History of Asshur-bRni• has been doubted whether this prophecy pal,' p. 20, l. 1), i.e. of their images. These refers to the conquest of Egypt by P…
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obeened above that Pie.nkhi will not anewer in grain or vegetables (Herod., ii. 14), ·" to this deBCription. It will, however, well either case prodacing the most luxuriant 11uit Esiirhaddon. Eee.rhnddon, soon after crops. All, however, depended on the in- his aoceesion, out off the heads of Abdi- undation, e.nd,'if…
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Ass.ria. Eearhaddon mnde 'i.t the 1,etM of a oity, and· the l,0M· hatlr not:done It?" one· of the prtty ki11gdoms into which he (Amos iii. 6). '.L'o br10g Egypt irito eo dis- divided Egypt (G. Smith,' History of Asshur- tracted a stnte, the l111ud of God· h1\d bccu hnni-pal,' p. 21, l. 2). Early in the reign of necessa…
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(or succour ('let. 20) nnd be delivered (ver. " That city which wa.s known as the City of 20); Egypt slmll evon becolno a po.rt of the Sun-God shall become known as the City Qf Destruction of the Sun-God o.nd of idola.- Jehovo.h's kingdom, shall "know him," and trons worship genera.Uy." That Heliopolis sor,ve him wit…
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attd oblatwn. The bulk of the Jews settled -the Palestinian, the Egyptian, and the in Egypt, together with their Egyptian Syro-Babylonie.n. Constnnt communication proselytes, went up year by yee.r to worship was maiutained between the three branches, Jehovah e.t Jerusalem, and make offerings Eoclesie.stiMl regule.ti…
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HOMILETICS, Vers. 1-17.-Egypt's pwnishment, a proof both of God's wng-sujfering tJAd of Ma inea:orableju,tice. 'rho punishment of Egypt by the Assyrian conquest, on which the prophet enlarges in this chapter, may be regarded in a double light, I. As STRONGLY EXHillITING THE LONG-BUFFERING AND HEBCY OF Goo. 1. Conside…
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Vera. 1-4.-Coming jtul,gment upon Egypt. The historical allusions in this paEsi,.ge cannot be positively cleared up. So far as. the :discovery ofinscri!)tion!l in rec!)nt yjl&rs enables us to lift a little the veil which hangs:. over the land, we ~ee it· sb11,ken, to..the centre by the wars of rival chieftains. A v,ict…
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I. THE sPmIT OF BOABTING, The king and his priestly oounsellol'II poeseu sacred books, which they consult as a college in times of emergency. The prieeta boast of being "sons of the wise," and sons of ancient kings. The Pharaoh himself belonged to the royal stock. Boasting is ever a sign of weakness. 'l'he strong ma…
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longer be their Foo, but their Friend; and when they cry to him, in the midst of distress and oppression, ho will hearken, and send a Helper and Deliverer. The people will sacrifice to him, and he will mako himself known; whether in the land or at Jerusalem (comp. Zech. xiv. 16-19) is not stated. 2, This wnnot be witho…
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ITT. TJJE EXPLANATION OF THE FAOT. The expl:\Mtlon is found in two things. l. ln 011r .•ensr q.f God's greatness, and the corresponding consciousness of our own littleness. Those who move in a bumble social sphere are &!!;ilated when they find themselves in the nt'ar presence of human r11nk, especially of high rank, mo…
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Vere. 11-14.-Leaders that mislead. The strong, energetic language of the prophet respect-ing the princes and counsellors of Egypt express for us the vast injury which is ·wrought by untrustworthy teacherg in every place and time, and the duty of the people to be on their guard against such seilucers (ver. 13). I. THE …
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came to hP.r in the ordinary ways, and appeared to her citizens as the result of common causes. They accounted for them by reference to general laws, to visible human po,rnrs, to known processes and current events. Yet we know them to havo been distinctly and decidedly of God, by whatever instrumentalities they may …
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III. ITS OROWN, This Is to be "a blessing in the midst of the land;" to be a bond of union between other powers-a. " third " to the Egypt and Assyria by which we may be surrounded. Privileged lands, like Engle.ad, find their crown, not in military successes, nor in annexations, nor even in well-filled banks or well-fit…
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Ver. 3.-Temptation w trust in diviners. "They shall seek •.. to the charmers." "A time of panic,_ wh~n the coun~els of ordin~ry st~tesmen failed, was sure in Egypt, as at Athens in its times of peril, to be fruitful 111 oracles and divinations." 'l'he most remarkable instance recorded in Scripture is that of King Sa…
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land will soon be turned into barrenness, and their harvests cease. Two things ue sttggcstcd for consideration. I. 'l'HE WONDERFUL WAY IN WHICH THINGS ABE LINKED TOGETHER. So that failure In one .thing brings on a most varied train of evils. '£he prominent thing here is the failure of the Nile flood; but how many thin…
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Babylonian, Persian, and Greek-which commenced almost immediately after the date of the above prediction. In the district of Heliopolis, on the site of a ruined temple at Lcontopolis (twenty miles north-east of Memphis), the high priest Onias IV. built his temple, under a special lioenoe from Ptolemy Philometor (about …
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the promise ma.de to Abraham, as a man of God and man of faith, that "in him, and in hi8 seed, all nations of the earth should be blessed" (Gen. xxii. 18). Scripture intimates that the Jews have been the great conservatorA of the two foundation-truth11, of (1) God's unity and (2) God's spirituality, for the whole world…
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EXPOSlTION. OHAPTER XX. inscriptions, pNIBented him to u, in the most distinct and "ivid way, as Icing, con- Vel"I. 1--6.-A PnOPKEOY AGAINST EGYPT queror, and builder. He was the founder of AXD E'l'IITOPIA. The Assyrian iusoliptions the last and greatest of the Ass;yria.n dy- enable us to date this prophC'<'Y with a…
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he reully does him service, 'l'hree year■, their overthrow. ~ chariotur, a11d - • Probubly from B.o. 713 to B.O. 711, or during of the Hlinga of Egypt, and the charioteers of the whole of the time th11t Philisti11, Edom, Oi,e King of Meroe, alfr,e in the midst of t!IIJ Moab, 11nd Judah were making rcpreseuta- battle,my…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vers.1-6.-~prophetasasign. I. THE BISTORICAL OIRCUMBTANOES. Theillusion of Egyptian unity had pass~ away again. The country was broken up under the rule of a number of petty kmgs, of whom Shabak, or So, or Seve (2 Kinas xvii. 4) was one. Negotiations seem to have been begun between Juda…
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Jehovnh (ver, 3) went about Jerusalem in that humiliating condition, 11nd that he would have unhesitatingly done this all the time if God ha<l required him to do so. Many suggestions have been made on the subject, but it does not occur to any one to entertain the idea that Isaiah would decline to render such an unpl…
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Vers. 2, 3.-Divine revelation in aetions as tDell ·as words. The l®gnage is some,~ what uncertain, but it seems better to un<lerstand that, for three years, lsaiab ·was seen _going to and fro through th~ streets of Jerusalem, having ~h~ dre~~ and; ~PiJ,ear~~ce of one who was already a pnsoner of war, re.'\dy to be led …
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Ver. 6.-A grave question with many applications. "How shall we escape?·• Egypt being reduced, no <lefence remained for Israel against the overwhelming power of Assyria. "'l'his was the cry of despair nt Jerusalem. But in such despair was her only hope. 'l'he <lestruction of Egypt and Ethiopia by the arms of Sennacherib…
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by Dl\bylon to the nations, to the captives, of horsemen; rather, a troop of horsemen and to the !tinge w!JoRe prison-doors were riding two and two, This is exactly how a kept closed (oh. xiv. 17), God has in his cavalry foree was ordinarily represented by counsels determined to bring to an end. the Aseyriane. Chari…
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Such Wll8 the permsn<>nt result. No doubt oberib's reign, when Edom waa at pence there WBB also, in the sack of the city, with Assyria, merely payin~ a moderate rnuoh dam&gc done to many of the idols by tribute (G. Smith, 'Eponym Canon,' p.132), n i:recdy soldiery, who mny have carried off and tho "night" of the Int…
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0 •in'habitane.. Tema is rooeonably iden- Assyria, but no trace of the war hu been tified with the moclem Taimd, o. village of found on the Assyrian monuments. the Ilauro.n, on the caravan route between Ver. 16.-Within a year, according to Palmyra and Petra. Its inhabitants ore the yean of an hireling (see the comment …
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Vers. 11, 12.-Ha'lf-hearted turni11g to God of no avail. There are many who, in the hour of distress, turn to God and bis ministers with the question," Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?" They are anxious to be assured that the dark time of their trouble is well-nigh over, and light about to dawn…
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to Hezekiah when he was sick (eh. xxxix. 1; 2 Kings xx. 12). The prophet may well grieve over the fall of Babylon, as likely to drag down with it weaker kingdoms. I. Tlll!I BOUND 01!' THE TEMPEST. What sublime poesy have the prophets found in the tempest I We are perhaps impressed more through the perception of the ea…
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II. THE ENIGMATIC ANSWER, 11 Morning cometh, and also night.' There ,were II wiE\e men" in Edom, and probably the answer is couched in the style they loved. 'What does it mean"! We can but conjecture. It may mean that the coming light of prosperity and joy is aoon to be quenched in the night of calamity again. Or, t…
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Ho,pHality is still fou11d in generous flow among the Arabs of these regions, and reminds 'the way(arer how near God is to man in the most desolate places. Wherever th.ere is a loving human heart, there indeed is a fount and an oasis in life's desert. A[!d this scene re.minds us how good comes out of evil, even the bit…
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and anoint the shield" ('l'"er. 5). Row often, when the ungodly are in the midst of their uujusl eirnctions or their unlawful 11leasuros, comes the blow which strikes the weapon from their hand, the cup from their lips (see Dan. v. 30; Acts xii. 22, 23; Luke xii. 20) ! 2. The completeness of their downfall. "Babylon…
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of bis truth, whllle many who have imagined that they saw have been found to be blind indeed (see John ix. 39). III. BtHPATHY. Israel in Egypt may have thought itaelf unpitled and even for- gotten of God; but it would have been wrong in so thinking (Exod. iii. 7). The Jews in Babylon mt1y have imagined themselves d…
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sad a thing to be left unanswered. So he ~aye," If you will 'iuquire,' do .inqu4'0. Come into the court of inquiry with a can<li,l, honest spirit; llo not dcluJe yourself by holding up OI~ or two modern objections before your eyes and declaring tl:iii.t tlicte is nc1thing to be seen. Take into account all the eviden…
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Ver. 2.-Nalions working out <Jod'a providencu. The reference of this" burden" is to Ifabyloo, which was the successor to Assyria in executing the Divine judgments on the Jews. Babylonia is called "the desert of the sea," as a poetical fiuure, suggested by th!l fact jJiat its surging masses of people were like a sea-…
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Ver. 9.-The work of tk iconoclast. "Fallec, fallen is Babylon, and all the images of its gods he bath broken unt.o the ground." Recent researches have disclosed the fact that there were three sieges of Babylon during the time of Isaiah-in B.o. 709 by Sargon, and in 703 and 691 by Sennacherib. Mr. George Smith, writin…
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Ver. 11.-The watchman's response. "Dumah," meaning "silence." is probably a mystical prophetic name for Edom. It seem~ that Edom was at this time in a con- dition of humiliation and depression that is well represented by the night-time. As the night passes, Edom calls to Isaiah, as the prophet-watchman, asking how much…
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qmmel with Kednr, nnd lit the ea.me time that hie power and omnigcience will aecure tne fulfilment of Lhe threatening. I. T11E DIVINE FOREKNOWLEDGE. "All things are naked anJ opened unto the eyee of him with whom we have to do;" "He knoweth the end from the beginning." God may be pleased to leave man his freedom, and …
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the e,~ning (Shaw,' Travels,' p. 211; Char- vision of the fight. Bree.king down the din, • Yoya~ee en Perse,' vol. iv. p. 116; walls; rather, undermining. 'l'he Assyri11n Layard, 'Nineveh,' vol. i. p. 177, etc.). sculptures show numerous exe.mples of this Ver. 2.-A joyo11B oity (comp. ver. 13). practice. Sometimes s…
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(1 Kings vii. 2-6). This was, it would thereof; i.e. you have not looked to God, seem, usod e.s e.n armoury (1 Kings x. 17; who in his eterne.l conn~els foreknew and xiv. 27; eh. uxix. 2). decreed all the steps that you are ta.king Ver. 9.-Ye have aeenalso ... are many; for your defence (see below, eh. uxvii. 26). mth…
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of the Jlll!llag-e. According t.b some, the two thus ehut off the body from the chnmbcl', oflfoiRla rcproeont r<>spectively the two cove- Chl\mbem hl\d soinctimos t,velve surh loc11U. nants, U1e old an,l the new; aooording to An habitation (comp. Eccles;·xii. 5). • Wo oth<>rs, they etand for the two great parties mu…
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i8 1 perhaps, itnplied thBt Shebna had 'not OERNING ELYAKIM. This verse has been conducted himself as a "father." tmly called "an enigma" (Kay). It is im- Ver, 22.-The key of the house of David possible to nnderstand it of Shebna. "The will I le.y upon his shoulder. A key would eeem to hove beeh the specie.I badge of …
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time the siege bad begun, The enemy was investing the place (ver, 7), But his teal"II flowed on account of the future "spoiling" of his people on that "day of trouble and treading down and perplexity;" when there was to be " breaking down of walls and crying to the mountains" (ver. 5), and Elam was to "bear the quiver,…
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key of the house of David plu.ced upon his shoulder, becomes his king's most trusty counsellor and representative, ie a glory and a support to his father's house, and retains his position, if not till hie death, at any rate for a long period. In estimating the extent to which God's moral government is carried on in th…
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HOMILIES DY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vers. 1-14.-Ju~ment upon Jerusalem. I. THE PROPHET AS. BPECTA,TQB. The valley of visiou seems t;i mean Jerusalem as a whole, round about which are mountains (Ps. ex.xv. 2); the city is spoken of, when compared with the surrounding mountains as the" inhabitant of the valley," otherwise a…
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