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The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Isaiah, Volume 2 (of 2)

Smith, George Adam · 147,013 words · 201 reading sections

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_Salvation In Sight._

III. THE DIVINE SAVIOUR (ch. lxiii. 1-7). Once again the prophet turns to hail, in his periodic transport, the Solitary Divine Hero and Saviour of His people. That the writer of this piece is the main author of "Second Isaiah" is probable, both because it is the custom of the latter to describe at intervals the passi…

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Footnotes:

_Who is this coming from Edom,_ _Raw-red_ his _garments from Bossrah!_ _This sweeping on in his raiment,_ _Swaying in the wealth of his strength?_ _I that do speak in righteousness,_ _Mighty to save!_ _Wherefore is red on thy raiment,_ _And thy garments like to a wine-treader's?_ _A trough I have trodden alone,…

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_A Last Intercession And The Judgement._

ISAIAH lxiii. 7-lxvi. We might well have thought, that with the section we have been considering the prophecy of Israel's Redemption had reached its summit and its end. The glory of Zion in sight, the full programme of prophecy owned, the arrival of the Divine Saviour hailed in the urgency of His feeling for His peopl…

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_A Last Intercession And The Judgement._

But this intention of the prayer will amply account for any change of style we may perceive in the language. No one will deny that it is quite possible for the same man now to fling himself forward into the glorious vision of his people's future salvation, and again to identify himself with the most hopeless aspects of…

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Two points stand out from the rest. The Divine Trust, from which all God's dealing with His people is said to have started, and the Divine Fatherhood, which the prophet pleads. _He said, Surely they are My people, children that will not deal falsely: so He was their Saviour._ The "surely" is not the fiat of sovereignt…

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We have a New Testament echo of this Old Testament belief in the Fatherhood of God, as a moral and not a national relation, in Paul's writings, who in the Second Epistle to the Corinthians (vi. 17, 18) urges thus: _Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; …

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_A Last Intercession And The Judgement._

Ch. lxv. is thus closely connected, both by circumstance and logic, with the long prayer which precedes it. The tendency of recent criticism has been to deny this connection, especially on the line of circumstance. Ch. lxv. does not, it is argued, reflect the Babylonish captivity as ch. lxiii. 7-lxiv. so clearly does; …

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_A Last Intercession And The Judgement._

To the people, then, either in the near prospect of Return, or immediately after some of them had arrived in Jerusalem, the prophet addresses a number of oracles, in which he pursues the division, that ch. lxv. had emphasized, between the two parties in Israel. These oracles are so intricate, that we are compelled to t…

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A new section begins with ver. 7, and celebrates to ver. 9 the sudden re-population of the City by her children, either as already a fact, or, more probably, as a near certainty. Then comes a call to the children, restored, or about to be restored, to congratulate their mother and to enjoy her. The prophet rewakens the…

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_A Last Intercession And The Judgement._

We have thus gone step by step through the chapter, because its intricacies and sudden changes were not otherwise to be mastered. What exactly it is composed of must, we fear, still remain a problem. Who can tell whether its short, broken pieces are all originally from our prophet's hand, or were gathered by him from o…

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Footnotes:

_Lord, are there few that be saved?_ The Lord did not answer the question but by bidding the questioner take heed to himself: _Strive to enter in at the strait gate_. * * * * * Almighty and most merciful God, who hast sent this book to be the revelation of Thy great love to man, and of Thy power and will to save him,…

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Index To Chaps. Xl.-Lxvi.

[293] So Dillmann and Driver; Cheyne is doubtful. [294] Acts vii. 49. [295] 1 Cor. x. [296] So, in literal translation of the text, _the One_ being a master of ceremonies, who, standing in the middle, was imitated by the worshippers (_cf._ Baudissin, _Studien zur Semitischen Religions-geschichte_, i., p. 315, who co…

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Index Of Subjects

(_The Arabic numerals refer to pages, the Roman to chapters._) Anshan or Anzan, 112 f. Babylon, 55 ff.; capture of, 146 f., xii.; compared with Rome,189, 199 f.; meaning of its name, 191; its pride, 191; early history, 192 n.; cruelty, 201; yielding to Cyrus, 193; religion, 193; in the modern world, 200 ff.;…

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Index Of Subjects

Jerusalem or Zion, fall of, 30 ff.; religious significance of its destruction, 43 ff.; the exiles take the city's name to themselves, 47, 72; personification of Israel under name of Zion, 382 ff.; her restoration, 395, xxiv.; the Bride of God, 397 ff.; City of Judgement, 466. Jesus Christ, and the Passion of God…

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Chaps. I.--Xxxix.

אײם, 109 ארץ and הארץ, 262, 292, 298. עם ריתב, 262. בשר, 84, 85, 437 ff. נם, 206. על־לב דבר, 76. משלם, 263. משפט, 299. ענו, 384. נשא and מבל, 179 ff., 343, 352. יהוה עבד, 255, xvi. צדק and צדקה, xiv., 392. צלח, 168. קרא, 82. בשם קרא, 130 f., 437 ff. ראשנות and אחרית, 121, 206. טראש, 117, 119. δουλος an…

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New And Recent Works.

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SHEAVES OF MINISTRY: Sermons and Expositions. By JAMES MORISON, D.D. 8vo, cloth, 10_s._ 6_d._ NATURAL LAW IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD. By Professor HENRY DRUMMOND, F.R.S.E. Twenty-sixth Edition, completing One Hundred Thousand. Crown 8vo, cloth, 3_s._ 6_d._ "We have no hesitation in saying that this is one of the most …

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_Works By The Rev. Professor A. B. Bruce, D.D._

1. THE MIRACULOUS ELEMENT IN THE GOSPELS. 8vo, cloth, price 12_s._ "Dr. Bruce once more gives us a volume of great value. There is no living Apologist in whose hands the Christian faith is so safe."--_Presbyterian Messenger._ "It displays minute acquaintance with the modern literature of the subject, and all forms of…

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_Works By Rev. Prof. Marcus Dods, D.D._

1. THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS. Second Edition. Crown 8vo, cloth, price 7_s._ 6_d._ "Full of earnest pleading for reality in religion, and of an intelligent interest in modern social problems."--_Guardian._ 2. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW TESTAMENT. Third Edition. Fcap. 8vo, cloth, price 2_s._ 6_d._ "Each b…

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