PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Expositor's Bible: The Book of the Twelve Prophets, Vol. 1
Smith, George Adam · 134,148 words · 196 reading sections
_The King To Come_
[873] See above, pp. 365 ff. [874] See above, Chap. VII. [875] אחרית is the hindmost, furthest, ultimate, whether of space (Psalm cxxxix. 9: "the uttermost part of the sea"), or of time (Deut. xi. 12: "the end of the year"). It is the end as compared with the beginning, the sequel with the start, the future with the …
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Micah stands among the first, if he is not the very first, who thus focussed the hopes of Israel upon a great Redeemer; and his promise of Him shares all the characteristics just described. In his book it lies next a number of brief oracles with which we are unable to trace its immediate connection. They differ from it…
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Bethlehem was the birthplace of David, but when Micah says that the Deliverer shall emerge from her he does not only mean what Isaiah affirms by his promise of a rod from the stock of Jesse, that the King to Come shall spring from the one great dynasty in Judah. Micah means rather to emphasise the rustic and popular or…
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There follows upon this prophecy of the Shepherd a curious fragment which divides His office among a number of His order, though the grammar returns towards the end to One. The mention of Assyria stamps this oracle also as of the eighth century. Mark the refrain which opens and closes it.[896] _When Asshûr cometh into…
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[881] Schultz, _A. T. Theol._, p. 722. [882] See above, pp. 276 ff. [883] Wellhausen declares that this is unsuitable to the position of Jerusalem in the eighth century, and virtually implies her ruin and desolation. But, on the contrary, it is not so: Jerusalem is still standing, though alone (cf. the similar figure…
276 wordsSECTION 186_The Reasonableness Of True Religion_
MICAH vi. 1-8. We have now reached a passage from which all obscurities of date and authorship[898] disappear before the transparence and splendour of its contents. "These few verses," says a great critic, "in which Micah sets forth the true essence of religion, may raise a well-founded title to be counted as the most…
787 wordsSECTION 187_The Reasonableness Of True Religion_
In that free court of reason in which the prophets saw God and man plead together, the subjects were such as became them both. For God unfolds no mysteries, and pleads no power, but the debate proceeds upon the facts and evidences of life: the appearance of Character in history; whether the past be not full of the effo…
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The people speak:-- _Wherewithal shall I come before Jehovah,_ _Shall I bow myself to God the Most High?_ _Shall I come before Him with burnt-offerings,_ _With calves of one year?_ _Will Jehovah be pleased with thousands of rams,_ _With myriads of rivers of oil?_ _Shall I give my firstborn for a guilt-offering,_…
324 wordsSECTION 189_The Sin Of The Scant Measure_
MICAH vi. 9-vii. 6. The state of the text of Micah vi. 9-vii. 6 is as confused as the condition of society which it describes: it is difficult to get reason, and impossible to get rhyme, out of the separate clauses. We had best give it as it stands, and afterwards state the substance of its doctrine, which, in spite o…
666 wordsSECTION 190_The Sin Of The Scant Measure_
This section of the Book of Micah, whether it be by that prophet or not, describes no features of Jerusalem's life which were not present in the eighth century; and it may be considered as the more detailed picture of the evils he summarily denounced. It is one of the most poignant criticisms of a commercial community …
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One habit of falseness on which the prophet dwells is the use of unjust scales and short measures. The _stores_ or fortunes of his day are _stores of wickedness_, because they have been accumulated by the use of the _lean ephah_, the _balances of wrong_ and _the bag of false weights_. These are evils more common in the…
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[904] See above, pp. 370 ff. [905] Probably a later parenthesis. The word תושׁיה is one which, unusual in the prophets, the Wisdom literature has made its own Prov. ii. 7, xviii. 1; Job v. 12, etc. For _Thy_ LXX. read _His_. [906] Translation of LXX. emended by Wellhausen so as to read העיר מועד, the עיר being obtain…
422 wordsSECTION 193_Our Mother Of Sorrows_
MICAH vii. 7-20. After so stern a charge, so condign a sentence, confession is natural, and, with prayer for forgiveness and praise to the mercy of God, it fitly closes the whole book. As we have seen,[916] the passage is a cento of several fragments, from periods far apart in the history of Israel. One historical all…
658 wordsSECTION 194Index Of Passages And Texts
[916] Above, pp. 372 ff. [917] Cf. with it Exod. xxxiv. 6, 7 (J); Jer. iii. 5, l. 20; Isa. lvii. 16; Psalms ciii. 9, cv. 9, 10. [918] It was a woman who spoke before, the People or the City. But the second personal pronouns to which this reply of the prophet is addressed are all masculine. Notice the same change in v…
277 wordsSECTION 195Hosea
i., ii. 62 i. 1 61, 67 f., 69 _n._ i. 2 81, 93, 98 i. 3-ii. VII. ii. 13 72 iii.-vi. 62 ff. iii.-iv. 3 62, 63, VIII. iii. 3-8 81 ff., 89 ff., 196 iii. 7 198 iv. 4-13 IX., Sec. 1; 199 f. iv. 11 68 iv. 12 197 iv. 13 164, 201 ff. v. 63; IX., Sec. 2 v. 8, 9 166, 201 ff. v. 26, 27 108, 170 ff., 204 vi. 63; IX…
527 wordsSECTION 196*** End Of The Project Gutenberg Ebook The Expositor'S Bible: The Book Of The Twelve Prophets, Vol. 1 ***
i. 1, _Title_ 358 i.-iii. 358, 360, 362 ff. i. 362 f.; XXV. ii., iii. 363, 364; XXVI. ii. 12, 13 359, 360, 362, 393 _n._ 1 iii. 14 363 _n._ 2 iv., v. 357, 358, 360, 365 ff. iv. 1-7 XXVII. iv. 1-5 358, 365 iv. 5 367 iv. 6-8 358, 367 iv. 8-13 367 iv. 8-v. XXVIII. iv. 9-14 358, 359 iv. 11-13 358 iv. 14-v. 8…
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