Isaiah 38:1 I. Many have sought to realise the moment after death, and have strained imagination and faith to their utmost in the effort to pierce the veil beyond, and understand how we shall feel. The effort is not altogether in vain; for the attention of the mind will, at all events, give increas... [ Continue Reading ]
Isaiah 38:14 These are some of the words which King Hezekiah wrote when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness. This is surely a good prayer for a sick man, and it is a good prayer for a healthy man too; for if we understand what sickness is, we shall find it is sent that we may learn w... [ Continue Reading ]
Isaiah 38:15 The restoration of belief. In the especial case of "Hezekiah, belief was restored by a great shock, which brought him into contact with reality. God appeared to him not as to Adam, in the cool of the day, but as He came to Job, in the whirlwind and the eclipse and Hezekiah knew that h... [ Continue Reading ]
Isaiah 38:16 Affliction as related to life. I. Take first the conception of life as a whole, and see how that is modified or altered by experiences like those through which Hezekiah passed. They who have had no such critical experiences in any form have never fully awakened to the difference which... [ Continue Reading ]
Isaiah 38:18 Hezekiah presents to us here, in the strongest contrast, the two states of life and death. I. Death was to him for he lived before the day of Christ a far darker, far drearier state than it is to us. If he had any hope of a life beyond the grave, it does not appear in his words. He pr... [ Continue Reading ]