CHAPTER XXIX
GOD'S POOR
DATE UNCERTAIN
Isaiah 25:1; Isaiah 26:1; Isaiah 27:1
WE have seen that no more than the faintest gleam of historical
reflection brightens the obscurity of chapter 24, and that the
disaster which lowers there is upon too world-wide a scale to be
forced within the conditions... [ Continue Reading ]
BOOK 5
PROPHECIES NOT RELATING TO ISAIAH'S TIME
In the first thirty-nine Chapter s of the Book of Isaiah-the half
which refers to the prophet's own career and the politics contemporary
with that - we find four or five prophecies containing no reference to
Isaiah himself nor to any Jewish king und... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER XXX
THE RESURRECTION
Isaiah 26:14; Isaiah 25:6
GRANTED the pardon, the justice, the Temple and the God, which the
returning exiles now enjoyed, the possession of these only makes more
painful the shortness of life itself. This life is too shallow and too
frail a vessel to hold peace and r... [ Continue Reading ]