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501 3,7 | His mind (ver. 5).~ His black spirits were slightly lightened 502 11,6 | so far that he virtually blasphemed (ver. 18), almost comparing 503 13,2 | stone and on men’s hearts, blend together in a unique com 504 6,6 | Final Blessedness (Chs. 65-66). ~ Though in 505 13,0 | IIKings 25:4), his capture, blinding and leading into exile ( 506 13,8 | as the social iniquity, bloodshed and wresting of judgment ( 507 13,2 | these chapters Ezekiel’s blue prints for the restored 508 13,4 | the children’s teeth are blunted” (Jer. 31:29; Ezek. 18:2). 509 13,3 | lines of his picture become blurred. This may be by the background 510 6,0 | Haste-spoil-speed-booty” is written on a large board and fastened outside Isaiah’ 511 1,8 | from the Jewish people the boast that from their race came 512 13,6 | in which the contents are boiled up and thrown out, and then 513 11,5 | take the form of a huge, boiling cauldron leaning over from 514 2,4 | them in even more hyperbolical language, as they are seen 515 6,8 | attempt to explain this inner bond, but will dwell on the actual 516 17,3 | following curse: “May the bones shake of those, who calculate 517 1,7 | ever crossed the Egyptian border; he certainly never conquered 518 11,5 | with it; he might be simply borrowing from another (ver. 30). 519 1,8 | arm and hold them in His bosom, and shall soothe them that 520 1,5 | 2), his breaking of the bottle (ch. 19), his wearing a 521 5,4 | had tired of her. Hosea bought her back for one-and-a-half 522 17,3 | and its application is not bounded by the times of Antiochus 523 17,5 | histories does not pass the bounds of the credible, and in 524 17,4 | that Zockler, Wright and Boutflower (conservatives all) suggest 525 11,4 | frontier. Jehoiakim had to bow to a new lord (Dan. 1:1; 526 12,1 | refers not to Edom but to Bozrah, which is feminine. So it 527 Intro | encouragement given by Mr. F. F. Brace, Head of the Department 528 15,4 | between the mountains of brass (probably the popular idea 529 5,6 | up to the point where it breaks down; ver. 7 is purely parenthetic. 530 4,3 | new in Amos’ message. It breathes in the stories of Genesis, 531 1,8 | saying, “For I wish not, brethren, that ye be ignorant of 532 13,0 | in Babylonia of sun-dried bricks), bring out his bundle, 533 4,2 | money. Once he finished his brief ministry in the North, he 534 6,5 | Israel. It is, to put it briefly and clearly, a Pyramid: 535 1,8 | light, and nations in the brightness (Is. 60:1‑3).~Here is the 536 6,9 | live in burning pitch and brimstone.~ Ch. 35 is an outstanding 537 18,2 | the streams of water, That bringeth forth its fruit in its season. ( 538 4,2 | south of Jerusalem on the brink of the drop down to the 539 3,4 | interesting examples in the British Museum). A vivid impression 540 17,9 | of general agreement on broad lines of exegesis among 541 6,5 | Jehovah.).~ And so Zion, broken-hearted and despondent through the 542 13,0 | house, dig through the wall (built as always in Babylonia of 543 4,7 | simpler to assume that a bull image was set up in Samaria 544 1,8 | out of Seir. Guard ye the bulwarks. I watch in the morning 545 1,8 | give the wicked for His burial, and the rich for His death; 546 1,8 | and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and are 547 13,2 | charred (this is the force of “burned,” ver. 4), so there was 548 4,2 | visited the towns of Israel on business, and that what he saw there 549 13,7 | this view tacitly attributes to cherub (28:14) a meaning 550 11,6 | the Pharaoh was glad to buy them off. Herodotus’ account 551 1,5 | a yoke (chs. 27-28), his buying of land (32:7-15), his use 552 13,2 | information about his father, Buzi, beyond that he was of priestly 553 17,3 | to restore Jerusalem, the calculation of the year of the coming 554 4,4 | God-willed, whether the golden calf-images were a breach of the Sinai 555 18,5 | Jerusalem and describes the callousness of the neighbouring nations. 556 Intro | Authorized Version.~ C.B. — Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges.~ 557 14,2 | Most of the short reign of Cambyses, his son (530-522 B.C.) 558 13,7 | represented that popular Canaanization of Jehovah-worship that 559 13,3 | banks of the river Chebar, a canal south of Babylon. As he 560 2,4 | The palmerworm, locust, cankerworm, caterpillar (1:4) are either 561 17,2 | prophetic character could gain canonization as such, nor could it gain 562 17,3 | unsatisfactory by any normal canons of interpretation. It will 563 6,6 | 2-12, but serves in that capacity for the whole book. It consists 564 9,2 | origin is found in the name Capernaum = Kephar Nahum, i.e. Village 565 4,4 | they attributed to Him the capriciousness and non-moral character 566 6,6 | earth (66:22), but with the carcases of the rebels. Isaiah is 567 4,3 | representative, was not caring for the administration of 568 15,4 | four craftsmen (both A.V. carpenters, R.V. smiths are too precise) 569 15,4 | exactly to plan; it has been carved by Jehovah Himself.~ ~V. 570 1,8 | 18).~The Prophet Jeremiah castigates, and he laments the people' 571 18,5 | In vers. 1-10 we have the casting off by God of people, land 572 13,3 | the first only receives casual mention, so the last, as 573 2,5 | that followed were the most catastrophic in their history for the 574 17,3 | section. If the writer were a catcher up of foreign words, one 575 13,0 | be a bold man who would categorically deny that we are seeing 576 2,4 | palmerworm, locust, cankerworm, caterpillar (1:4) are either different 577 6,7 | kingdom of God. The purification and final glory, which are 578 3,3 | left hand; and also much cattle.” Jehovah is not merely 579 17,9 | seems to confirm the note of caution already struck.~ d) This 580 18,8 | and knowingly, few would cavil at it. The reason why this 581 6,8 | from this moment that Judah ceases to function as a nation 582 8,2 | unanimity that 1:4-9 must precede Josiah’s reformation of 583 13,3 | Just as the first only receives casual mention, so the last, 584 6,8 | at the great autumn feast celebrating God’s sovereignty. The dying 585 18,7 | not plead personal innocence, it looks as though ver. 586 8,3 | though universal, always centres around Israel. For the comparison 587 10,3 | now reconstruct it with certainty, its main thought 588 11,2 | that the temple and all its ceremonial were doomed to destruction 589 6,2 | probabilities, not provable certainties (For the unity of Isaiah 590 6,8 | breaking the law” (Jalkut Chadach, fol. 154, col 4, 29, Tit). 591 13,3 | a difficulty resolved by Chananiah ben Hezekiah after burning 592 17,3 | interpretation. It will not be chance that this passage is not 593 17,3 | copyist that the language is changing. This change of language 594 1,8 | forth in the desert, and a channel of water in a thirsty land... 595 13,7 | having different names and characteristics at different times and in 596 17,2 | to act who felt himself charged with a real message of God 597 13,1 | mg.). Then (13:10-16) he charges them with whitewashing, 598 17,2 | more readily accepted. Charles puts it thus:~ ~“How then 599 13,2 | and the middle had been charred (this is the force of “burned,” 600 14,3 | hills of Judaea stone is cheap, wood is a luxury. Then 601 13,3 | to the banks of the river Chebar, a canal south of Babylon. 602 6,8 | back to the smiters, and My cheeks to them that plucked off 603 13,7 | view tacitly attributes to cherub (28:14) a meaning that is 604 6,8 | orthodox Hebrew knew from childhood the law that sin can be 605 4,6 | to the past. Siccuth and Chiun (R.V). are generally taken 606 6,9 | know to refuse the evil and choose the good ...” ver. 16) Rezin 607 14,5 | which Jehovah desires and chooses. Obviously for his hearers 608 17,0 | unspecified time of God’s own choosing, He would set up His kingdom 609 18,0 | Grace hath come” (Octoechos, Dogmatic Theotokion of 610 5,5 | While it is true that God chose Jeroboam as a punishment 611 11,4 | B.C. (1:2). If we compare Chron. with Kings, we see that 612 14,2 | typical that the priestly Chronicler should mention only the 613 6,8 | realize that in the Scriptures chronological order is always 614 6,6 | a certain type of “high churchman “that the main prophets 615 3,6 | find it confirmed for the circumference of the city by Diodorus 616 11,6 | comparing Jehovah to the broken cisterns he had equated the false 617 6,1 | of the Persians. Only the citadel held out. This was stormed 618 13,4 | The Citizen Basis of the Restored Community ( 619 18,5 | survivors after the leading citizens had been deported.~ In ver. 620 1,1 | in size, not in value (De Civitate Dei: 18. 29). Though we 621 5,3 | character, interests and claims of a Baal. For the prophets 622 14,1 | prophet through his dreams or clairvoyance. He had in large measure 623 5,3 | 201, Kenyon, pp. 229, 275, Clarendon Bible, O.T. IV, p. 218.).~ ~ 624 13,3 | make no effort either to clarify Ezekiel’s description or 625 11,2 | in the pulpit and Bible class. For this there are at least 626 1,4 | if it involves his being classed with them: “I am no prophet, 627 15,2 | diverging views may be roughly classified as follows:~ 1) The whole 628 1,8 | ulcer. they have not been cleansed, nor bandaged, nor mollified 629 6,1 | usual to praise Isaiah’s clear-sighted foreign policy when Judah 630 17,2 | that does not diminish the clear-sightedness by which they saw them.~ 631 11,2 | practices that Josiah had cleared away. We find fewer mentions 632 6,8 | bitterness, Thy tongue shall cleave to Thy throat… and Thy soul 633 6,7 | vintage festival; note how cleverly the barbed point of the 634 4,4 | given by our Lord as the clinching proof that He is the Messiah.~ 635 4,2 | hand, so he wrapped his cloak around him and went off 636 6,2 | these chapters form the closest unity of any prophetic message 637 6,8 | garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes” ( 638 6,8 | in light vestments. The clothing of the priest Joshua symbolizes 639 5,5 | chesed is as the morning cloud, and as the dew that goeth 640 16,2 | reformation, in which Nehemiah co-operated outwardly…” (Pusey, op. 641 13,6 | the 40 for Judah being coalesced with the 390 for Israel. 642 13,8 | land (R.V. mg,). Then the coals of divine wrath from the 643 17,4 | This would sweep away the cogency of the linguistic objection, 644 11,4 | Jehoiakim, and Zedekiah, coincide with the first three of 645 17,3 | Roman emperor Tiberius. This coincides with the 782nd year from 646 14,2 | external opposition had now collapsed, and so the prophets Haggai 647 11,8 | shore up the doomed and collapsing house of Judah, and there 648 11,8 | the fall of Jerusalem the collection, The Book of Hope, 649 14,4 | when the people began to collect material for building, 2: 650 11,3 | warning he would give. He collected leading personalities (19: 651 1,6 | there were at least two collections of his prophecies in existence 652 6,5 | has been interpreted as collective Israel, real or ideal. This 653 Intro | Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges.~ Driver LOT — Driver: Introduction 654 1,8 | image before them in these colors: in the light of meekness, 655 7,7 | ver. 8), which virtually combines the teaching of his three 656 6,5 | The only tenable method of combining the traditional view with 657 5,7 | of the people, they welcomed it for the sake of the resultant 658 1,8 | Apostle Paul himself becomes a comforter of his people, saying, “ 659 1,8 | Thus the Prophet Isaiah comforts, becoming in those days 660 17,3 | ruined by the people of the commander who shall come and whose 661 13,5 | serious opposition. Now God commands him to abstain from public 662 17,6 | research, however valuable and commendable they may be, that we shall 663 11,2 | such may be seen by his commendation of Sabbath observance (as 664 6,6 | reformation. Note that so far from commending Hezekiah’s action, Isaiah 665 1,7 | prophecies without explanatory comment is ample evidence that the 666 6,0 | Maher-shalal-hash-baz, found in some commentaries, has nothing to commend 667 13,4 | repetition and expansion of this commission just before the news of 668 13,0 | 47:6), he had never been commissioned by Jehovah to act against 669 13,4 | Ezekiel’s Commissioning. ~ Ezekiel is addressed 670 1,8 | speak falsehoods; they have committed iniquity and they have not 671 17,3 | words which had become far commoner by his time. It will, however, 672 17,1 | History (Ch. 7).~ It is a commonplace of exegesis that the four 673 6,6 | probably refers to the Jewish communities that sprang up later in 674 4,6 | which even at this date accompanied the sacrifices, “the melody 675 11,3 | work of Baruch, Jeremiah’s companion and scribe (36:4, etc.; 676 2,3 | intervention with its accompanying upheavals and judgments 677 16,4 | would suit a treatise on comparative religion better than an 678 8,4 | and all the points of the compass, i.e. universality.~ ~ 679 6,8 | and the reply is: “The compassionate one, as it is written “These 680 6,7 | context, therefore, seems to compel us to take 45:7 literally 681 17,1 | sovereignty of God, which not only compels rebellious men to do His 682 11,3 | The Compiling of the Book. ~ A careful 683 17,3 | symbolically meaning fullness, completeness.~ The meaning of the given 684 17,3 | linguistic phenomena are more complex than the dictum just quoted 685 6,2 | consider the increasing complexities demanded by the usual modern 686 17,1 | centre of his attacks. To complicate matters, the book seems 687 18,3 | Metrically ch. 3 is the most complicated. It falls into groups of 688 18,1 | likely that Jeremiah did compose Lamentations.” (Young, p. 689 6,7 | accept the older view of composite authorship, it could only 690 5,3 | a number of place-names compounded with Baal. Equally the goddesses 691 7,7 | and our failure to get a comprehensive picture of the demands 692 17,3 | anointed. Therefore know and comprehend: that from the moment that 693 6,8 | patriarch Jacob becomes comprehensible, as told to his son Judah, 694 1,8 | their prophetic books, which comprise the last grouping of the 695 14,6 | Jerusalem would not have compromised their position with Tattenai 696 6,5 | interpretation of the Servant almost compulsory, and the only personal interpretation 697 1,8 | lest ye be wise in your own conceits; that hardness in part is 698 6,9 | virgin (almah) is about to conceive a son, who will be called 699 4,4 | Hosea (see p. 37). Having conceived of Jehovah as merely their 700 4,6 | that the average Israelite concentrated on an annual visit to the 701 6,5 | conception consists of two concentric circles with a common centre. 702 7,7 | social sin rather than false conceptions of religion. Israel 703 6,3 | we consider man’s best concepts of God (ver. 18ff). A similar 704 16,2 | put together.~ His message concerns God’s love. In the difficulties 705 6,9 | the Messiah can also be concluded after we read the predictions 706 Intro | disagree with some of my conclusions. As regards the former, 707 12,1 | against this view are almost conclusive. If the Edomites had behaved 708 2,2 | not consider either dating conclusively proved, and we here deal 709 10,3 | context.~ Young’s Analytical Concordance shows only two examples 710 11,8 | frequently later, and is condemning the false prophets, cf. 711 11,3 | to do with an eye-witness condensation of some of Jeremiah’s prophecies 712 17,3 | services in the Temple were conducted very irregularly, and finally, 713 6,1 | disappeared. Nineveh fell to the confederate armies of Babylon and the 714 12,3 | would expect from one’s confederates; the latter is the grim 715 18,4 | note of hope struck. She confesses (ver. 18ff) that her punish 716 15,4 | that there is no personal confession.~ Here Zechariah strikes 717 14,5 | Babylonia, bases itself confidently on the expression “all 718 13,2 | This applies, too, to the confinement of priesthood to a group 719 6,2 | the question whether God confines His judicial activities 720 14,5 | Solomon’s is affirmed, thus confirming that extensive repair rather 721 7,2 | Hezekiah.~ If this is so, it confirms the general impression created 722 17,4 | bringing it into this minute conformity with historical detail. 723 6,4 | the history of mankind, confounding every anticipation and inaugurating 724 6,4 | foretelling was to the silence, confusion or ambiguity of the heathen 725 6,3 | of Satan — “the Mount of congregation in the uttermost north” 726 3,5 | drops into place as entirely congruous. Even a landlubber like 727 2,5 | find expression is, in conjunction with the work of Christ, 728 6,5 | Songs, and in two cases the connecting link, viz. 42:5-9; 49:7- 729 13,9 | obscured by the religious connotation given to “pastor” in the 730 15,5 | although it has Messianic connotations cannot be said to be purely 731 10,4 | blood for the sheer love of conquering.~ 2. ver. 9ff take up the 732 6,4 | the first of those world conquerors who have swept meteor-like 733 10,1 | Chaldeans.~a. ver. 6ff. Their Conquests.~b. ver. 9ff. Their Rapacity.~ 734 13,5 | to be taken as happening consecutively is seen from the chronology. 735 14,5 | 1:12; 2:2) is by common consent a technical term meaning 736 7,2 | that these chapters are considerably later than 3:12, which Jer. 737 2,2 | where necessary by spiritual considerations. This creates a presumption 738 15,3 | increased by the chapters consisting of a considerable number 739 1,8 | whole galaxy of persons to console them in their sufferings. 740 1,8 | Ezekiel (Ezek. 37:24‑26).~In consoling their contemporaries, the 741 5,7 | a different division of consonants, “the great king,” i.e. 742 11,7 | form an anti-Babylonian conspiracy in the fourth year of Zedekiah ( 743 11,0 | he would not obey Him; he constantly reformed, yet ever hankered 744 18,0 | neighbor as oneself. They constitute the ideological essence 745 17,3 | prophecies. The order for the new construction of Jerusalem and the temple 746 8,3 | explanations a commentary must be consulted. We find the conditions 747 11,0 | the individual’s living contact with the living God unbound 748 15,2 | of the tribes of Israel.~ Contacts between the style of chs. 749 14,6 | viz. while holiness is not contagious, uncleanness is. Therefore 750 1,8 | desires alone? They were contemplating another revelation of God: 751 16,2 | with. Pusey looks on him as contemporaneous, “Yet he probably bore a 752 11,4 | whole message of the roll contemptuously and would have arrested 753 17,9 | inclination, so we have contented ourselves with laying down 754 6,5 | standard book shows that Continental scholars have long been 755 18,2 | night. (Ps. 1:2.).~ b) A continuation of the thought:~And he shall 756 8,3 | the Lord see ch. II. The contraction of the vision from a universal 757 14,4 | as it stands it seems to contradict 2:18. The Hebrew separates 758 17,2 | succeeded, if the new book had contradicted the already existing Scripture. 759 1,4 | Amos 7:14, R.V. mg.).~ In contradistinction to these false prophets, 760 7,5 | in common in similar but contrasting ways. Isa. 2:2-5 is used 761 10,4 | pronounced against acts that contravene man’s sense of the fitness 762 6,2 | complete in itself, yet all contributing to the building up of the 763 10,3 | s Message. ~ Habakkuk’s contribution to our knowledge of God 764 6,5 | strong ruler in Jerusalem who controls Edom. Uzziah is the last 765 17,3 | break could not have come so conveniently seems to have little force. 766 17,3 | seventy weeks are merely a conventional symbolical round number 767 11,6 | his senses by His call to conversion (ver. 19, if thou return, 768 6,6 | see vers. 4 and 27 (her converts) and comments on ch. 6 below.~ 769 17,3 | side seems to be able to convince the other.~ Far more important 770 11,7 | 36ff.).~ When Jeremiah convinces Israel of her sin, she merely 771 11,6 | that they shared in the convulsions that preceded the destruction 772 17,3 | merely a warning to the copyist that the language is changing. 773 13,2 | The respect, however, accorded to Ezekiel by the elders 774 13,5 | ver. 9) days, bound with cords (ver. 8), unless indeed 775 18,0 | Christ has come. And the very core of the Old Testament law — 776 15,4 | There are four for the four corners of the earth, and they represent 777 18,0 | rises up to the heavens. The cornerstones of this foundation are the 778 13,8 | left in the city will be corpses; they themselves will be 779 6,6 | a sin. Indeed, the very correctness only magnifies the offence. 780 6,6 | correct worship without corresponding morality of life 781 10,3 | line has been textually corrupted. Though we cannot now reconstruct 782 9,3 | people. There are textual corruptions in vers. 10 and 12; the 783 2,7 | and transformation in the cosmic stretch of the power of 784 6,5 | under Hoshea yielded at the cost of the loss of Trans-Jordan 785 6,8 | up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old 786 4,4 | Isa. 3:16-23), the ivory couches and the eating of immature 787 1,8 | great Counsel, Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty One, the Potentate, 788 17,3 | their fellow countrymen to count the weeks of Daniel. The 789 15,5 | ver. 12f) would be to run counter to all prophecy. In addition 790 14,6 | of uncleanness more than counteracts the presence of holiness, 791 7,2 | standpoint of the suffering countryman. Nothing is known of him 792 17,3 | often forbade their fellow countrymen to count the weeks of Daniel. 793 14,6 | a further message of encouragement (cf. 2:10 with 2:18).~ It 794 5,5 | is always loyal love and covenanted mercies.~ Hosea’s marriage 795 13,7 | that is not readily discoverable in other Scripture references. 796 7,4 | The greedy landowners who covet their poor neighbours’ fields ( 797 13,5 | make-up.~ The use of dried cow’s dung (4:15) for fuel is 798 13,3 | more explains the living creatures or cherubim (10:20) than 799 1,2 | necessarily establish his credentials (Deut. 13:1ff). Ultimately 800 1,8 | Sticheron on “Lord, I have cried”).~A full explanation of 801 1,8 | deliverance and good will.~One cries to me out of Seir. Guard 802 1,8 | living God. Isaiah also crieth concerning Israel: Though 803 17,3 | your Holy City, so that the crime might be veiled, the sins 804 11,2 | prophet’s writings were any criterion of the number of books that 805 17,1 | to make the task of the critic the easier. For over half 806 Intro | follower of none, and the only criticisms I shall regret are those 807 6,1 | by the need to deal with Croesus king of Lydia. He was defeated 808 17,6 | 100 did produce a large crop of pseudepigraphic works ( 809 5,3 | growth of vegetation and the crops with mainly ritualistic 810 1,7 | that Nebuchadnezzar ever crossed the Egyptian border; he 811 7,7 | to Gil-gal” refers to the crossing of the Jordan; some part 812 17,3 | In many ways this is the crucial chapter of Daniel. If in 813 9,1 | dominant in the West. Her power crumbled immediately after the death 814 14,2 | empire asunder had been crushed, and it was clear that strong 815 18,9 | Bible.~ Grief, great and crushing, is an unavoidable part 816 17,3 | language of vers. 24-27 is cryptic, it is hardly symbolic.~ 817 17,2 | as history must be meticulous in its accuracy; how much 818 14,1 | misleadingly, though accurately, for angel=messenger, renders “ 819 13,4 | whether he fought against the current or swam with the tide. Their 820 6,8 | ears shall hear terrible curses, Thy mouth shall taste bitterness, 821 11,6 | 18, cf. Job 3).~ So the curtain falls on the prophet, rejected 822 5,7 | of which they were made custodians (4:6), as a result of which “ 823 11,2 | it was also a Canaanite custom-was the Philistine who in and 824 13,8 | 13). They were daring and cynical men, with their metaphor “ 825 13,3 | prophet’s concern with the daily details of life (cf. ISam. 826 14,4 | suggests little more than damage by fire, which would have 827 5,4 | barley…”), i.e. half price as damaged goods (cf. Exod. 21:32).~ 828 11,1 | saw the position and its dangers so clearly that he decided 829 17,7 | B.C. His name is spelled Dani’el (or more likely Dan’el), 830 17,7 | hero of our book spells his Daniyye’l, and this is true also 831 13,8 | all (11:1-13). They were daring and cynical men, with their 832 13,5 | seen more clearly and in darker colours. Then ch. 20 is 833 13,2 | chapters, we should not be daunted by our inability to understand 834 15,3 | exalted and unique figure. Davidson defines Him excellently, “ 835 18,0 | shadows that come just before dawn were dispersed when the 836 1,8 | opened, and the ears of the deaf shall hear. Then shall the 837 4,6 | more. It affirms that God’s dealings with men follow consistent 838 5,4 | is the love of God more dearly and tenderly expressed 839 5,3 | An interesting picture of debased popular religion has been 840 11,2 | covenant (Exod. 20-23) the Decalogue takes pride of place, and 841 11,5 | him, denouncing him as a deceiver or madman; at times he was 842 11,6 | 7-18). He accused God of deceiving or, better, enticing (mg). 843 14,6 | prophet was speaking in December, when rain was absolutely 844 4,4 | violations of the ordinary decencies of life. Here come the crimes 845 11,4 | the prophecies of his predecessors, especially Hosea, suggests 846 17,8 | present had no difficulty in deciphering the letters; owing to the 847 14,1 | matters kept for prophetic decision in the future, but the context 848 3,2 | tied to ink and parchment. Decisive should be our Lord’s use 849 6,5 | lapsed. An Egyptian army was decisively defeated, and Hezekiah yielded, 850 13,3 | that the rabbis themselves declared that he who had come to 851 13,2 | forget that when the epigram declares, “Jeremiah was a prophet 852 5,3 | 158ff.).~ The first sign of declension after the death of Joshua 853 16,2 | returned, and which had decreased but little after the rebuilding 854 13,1 | popular exegesis, Sheba, Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, 855 17,8 | from his table had been so dedicated. There would have been little 856 3,2 | however noble.~ Apart from the deep-rooted dislike of the modern spirit 857 13,2 | mountain (40:2; 47:1), it deepens miraculously. No appeal 858 11,5 | The remainder shows how deeply Jeremiah had been led to 859 14,1 | returned, the Tirshatha deferred the matter until “there 860 11,7 | her sin, she merely says defiantly, “No hope; no! for I have 861 13,9 | been gradually leaving the defiled temple and city, cf. 8:4; 862 13,6 | they are summed-up in the defilement of the sanctuary (5:11). 863 1,2 | Prophet. ~ The prophet is not defined or explained in the Old 864 15,3 | unique figure. Davidson defines Him excellently, “The Angel 865 1,6 | may well have been given definitive form by the prophet before 866 11,7 | Zedekiah (chs. 27, 28) and to deflect the weak king of Judah from 867 5,3 | who broke this religious degeneration, but how far it had gone 868 5,7 | love triumphed over sin and degradation, so his prophecy closes 869 1,1 | not in value (De Civitate Dei: 18. 29). Though we are 870 13,3 | existence of the Babylonian deities, but simply that in such 871 14,3 | for they had been able to “del,” i.e. line with wood, their 872 1,7 | good may be annulled or delayed, if men do not obey, while 873 11,8 | of success. It only, by delaying the final catastrophe, made 874 13,9 | as the Spirit-appointed delegates of Jesus Christ, “the Chief 875 18,2 | in other words: But his delight is in the law of the LORD; 876 6,5 | of chs. 40-55 was that of Delitzsch who wrote: The idea of the 877 17,3 | 62 weeks Christ shall be delivered for death, and shall no 878 1,8 | shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and He shall turn away 879 6,8 | of the described event, demanding considerable willful effort 880 11,6 | vague and contains such demonstrable errors that it is probably 881 4,4 | fact. It is perhaps best demonstrated by Matt. 11:5 where “and 882 1,8 | whereon My name is called, a den of thieves in your eyes? ( 883 4,7 | He not merely implicitly denies the commonly held view that 884 5,3 | worship of the Baalim he denounces probably included the worship 885 13,4 | in Babylonia hurling his denunciations at the inhabitants 886 7,7 | 6:9-16 we have a second denunciation of Judah, but this time 887 Intro | F. F. Brace, Head of the Department of Biblical History and 888 11,5 | sanctuary, his bread and butter depended on his not offending unduly 889 7,5 | explained by the element of dependence in Micah on Isaiah. The 890 15,4 | oil, the lights were not dependent on human care as was the 891 6,5 | by Shalmaneser, and the deportation of its inhabitants by his 892 9,2 | left in the North after the deportations by the Assyrians (cf. JIChron. 893 2,7 | trace in the Bible of that depreciation of the material and temporal 894 3,7 | with heatstroke. In his depression the loss of the gourd seemed 895 1,8 | have mercy upon all. O the depths of the riches, both of 896 Intro | latest authority, P. van der Meer: The Ancient Chronology 897 1,8 | not; behold, our God rendereth judgment, and He will render 898 1,7 | better. Nineveh was not destroyed in forty days, but 899 16,4 | burden ‘(ver. 12f); some even descended to gross deceit (ver. 14). 900 18,5 | the siege, or whether they describe the misery of the survivors 901 18,4 | interrupted by the poet with a descriptive verse (ver. 17). Finally 902 13,7 | The Desecration of the Temple (Ch. 8). ~ 903 5,3 | prostitution (!) at the shrines, designed magically to increase the 904 13,0 | 16-38) that even as the desolation of the land was due 905 5,2 | the last dark, violent and desperate anarchical years before 906 16,1 | Apostasy.~3 — Chs. 2:17-3:6. Despising of God’s Promises and Commandments.~ 907 6,5 | Zion, broken-hearted and despondent through the failure of the 908 11,8 | triumph this area was again detached from Judah, and Jeremiah 909 17,3 | and for the holy city are determined 70 “weeks” (70x7= 490 years), 910 6,2 | tribution of passages from “Deutero-” and “Trito-Isaiah” to Isaiah 911 4,6 | 32:9ff).~ Since by the Deuteronomic legislation the third year 912 11,4 | found (IIKings 22:8) was Deuteronomy, for Jeremiah is obviously 913 11,0 | shelter somewhere in a less devastated corner of his own land. 914 17,3 | of the war there shall be devastation. During one seventh shall 915 18,2 | accidents. Its main technical device is parallelism or thought 916 6,7 | his back on the people to devote himself to his disciples, 917 18,2 | public worship and private devotion. The Metrical Version of 918 10,4 | Nebuchadnezzar was a very devout man. It is part of God’s 919 5,5 | morning cloud, and as the dew that goeth away early;” 920 10,1 | Habakkuk. ~ A. A Spiritual Dialogue—Chs. 1, 2.~1 — 1:2ff. The 921 9,3 | article Nahum.). There are two diametrically opposite errors connected 922 5,4 | marry Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim (the name is not likely 923 11,4 | The motives are not indicated, but they can easily be 924 9,3 | to decide that the few indications of an acrostic are purely 925 1,8 | rest shall be a reward, predicts Isaiah (Is. 11: 10).~The 926 18,0 | nomothetic, historical, didactic and prophetic books. They 927 13,6 | her (ver, 15ff). When she dies the same evening the people 928 15,4 | seven-branched lampstand, which differed from that in the Temple 929 13,0 | it back into the house, dig through the wall (built 930 13,4 | his hearers; he must first digest and assimilate it, making 931 1,8 | uities, learn to do good, diligently seek judgment, deliver him 932 11,6 | we may see In Jeremiah a dim foreshadowing of our Lord.~ ~ 933 15,4 | air. Since these are the dimensions of the Holy Place in the 934 17,2 | away, but that does not diminish the clear-sightedness by 935 13,3 | is, apparently at least, diminished. He becomes the recorder 936 14,1 | reasons for the rapidly diminishing regard for the prophet.~ 937 3,6 | circumference of the city by Diodorus Siculus, who estimated 938 11,4 | earliest prophecies are directed mainly against the idolatry 939 6,0 | ments point in the same direction. Once we accept the Isaianic 940 15,4 | had ridden out in three directions (west of Palestine is the 941 18,3 | not in the Qinah metre, a dirge-like note is struck by the assonances 942 18,1 | of five lamentations, or dirges, over the destruction of 943 6,4 | only do Babylon and Cyrus disappear, but even in one sense Israel; 944 6,1 | Deutero-Isaiah.”~ Assyria has disappeared. Nineveh fell to the confederate 945 15,5 | perhaps his life. To hide the disappointment the prophecy was distorted 946 7,7 | spiritual one is doomed to disappointment.~ 6:1-8 introduces us to 947 6,1 | Ezra 1, 2). Obstacles and disappointments led to religious laxness, 948 1,8 | Jer. 9:1-18).~And when the disasters befell them and unheard‑ 949 16,4 | so to act.~ 4) There was disbelief in the reality of Jehovah’ 950 11,5 | from the north, ready to discharge its contents over Judali 951 14,1 | revelation but of learning and discipline.~ ~ 952 17,3 | this city because of the discord among the Judean leaders. 953 18,0 | commandment, during His parting discourse with His disciples: A new 954 6,7 | circles that the manuscript discoveries at the Dead Sea have disproved 955 1,7 | cannot be explained away by discovering a spiritual application 956 14,1 | mechanical means for the discovery of God’s will, whether through 957 17,2 | rabbis were very conscious of discrepancies, real or apparent, in the 958 13,1 | 17.~ We do not intend to discuss the various identifications 959 13,0 | only be mentioned, but not discussed, here. There are a number 960 14,2 | above, we see no point in discussing the matter. Those interested 961 5,5 | points may be especially disentangled from Hosea’s prophecy.~ 962 6,8 | therefore shall I not be disgraced” (Is. 50:4-7), compare to 963 16,4 | her] even if she spoiled a dish for him, for it is written, 964 11,3 | the chronologically rather disjointed picture we have of Jeremiah. 965 7,2 | difficult by the possibility of dislocation in the order of verses in 966 16,5 | Judgment (3:13-4:3).~ Since the disloyal element in the people exists 967 11,8 | does not mean that we must dismiss the nationalistic setting 968 17,4 | all that, it should not be dismissed offhand. The book is unique 969 1,8 | stretched forth My hands to a disobedient and gainsaying people” ( 970 4,1 | 3-6.~1 — Ch. 3. Social Disorder.~2 — Ch. 4:1-3. Judgment 971 6,2 | New Testament necessarily dispel such a view, for the at 972 18,0 | come just before dawn were dispersed when the Sun shone forth. 973 15,4 | not have awakened God’s displeasure.~ The Angel of Jehovah has 974 14,4 | resources of his kingdom at his disposal seven and a half years to 975 17,9 | remarkable, and it rather disposes of the argument of some 976 5,7 | is given to the priests’ disregard of the law of which they 977 16,4 | 1) There was the gross disrespect shown to Jehovah (1:6-14) 978 13,6 | numbers the period from the disruption of the kingdom under Rehoboam 979 6,2 | is comparatively easy to dissect “Deutero-Isaiah,” after 980 11,9 | imply either ignorance or dissent.~ ~ 981 6,8 | woe is concerned with the dissolute nobles of Jerusalem. 28: 982 4,2 | for half tones, for fine distinctions between light and dark. 983 11,5 | replace inspiration, the distinguishing of true from false prophets 984 11,9 | externals in religion that distracted men from the inner truth. 985 17,3 | would expect a more even distribution of them. If, however, the 986 17,3 | Of less importance is the divergence on the question whether 987 15,2 | that prophet. Modern widely diverging views may be roughly classified 988 16,4 | find another husband. These divorces were just treachery. Since 989 18,2 | wither, And in whatsoever he doeth he shall prosper. (Ps. 1: 990 17,9 | that every detailed and dogmatic interpretation should 991 5,3 | here becomes explicit and dominating. It would be difficult 992 9,1 | suggest that Assyria was still dominant in the West. Her power crumbled 993 6,1 | formed a triple alliance dominating the Near East.~ Jerusalem 994 9,1 | one thought of the coming downfall of Nineveh “the bloody city.” 995 7,7 | a prayer (7:14-17) and a doxology (7:18ff).~ With these notes 996 17,3 | Syrian language” in 2:4 dp not mean that Daniel spoke 997 1,8 | make it a dwelling place of dragons, and I will utterly lay 998 10,2 | the prophet throws himself dramatically into the past” (Lanchester: 999 7,4 | The section closes with a drastic prophecy of the complete 1000 6,5 | commentary on Isaiah by Drechsler and Hahn, 1857.).~ One of