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1001 13,5 | Ezekiel’s make-up.~ The use of dried cow’s dung (4:15) for fuel 1002 15,7 | such prophecies the general drift is clear enough, but detailed 1003 12,3 | see Exod 6:1 (let go, i.e. drive out). The former is what 1004 12,2 | may well have already been driven from her old territory ( 1005 14,7 | seems to have been the driving force behind the rebuilding. 1006 4,2 | Jerusalem on the brink of the drop down to the Dead Sea lay 1007 3,5 | God for saving him from drowning — hence the language 1008 6,8 | Jerusalem; ver. 9f is their drunken answer in broken Hebrew; 1009 4,4 | immature animals (6:4), the drunkenness and indolence had all been 1010 6,7 | Zoroastrian, a believer in a dualism in which light and good 1011 16,4 | people were withholding His dues from God (3:7-12). There 1012 13,5 | 26) by making the prophet dumb, though from time to time 1013 13,5 | The use of dried cow’s dung (4:15) for fuel is common 1014 13,6 | that Ezekiel placed the duration of the exile at forty years. 1015 8,3 | is seen through a haze of dust (cf. pp. 51, 115).~ The 1016 5,5 | whether we render by love, dutiful love (Cheyne), loyal love ( 1017 13,2 | people, among whom Jehovah dwells (43:2-5; 48:35), cannot 1018 1,8 | where the Saviour first dwelt on earth and appeared to 1019 6,8 | celebrating God’s sovereignty. The dying leper king symbolized to 1020 17,3 | Persian king Artaxerxes of the dynasty Archaemenidae in 453 BC. 1021 13,1 | unprovoked assault, seem to be eager to share in the spoils ( 1022 3,3 | Jehovah to Tarshish, and so earned for himself the stinging 1023 15,3 | through with that deep moral earnestness that is never far distant 1024 4,2 | prophecy of the coming earthquake (8:8; 9:5) — a prophecy 1025 13,9 | that it leaves the city eastward may well suggest that it 1026 13,0 | action, in which Ezekiel eats his meals, carefully weighing 1027 18,1 | Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther); the order within 1028 4,2 | in 765 B.C). and a total eclipse of the sun (5:20 — 763 B.C. 1029 7,7 | system as a whole against the economic background of the time that 1030 1,4 | professional prophets, with their ecstasies and dreams (Jer. 23:25), 1031 14,2 | strengthened the original edict of Cyrus (Ezra 6:6-12), 1032 18,0 | and an abundance of moral edification. Eternal truths about God, 1033 18,1 | assumption is considered to be “edifying,” and the modernist one 1034 Intro | are to the sixth and later editions.~ Finegan — Finegan: Light 1035 1,3 | perhaps be better to say editors — may well have been prophets 1036 17,8 | above) and that the more educated present had no difficulty 1037 16,2 | he deliberately wished to efface himself (See HDB and ISBE, 1038 17,7 | Daniel was an old man of over eighty, and it is easy to see why 1039 18,1 | Lamentations, but normally Ekah, i.e. How — the first word 1040 6,1 | prince of Anshan — part of Elam, due east of Babylon (Isa. 1041 13,1 | twelve or thirteen years elapse (see above on ch. 33). If 1042 16,3 | intermediate shades, not to elect, not to love, was to hate.~ ~ 1043 5,3 | religion has been given by the Elephantine Papyri, Finegan, p. 201, 1044 11,1 | Shiloh (presumably after Eli’s death, I Sam, 4:18), and 1045 11,0 | than a king of his choice, Eliakim or Jehoiakim (IIKings 23: 1046 14,1 | when doubts arose as to the eligibility of some of the priests that 1047 4,6 | Deut. 14:28; 26:12) and Elkanah’s practice (ISam. 1:3, 21) 1048 9,2 | that Elkosh is the modern Elkush, a village in Iraq about 1049 17,9 | Very few who lightheartedly embark on prophetic speculation 1050 11,4 | background, not wishing to embarrass a king he respected so highly ( 1051 4,3 | religious law, but the former is embedded in the latter. It is a leading 1052 3,3 | a loving kindness which embraced all His creation.~ This 1053 10,2 | based on subjective textual emendation and need not be considered 1054 11,4 | city, that Jeremiah could emerge again, vindicated as a prophet 1055 6,6 | Israel still has the preeminence in the use of “inheritance,” 1056 Intro | views of others however eminent.~ In fairness to my non-technical 1057 11,2 | 17:19-27, and his clear emphasis that there would be sacrifices 1058 14,1 | before the exile. This was emphasized by the failure to obtain 1059 18,3 | artificial nature of the metre employed in these poems that has 1060 18,3 | as the first two.~ Ch. 5 employs normal Hebrew parallelism 1061 15,4 | mean that the oil is being emptied out of the bowl not merely 1062 6,3 | Israel, goes far toward emptying them of their full meaning.~ ~ 1063 14,6 | with a further message of encouragement (cf. 2:10 with 1064 4,5 | purpose was obviously to enable the Israelite who had no 1065 11,7 | 9, 11). This conviction enabled him to stand against the 1066 Intro | I had chosen your preference, I should have sacrificed 1067 1,8 | from Jacob... For God hath enclosed them all in disobedience, 1068 14,5 | left to compare. Haggai encourages the people by telling them:~ 1069 Intro | International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia — 5 vols; an American 1070 17,9 | book because we are in the end-time. When that comes, we may 1071 13,0 | the Judaean kingship had ended with Jehoiachin’s exile. 1072 18,3 | by the assonances of the endings -u, -nu, -anu, -enu, -inu, - 1073 6,8 | personal sins and holy, endures all these sufferings for 1074 1,8 | to make His power known, endureth with much long suffering 1075 4,2 | will have had the power to enforce his demands (7:10-13). But 1076 16,4 | about divorce but their enforcement in their true spiritual 1077 6,8 | seven eyes; behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith 1078 16,4 | gifts of His love will be enjoyed as well.~ ~ 1079 14,2 | Cyrus was a man of most enlightened character, it was as a world 1080 11,6 | 6). Quite apart from the enormity of their attempted action, 1081 3,6 | walls, must have seemed enormous. While “three days’ journey” 1082 11,7 | been broken and the slaves enslaved once more. Jeremiah immediately 1083 6,1 | back.). (b) Chs. 38-39. Entanglement with Babylon (looking forward).~ 1084 11,4 | restrained (36:5, R.V., mg). from entering the temple, presumably 1085 13,0 | the conditional element enters in here too? Did Judah in 1086 11,6 | of deceiving or, better, enticing (mg). him. The word stresses 1087 17,3 | In this prophecy, the entire time from the decree to 1088 13,7 | at the north, or popular entrance to the inner court. This 1089 18,3 | endings -u, -nu, -anu, -enu, -inu, -unu no less than 1090 11,2 | reality in Jerusalem. He thus enunciates the principle that all outward 1091 3,3 | Old Testament against its Environment, p. 13). Their belief in 1092 3,7 | importance to him of a mere ephemeral plant what God’s creation 1093 13,2 | never forget that when the epigram declares, “Jeremiah 1094 13,2 | though expressed with typical epigrammatic exaggeration.~ At first 1095 9,2 | attributed, perhaps wrongly, to Epiphanius (fourth century A.D.), a 1096 18,3 | of two or more lines of equal length, we have long lines 1097 17,1 | language, for ver. 27 clearly equates him with “the people of 1098 13,7 | Sheol is in all respects equivalent to the grave. Those 1099 17,3 | Holies (Christ), who will erase lawlessness, bring eternal 1100 17,3 | sins sealed and lawlessness erased so that eternal truth would 1101 1,8 | O the depths of the riches, both of the wisdom and 1102 16,3 | mirrored here see p. 96.~ “But Esau I hated” (ver. 3) — as Snaith 1103 3,4 | from judgment.~ In order to escape Jehovah’s compulsion Jonah 1104 8,3 | 6:8), Isaiah’s remnant, escaping the coming wrath (cf. Isa. 1105 8,3 | typically vague language of eschatology, where everything is seen 1106 17,6 | of which Enoch and II Esdras (the latter in the Apocrypha) 1107 5,3 | never Baal worshippers: Eshbaal, Saul’s son, and Meribbaal 1108 1,3 | the omission of apparent essentials.~ This thought of Jehovah 1109 1,2 | that does not necessarily establish his credentials (Deut. 13: 1110 18,6 | should be restored to his old estate.~ This lament stands out 1111 6,8 | despised, and we did not esteem Him. Surely He has borne 1112 6,8 | carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by 1113 18,1 | Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther); the order within this 1114 3,6 | by Diodorus Siculus, who estimated it at about 60 miles ( 1115 6,8 | ISam. 6:19; IISam. 6:6ff. et al. (Obviously the people 1116 8,4 | Assyria to the north and the Ethiopians to the south. Ethiopia is 1117 17,7 | likely that Daniel was made a eunuch (see 1:3, and much early 1118 17,3 | was to suffer and die. The Evangelist Luke writes that the Lord 1119 4,6 | merely is God’s justice even-handed — the inference from the 1120 6,9 | there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16:8-11). In the prophet 1121 8,6 | that we should read with Ewald: ~ Beyond the rivers of 1122 6,2 | phenomena of the book are examined more closely, the more difficult 1123 11,2 | Circumcision in HDB and ISBE. The excavations at Ras Shamra have 1124 11,2 | but since the Ras Shamra excavations the argument has been dropped. 1125 1,2 | law-giver as the prophet par excellence (Deut. 18:15; 34:10). ~ 1126 15,3 | figure. Davidson defines Him excellently, “The Angel of the Lord 1127 5,7 | reverence — was, “They have exchanged My glory for shame,” i.e. 1128 6,8 | thou forsaken me?” — so exclaimed the Lord before His death, 1129 11,6 | nation, his life in danger, excluded from the worship of the 1130 17,9 | explanations are mutually exclusive. It is remarkable, too, 1131 11,7 | in which Israel is used exdusively of the Northern Kingdom 1132 6,8 | have stood the unavoidable execution as a consequence for breaking 1133 11,6 | not the identity of Plis executioners; that was to come later.~ 1134 17,9 | when he says, “The full exegetical exposition of the Book of 1135 17,2 | supposing that this does not exhaust its meaning, for it is clearly 1136 17,9 | imply that the past has exhausted the meaning of any part 1137 1,8 | his writings, we find an exhaustive interpretation of the Old 1138 18,3 | however, indicating the break. Exigencies of translation more 1139 6,1 | Dan. 5).~ Cyrus gave the exiled Jews permission to return 1140 6,3 | those scholars who accept an exilic date for it, viz., the vagueness 1141 7,7 | Micah the tendency was to expand rather than cut down the 1142 3,6 | on their tells the wide expanse of Nineveh, including even 1143 11,4 | suggests that he had been expecting it. His only protest was 1144 11,0 | opposition to Pharaoh Necho’s expedition in 609 (IIKings 23:29). 1145 11,4 | Jerusalem, nor would the expelled high priest have been allowed 1146 14,2 | the matter of covering the expenses (Ezra 6:4). This worked 1147 6,8 | testimonies of orthodox Hebrew experts of the Holy Scriptures are 1148 12,2 | would go a long way towards explaining why this, by far the shortest 1149 1,7 | unfulfilled” prophecies without explanatory comment is ample evidence 1150 3,3 | deity” has been largely exploded (Cf. Wright: The Old Testament 1151 Intro | agree with my views and expositions.~ The dates given may not 1152 17,9 | the book, and is not fully expounded in it… (Lattey: The Book 1153 16,4 | now to stand alone as the expounder of the already revealed 1154 10,5 | to bring together all the extant work of Habakkuk. While 1155 16,4 | wherever the dispersion extended (ver. 11). This famous verse 1156 6,1 | Babylon (Isa. 41:2) — was extending his power over Persia. Alarmed, 1157 1,2 | and that its significance extends beyond the prophet’s own 1158 14,5 | affirmed, thus confirming that extensive repair rather than a new 1159 11,7 | partly the desire for extra fighters. With the withdrawal 1160 11,2 | study than does prose to extract its full meaning.~ There 1161 16,4 | Testament and cannot fairly be extracted from the prophet’s language.~ 1162 6,7 | fear in accepting this, the extremest Old Testament statement 1163 1,5 | merely with the natural exuberance of Oriental language, but 1164 1,8 | desert; let the wilderness exult, and flower as the lily. 1165 1,8 | pour down tears, and your eyelids drops of water! (Jer. 9: 1166 6,9 | 7:13; Ps. 2, Ps. 132:11; Eze. 7:27; Dan. 7:13). For an 1167 14,2 | scholarly commentary on Ezr.-Neh. by Rudolph (in German) 1168 18,9 | sets out to give us every facet of the impact of God’s revelation 1169 13,8 | all that the exiles were facing a new beginning, when each 1170 5,2 | events of the time.~ These factors make the book peculiarly 1171 6,3 | conqueror, and he was bound to fade away into impotence, starved 1172 13,2 | the section itself, and fails to meet the objection that, 1173 11,1 | priests, and so received a fair trial. The evidence that 1174 5,1 | Chs. 1:10-2:23. Israel’s Faithlessness.~3 — Ch. 3. The Faithful 1175 18,9 | Purpose of Lamentations. ~ One fallacy that is widely held is that 1176 7,7 | whom the judgments have fallen. Then the prophet answers 1177 11,2 | Scriptures have become a falsehood. They need the inner power 1178 1,8 | adultery, and steal, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, 1179 4,4 | munity as a whole. It is our familiarity with the Psalter (and even 1180 11,0 | seems to have created a fanatical belief in this in the inviolability 1181 6,3 | is based on God’s Word.~ Fancy interpretations have been 1182 15,4 | Any linking with Daniel is far-fetched, and while some particular 1183 Intro | subject already. But certain far-reaching views on some of the prophetic 1184 6,0 | written on a large board and fastened outside Isaiah’s house 1185 17,1 | vision speaks of the final fates of the world, of the termination 1186 15,4 | no suggestion of personal fault on Joshua’s part. His priestly 1187 17,8 | Merodach or Marduk, his favourite god. The absence of Daniel 1188 4,7 | earlier denial of Jehovah’s favouritism (3:If). He not merely implicitly 1189 7,5 | mentioned, when the enemy to be feared in Micah’s day was Assyria? 1190 11,6 | Jeremiah appeared again, fearless and unshakable. There is 1191 5,7 | One of the most tragic features of Israel’s history is her 1192 11,4 | reformation is merely outward and feigned (3:10). That is why his 1193 18,2 | sublimeness of thought, by the felicitous use of words, by the striking 1194 5,5 | expects man to show his fellow-man (4:1; 12:6; perhaps 10:12). 1195 11,6 | from the society of his fellow-men (18:18-23), but also from 1196 6,8 | blood. The words about the female donkey and the ass’s colt 1197 11,6 | arc called to flee to the fenced cities, and especially to 1198 13,5 | is that the statutes referred to human sacrifice (cf. 1199 17,3 | began to ask God for this in fervent prayer. At the end of one 1200 14,6 | position with Tattenai by confessing that the work had ever come 1201 11,5 | certainly Josiah had his professional prophets (IIKings 23:2). 1202 1,8 | them; a wound, a bruise, a festering ulcer. they have not been 1203 13,3 | symbolism over-elaborate and farfetched, we must not forget that 1204 9,1 | attacked Nineveh, which feU in 612 B.C. Four years later 1205 11,1 | cause of the verdict. The fickle crowd sided for the tune 1206 17,2 | the book is dated earlier. Fiction that hopes to be accepted 1207 7,4 | repentance, otherwise unspecified, unless perhaps in IIChron. 1208 7,4 | covet their poor neighbours’ fields (2:1-5) supported by cruel 1209 6,4 | serpent, the basilisk and the fiery flying serpent are Assyrian 1210 18,2 | Canaanite poetry of the fifteenth century B.C. discovered 1211 17,1 | suggestion that the beasts fight with one another, and certainly 1212 11,7 | partly the desire for extra fighters. With the withdrawal of 1213 13,5 | is probably to be taken figuratively of the restraint of bitter 1214 14,1 | scholarship has done much to fill the gap between the Testaments, 1215 18,3 | second half continues and fills out the thought of the first 1216 15,4 | His priestly garments are filthy because he represents the 1217 15,4 | promises that Zerubbabel will finish building the Temple, it 1218 7,3 | reign of Ahaz, these verbal fireworks probably reflect the prophet’ 1219 11,9 | Jehoia-fum settled himself firmly on the throne than Jeremiah 1220 10,4 | contravene man’s sense of the fitness of things.~ 1. ver. 6ff 1221 16,6 | Repentance (4:4ff). ~ A fitting end to the prophetic books. 1222 18,7 | 21ff). The Fifth Lament.~ Fittingly the book closes with an 1223 6,5 | easier. They are: 63:7-10, fl-14, 15-19; 64:1-7, 8-12. Note 1224 9,3 | been handed down to us in a flawless condition. Equally we must 1225 1,8 | he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench; but 1226 6,3 | his own time, and not in fleeting glimpse, apocalyptic generalities 1227 13,0 | its fulfilment; Zedekiah’s flight by night (IIKings 25:4), 1228 11,4 | Whether the smiting was a flogging or just a blow it was a 1229 1,8 | Though ye bring fine flour, it is vain; incense is 1230 8,3 | of prosperity, while his flouting of the will of Jehovah and 1231 1,8 | the wilderness exult, and flower as the lily. And the desert 1232 13,2 | apart from the fact that it flows out of the peak of a very 1233 11,6 | God in even greater but fluctuating agony (20:7-18). He accused 1234 17,8 | spur-of-the-moment priestly explanation fobbed off on him. He argued shrewdly 1235 11,2 | message have been seen out of focus.~ The present form of the 1236 8,3 | Universal Judgment focused on Jerusalem (1:2-2:3). ~ 1237 11,9 | message, instead of being the focusi future hopes as in Isa. 1238 8,1 | 2:3. Universal Judgment focussed on Jerusalem.~2 — Gh. 2: 1239 6,2 | we seem to be moving in a fog in which we see figures 1240 11,1 | Jeremiah, and were only foiled by Ahikam; or did they appeal 1241 Intro | I have become the blind follower of none, and the only criticisms 1242 13,3 | The Folly and Treachery of Zedekiah ( 1243 6,8 | prophet Isaiah wrote it at the foot of Golgotha, even though, 1244 11,9 | list of chapters in the footnote is only approximately correct. 1245 Intro | The books mentioned in the footnotes have been chosen for the 1246 17,3 | Hebrew rabbis very often forbade their fellow countrymen 1247 13,6 | symbolism.~ Since it was forbidden to sow a field with more 1248 13,4 | none that more clearly and forcefully shows the union of divine 1249 12,2 | so until conquered and forcibly Judaized by John Hyrcanus, 1250 6,5 | though Cyrus sweeps to his fore-ordained goal, there is no transformed 1251 6,3 | for Zion, together with a fore-shadowing of what its result will 1252 1,2 | thesis of the Old Testament fore-teller with the New Testament forth-teller, 1253 15,3 | and sometimes even the foreground are vague, and exact interpretation 1254 13,8 | of the faithful on their foreheads (9:4). The Hebrew for “mark” 1255 5,4 | purpose in His command and His foreknowledge of its consequence. So 1: 1256 1,8 | 61:1‑2).~Does the prophet foresee that the Saviour will not 1257 6,5 | indeed inadequate in its foreseeing of the resurrection, but 1258 13,0 | prophetic passages which foretell the restoration of the Northern 1259 1,2 | the prophet as primarily a foreteller is alien to the thought 1260 13,0 | its use here; Solomon had forfeited his right to be king. For 1261 17,6 | author, it is a sham and a forgery, and we are seriously asked 1262 11,3 | that Jeremiah was never forgiven his outspoken words in the 1263 3,3 | overlooked or forgotten. Jonah forgot one of them, when he tried 1264 2,3 | never really introduced or formally explained. The Hebrew saw 1265 17,2 | the further ground — the formation of the Canon. When once 1266 | formerly 1267 11,7 | poetic pleadings with Israel, forming a spiritual whole. Israel 1268 15,4 | Jerusalem and there comes a comfortable message for the prophet ( 1269 1,2 | fore-teller with the New Testament forth-teller, should have saved us from 1270 6,8 | predictions about the Messiah’s forthcoming sufferings for our salvation.~ 1271 13,8 | things hot for them, the fortifications of the city would save them 1272 4,2 | to the Dead Sea lay the fortified village of Tekoa (For a 1273 5,3 | is still uncertain, but fortunately it is not necessary; only 1274 Intro | Prophets simply and straightforwardly and to reap the spiritual 1275 13,4 | would be the same whether he fought against the current or swam 1276 14,6 | there was no need to lay foundations. Then the Hebrew is far 1277 17,2 | message, in whose truth he profoundly believed, more readily accepted. 1278 17,7 | he will have been about fourteen.~ It seems likely that Daniel 1279 4,4 | rich held nothing of the fox’s rejection of the grapes 1280 18,0 | Church's Heritage (Fr. M. Pomazansky).~“The shadow 1281 17,3 | three periods. The time frames of each period are measured 1282 5,1 | People.~2 — Chs. 5:8-6:6. Fratricidal Strife.~3 — Chs. 6:7-7:7. 1283 4,4 | 8a, cf. Exod. 22:26f) and fraud (8:5b). Then there are injustice, 1284 15,4 | who frighten them away — fray (ver. 21) is too weak. God 1285 13,0 | Ezekiel proclaims the complete freeing of the land from intrusive 1286 11,4 | proof to Jeremiah of his friendlessness- Whether the smiting was 1287 15,4 | smiths are too precise) who frighten them away — fray (ver. 21) 1288 11,6 | beast infested jungle that fringes the stream) (For a description 1289 1,5 | his hiding of stones in front of Pharaoh’s palace (43: 1290 13,0 | and its restoration to the fruitfulness which had been God’s original 1291 11,3 | impossible to know, and fruitless to guess, by how much the 1292 14,2 | the Jews found it easy to frustrate the decree of Cyrus about 1293 13,8 | had been prepared for the fugitive’s coming by the removal 1294 13,2 | showed him that he was to fulfil his priestly vocation by 1295 17,3 | bring eternal truth and fulfill all the prophecies. The 1296 1,8 | Isaiah (Is. 11: 10).~The fulfillment of these hopes is linked 1297 17,2 | foreshadowing of him who finally fulfills the vision when the Antichrist 1298 13,7 | partly explain the suspended fulfilments we referred to in ch. I.~ 1299 13,1 | part the book consists of full-length addresses or writings. The 1300 1,7 | Very many prophecies find a fuller meaning and fulfilment in 1301 6,9 | life: in Thy presence is fulness of joy; at Thy right hand 1302 17,8 | possible to gather all the high functionaries of state together in one 1303 11,8 | that the message of God’s fury has become a burden within 1304 6,5 | One of the greatest gains of recent scholarship has 1305 1,8 | hands to a disobedient and gainsaying people” (Rom. 9:22‑27; 30‑ 1306 1,8 | Then there appeared a whole galaxy of persons to console them 1307 9,2 | possible support for Nahum’s Galilean origin is found in the name 1308 15,1 | 1-8.~1 — Gh. 1:1-6. The Gall to Repentance.~2 — Ch. 1: 1309 16,2 | certainly correct in regarding the book as anonymous, and 1310 6,8 | succumb from anguish and gasping. Are You reconciled to that? 1311 15,4 | the popular idea of the gate of heaven) in form as chariots, 1312 17,8 | 17:3-9, this latter abrogated at least in part by Deut. 1313 7,2 | the Philistine plain, near Gath.1 While Isaiah depicts the 1314 6,8 | and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Binding 1315 18,6 | and a call to God for vengeance on his enemies (vers. 58- 1316 11,0 | should do after the murder of Gedaliah (42:1-6), he spent ten days 1317 17,3 | of Daniel. The rabbi of Gemar even subjected those Hebrews, 1318 18,3 | indicating the break. Exigencies of translation more often 1319 5,3 | Baal, but the less read genealogies of Chronicles have preserved 1320 8,2 | This is suggested by his genealogy being carried back to his 1321 6,2 | book ends with a less homogeneous section (chs. 56-66 — Trito-Isaiah) 1322 6,3 | fleeting glimpse, apocalyptic generalities or symbolism, but in clear 1323 17,3 | precise prediction into a generalization of relatively small evidential 1324 8,4 | love for the concrete. The generalized language of 1:2f is replaced 1325 1,6 | slight importance for later generations. We may be sure that the 1326 1,8 | bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. He shall not cry, nor lift 1327 1,8 | in the light of meekness, gentleness, humility, righteousness. 1328 6,3 | viz., the vagueness of its geographical background. While 1329 13,4 | There is not even a suggestion that they were sent in writing 1330 14,1 | time the story clearly suggests that Ezra was no innovator; 1331 11,0 | Jeremiah’s answer is put together, though 42:19-22 is obviously 1332 6,8 | Christ, that the reader gets the impression that the 1333 7,7 | minimum. “From Shittim to Gil-gal” refers to the crossing 1334 11,0 | when he went up to Ramoth Gilead and perished (IKings 22: 1335 10,3 | residue of wrath shalt thou gird upon thee” (as an ornament), 1336 11,3 | of Jeremiah’s fine linen girdle is told. There is, however, 1337 11,6 | 16 of the seducing of a girl. It is deliberately one 1338 16,4 | no favour in his eyes…” (Gitting, ix, 10) is a legal argument. 1339 10,3 | 2) “one may read it at a glance” (Moffatt): “Behold, his 1340 6,7 | the coming Messiah gives a gleam of light in the spiritual 1341 11,8 | Jeremiah who is commanded to glean the remnant of Judah as 1342 5,2 | Hosea the son of Beeri is gleaned from his book. His prophecies 1343 6,3 | time, and not in fleeting glimpse, apocalyptic generalities 1344 7,2 | general tone is much more gloomy than in chs. 1-3. There 1345 3,4 | antiquity in the Near East that gloried in cruelty, which they frequently 1346 1,8 | reference to the Lord's glorification of Jerusalem: Shine, shine, 1347 11,6 | the Holy Land, p. 483f; N. Glueck: The River Jordan, p. 63.).~ 1348 13,3 | give a handle to certain gnostic speculations.).~ ~ ~ ~ 1349 14,3 | spiritual logic. Once a God-fearing people was doing God’s will 1350 13,5 | sacrificial system was not God-given. However, in the light of 1351 4,4 | Northern sanctuaries were God-willed, whether the golden calf-images 1352 6,8 | 29, Tit). The Rabbi Moshe Goddarshan writes in the Midrash (the 1353 5,3 | god), his wife (an earth goddess) and their son.~ The prophetic 1354 5,3 | compounded with Baal. Equally the goddesses are referred to by the name 1355 13,7 | being chosen as representing godless commerce, and Egypt for 1356 5,5 | cloud, and as the dew that goeth away early;” and men (6: 1357 4,3 | the Flood and of Sodom and Gomorrah, in Abraham’s plea, “Shall 1358 13,4 | influenced by either the goodness or badness of his people. 1359 3,4 | called Tarshish would have got their name as main ports 1360 5,3 | Canaanites were fertility gods governing the growth of vegetation 1361 16,4 | unworthy of the Persian governor’s table (ver 8), and by 1362 16,2 | interval between Nehemiah’s two governorships, but this presupposes an 1363 6,7 | final glory, which are the gracious result of the inevitable 1364 13,0 | This is borne out by the gradual reconstruction and resuscitation 1365 13,2 | forget that when the epigram declares, “Jeremiah was 1366 1,8 | the mystical promise of granting Israel an eternal king. 1367 4,5 | Nazirites’ rejection of the grape-vine and all connected with it, 1368 6,3 | the vagueness of its geographical background. While the background 1369 13,7 | Those who have tried to grapple with the problems of Ezekiel’ 1370 1,1 | book, we shall profit by grasping the implications of books 1371 8,2 | the other hand it seems gratuitous to assume, as is generally 1372 13,0 | of the opening of their graves (ver. 12f) is explained 1373 6,8 | behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the Lord 1374 8,2 | being carried back to his great-great-grandfather (1:1). In no other prophetic 1375 7,4 | particularly mentioned:~ a. The greedy landowners who covet their 1376 6,8 | Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; 1377 8,5 | hardly mentioned. However grievous the corrupt worship of Jerusalem, 1378 13,4 | This chapter has suffered grievously at the hand of those that 1379 4,4 | made possible only by the grinding of the face of the poor 1380 11,2 | subtly false rather than the grossly false in religion. No prophet 1381 13,7 | commerce, and Egypt for the grossness of its idolatry (cf. 16: 1382 1,8 | which comprise the last grouping of the books of the Old 1383 5,3 | consistently mistranslated grove in the A.V.), cf. Judges 1384 6,8 | been revealed? For He shall grow up before Him as a tender 1385 17,9 | yet unveiled future is a guarantee of God’s succour for 1386 11,0 | the House of Jehovah had guaranteed the inviolability of Jerusalem.~ ~ 1387 15,4 | would be the best way of guaranteeing the divine help.~ ~III. 1388 1,8 | cries to me out of Seir. Guard ye the bulwarks. I watch 1389 11,3 | to know, and fruitless to guess, by how much the second 1390 11,4 | but they can easily be guessed.~ After his solemn message 1391 9,2 | Helkesi in Galilee by Jewish guides, who claimed that it was 1392 1,8 | iniquity, neither is there guile in His mouth (Is. 53:1‑9).~ ~ 1393 16,4 | spread of Christianity. Linguistically this is entirely possible, 1394 10,3 | faith” in the Old Testament, Hab. 2:4 being one. In each 1395 6,5 | Isaiah by Drechsler and Hahn, 1857.).~ One of the greatest 1396 6,8 | them that plucked off the hair: I hid not My face from 1397 12,3 | almost certainly the two halves of ver. 15 have been transposed, 1398 14,3 | great material problems and hampered in rebuilding by being refused 1399 9,3 | assume that it has been handed down to us in a flawless 1400 11,0 | must have been to all but a handful of his subjects. The greater 1401 13,3 | because it seemed to give a handle to certain gnostic speculations.).~ ~ ~ ~ 1402 18,4 | she may see her enemies handled as she has been.~ It should 1403 11,0 | constantly reformed, yet ever hankered after his old idolatry ( 1404 1,8 | that hardness in part is happened to Israel, until the 1405 13,2 | 35), cannot be organized haphazardly. In even the smallest details 1406 5,7 | references to contemporary happenings which we cannot now interpret. 1407 11,4 | the book as a whole. It so happens that the three kings under 1408 13,7 | literally). This element may perhaps partly explain the suspended 1409 7,7 | would yield a yet bitterer harvest.~ ~ ~ ~ 1410 6,8 | of chs. 2-5. Though God hardens, there is an antecedent 1411 6,8 | Isaiah saw the people getting harder that he himself have fully 1412 17,8 | would have been little or no harm in Daniel and his friends 1413 4,5 | nations because they have harmed Israel, but because He is 1414 1,8 | This would seem to be too harsh a fate and too strict a 1415 1,8 | shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the stammerers 1416 14,6 | in time to be ready for harvest, so the sign was probably 1417 6,0 | curiosity. The strange phrase “Haste-spoil-speed-booty” is written on a large board 1418 Intro | Prophets, Vol. I or II.~ HDB — Hasting’s Dictionary of the Bible — 1419 8,3 | everything is seen through a haze of dust (cf. pp. 51, 115).~ 1420 13,3 | the background becoming hazy, or even virtually vanishing. 1421 12,1 | exposition of this view see HDD, article, Obadiah, Book 1422 14,4 | The response of the people headed by Zerubbabel seems to have 1423 16,2 | though not the later added headin) all fail to see a proper 1424 6,8 | And by His stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have 1425 1,8 | and unheard‑of woes were heaped upon them, the Babylonian 1426 Intro | widely known, at least by hearsay, that they could not be 1427 16,4 | bringing Him sacrifices without heart-respect ver. 7), of a quality unworthy 1428 6,8 | means altar-hearth, or hearth of God.~ The third woe is 1429 13,7 | killed off by the drought and heat of summer. So Ezekiel sees 1430 11,2 | worship of the abominations of heathenism. 7:31 makes it clear that 1431 3,7 | and threatened Jonah with heatstroke. In his depression the loss 1432 13,5 | It was used by the early Hebrew-Christians, and by some Gentile Christians, 1433 6,7 | vineyard. Hard on their heels follow the Assyrians, the 1434 11,0 | every evidence that this was heightened by the reform of religion 1435 9,2 | was shown the hamlet of Helkesi in Galilee by Jewish guides, 1436 6,9 | wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer 1437 11,4 | real evidence that Jeremiah helped in Josiah’s reformation, 1438 4,4 | the care of the weak and helpless into the hands of them that 1439 6,5 | disastrous for Judah that henceforth she remained a loyal vassal 1440 1,8 | Heralds of the New Testament~The 1441 17,7 | likely Dan’el), while the hero of our book spells his Daniyye’ 1442 18,3 | many conservative scholars hesitant to accept the traditional 1443 6,4 | removed (48:20, cf. with 52:Hf; 55:12).~ Cyrus was probably 1444 5,7 | was their leadership in highway robbery (6:9).~ A very old 1445 16,4 | Mishnah, “And the School of Hillel say: [He may divorce her] 1446 11,3 | their head to the Valley of Hinnom through the streets of Jerusalem. 1447 13,4 | Ezekiel that would even hint at Jeremiah’s contemporary 1448 6,5 | B.C. Rezin of Damascus, Hiram of Tyre, and Menahem of 1449 15,5 | 2:23), he did not think hirn the Messiah. The language 1450 17,7 | 20; 28:3) is a figure of hoar antiquity, probably mentioned 1451 17,2 | explanation. But the same argument holds if the book is dated earlier. 1452 4,4 | 2:11f), a pretentious, hollow worship (4:4f; 5:21ff), 1453 5,4 | translate in 3:2, “…even an homer of barley…”), i.e. half 1454 5,4 | back for one-and-a-half homers of barley, in value fifteen 1455 6,2 | The book ends with a less homogeneous section (chs. 56- 1456 17,6 | proved inconclusive. The honest verdict on the intellectual 1457 6,9 | wasted (ver. 15). Butter and honey are the food of a land where 1458 1,7 | Tyre was able to come to honourable terms. Ezekiel simply says 1459 1,8 | hath learned to speak falsehoods; they have committed iniquity 1460 14,5 | was not, as the exiles had hoped, the final one. Soon this 1461 1,8 | darkness and, it seemed, hopelessness had begun for the people. 1462 18,5 | ver. llff look back to the horrors of the siege, or whether 1463 15,4 | Jehovah, sitting on His horse “among the myrtle trees 1464 6,5 | captivity. Israel under Hoshea yielded at the cost of the 1465 6,5 | and the smiting of his host by the angel of the Lord 1466 17,7 | best families, probably as hostages, Daniel among them. The 1467 6,9 | here. Edom personifies the hostile nations in general. That 1468 5,7 | which had ceased to be the House-of-God.~ There are two references 1469 5,7 | ing House-of-vanity, or House-of-iniquity, to Beth-el, which had ceased 1470 5,7 | transfers its name, meaning House-of-vanity, or House-of-iniquity, to 1471 11,4 | shall be they of his own household” (Matt. 10:36). One of his 1472 14,3 | line with wood, their own houses (1:4). In the hills of Judaea 1473 17,1 | Old Testament books to the humanist, and a chief centre of his 1474 8,3 | see the small number of humble (2:3; better than “meek,” 1475 17,1 | fire.~4 — Gh. 4. God the Humbler of the proud.~5 — Gh. 5. 1476 7,7 | Hosea.~· to walk humbly with thy God, i.e. as befits 1477 14,5 | technical meaning more than a hundred years earlier, the more 1478 13,4 | of a prophet in Babylonia hurling his denunciations at the 1479 4,6 | by their demands on their husbands encourage them in their 1480 6,3 | firstborn!~ The second is a hymn (40:12-31) which is one 1481 2,4 | describes them in even more hyperbolical language, as they 1482 17,9 | less will it be a purely hypothetical picture of things yet future. 1483 12,2 | forcibly Judaized by John Hyrcanus, c. 125 B.C., thus opening 1484 18,4 | poet speaks in vers. 1-1 Ib, and describes the condition 1485 15,3 | Zechariah was the grandson of Iddo (1:1), a priest who returned 1486 13,1 | as a definite prophecy of identifiable nations, but rather as symbolic 1487 13,1 | intend to discuss the various identifications of the names in these chapters. 1488 11,8 | Jeremiah’s protest. Note how he identifies himself with God, so that 1489 18,0 | oneself. They constitute the ideological essence of the Old 1490 1,2 | future, or to satisfy man’s idle curiosity; there is normally 1491 1,8 | beauty. But His form was ignoble, and forsaken by all men; 1492 1,8 | not, brethren, that ye be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye 1493 11,6 | that it is probably best to ignore him. In any case some of 1494 18,3 | wonder whether the author had ihtended at some time to transform 1495 5,7 | sin and sin-offering, cf. IICor. 5:21, Rom. 8:3. When we 1496 11,4 | who will have already been ill-disposed to the prophet, thanks to 1497 18,0 | here revealed to mankind.~Illuminated by the light of the Gospel, 1498 2,6 | reaction to the people of God illuminates his true character and shows 1499 18,9 | God’s Spirit, that is not illumined by some book of the Bible.~ 1500 11,2 | remarkable picture from nature to illustrate the unnatural conduct of