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1501 17,2 | nearly so important as often imagined, for the modern scholar 1502 15,7 | acting allegorically (with an imaginary flock?), and sometimes 1503 15,4 | opened the door to various imaginative efforts that do not call 1504 11,3 | The story leaves us to imagine the huge crowd that will 1505 13,4 | well suppose that one so imbued with the priestly outlook 1506 11,5 | spirituality is so easily imitated, because book knowledge 1507 5,5 | burnt offerings.~ ~It is immaterial whether we render by love, 1508 4,4 | couches and the eating of immature animals (6:4), the drunkenness 1509 6,9 | God by His very essence is immortal. The immortality of the 1510 18,9 | give us every facet of the impact of God’s revelation on man. 1511 13,2 | prophecy.~ Finally, it seems imperative to regard the river of 47: 1512 12,3 | is the grim reality.~ The imperatives in ver. 12ff do not look 1513 11,5 | have made Isaiah almost impervious to opposition.~ Why Hilkiah 1514 3,3 | IKings 20:23).~ Another implication was that Jehovah was the 1515 5,3 | background that which was only implicit in Amos here becomes explicit 1516 6,3 | bound to fade away into impotence, starved as he was by the 1517 14,4 | 37f), the small body of impoverished people who had returned 1518 6,2 | modern view, and the many improbabilities it involves, it is surely 1519 11,4 | this will have been the impulse that finally prepared Jeremiah 1520 18,2 | translation into English either an inadequate reflexion of the original 1521 6,6 | sacrifices became an abomination.~ Note that the book ends, 1522 14,6 | reference being to the solemn inaugural ceremony which would have 1523 2,3 | could tell, might be its inauguration, the Day of the Lord is 1524 6,6 | identify them, for until the Incarnation who could have imagined 1525 17,2 | Historical Errors.” ~ Except incidentally we shall not refer to the 1526 17,9 | exposition we lack both space and inclination, so we have contented our 1527 6,5 | Egyptian intrigues increasingly inclined Hezekiah to revolt. Though 1528 1,8 | slumbering. These reproofs are incomparable in their force, in their 1529 6,5 | Assyrian records here are incomplete. For a full discussion see 1530 17,6 | controversy and study has proved inconclusive. The honest verdict on the 1531 3,5 | at least the psalm is so incongruous, that its later insertion 1532 17,4 | second-century date, and is not inconsistent with Daniel’s position; 1533 Intro | it is not that I am not indebted to many, but to too many, 1534 16,4 | Because he hath found in her indecency in anything. R. Akiba says: 1535 13,9 | the Davidic house. For an indeterminate period Israel is to have 1536 18,3 | lines, without, however, indicating the break. Exigencies of 1537 18,1 | respect, when we go beyond the indications of Scripture itself. There 1538 1,4 | described in Zech. 13:2-6. Amos indignantly refuses to be called a prophet, 1539 11,4 | a blow it was a supreme indignity for a man of aristocratic 1540 11,7 | yet for the prophet are indistinguishable. Obviously the sin above 1541 6,5 | but that the long list of individuals with whom he has been identified 1542 4,4 | 4), the drunkenness and indolence had all been made possible 1543 11,2 | for thinking that Baruch, indubitably the book’s chief editor, 1544 16,4 | their true spiritual sense, ine phrase “wife of thy youth” 1545 17,2 | important as often imagined, for the modern scholar 1546 Intro | has inevitably involved inequality of treatment between prophet 1547 13,0 | be a spiritual one, seems inescapable. While dogmatism is out 1548 6,3 | god and his people were inextricably bound together. The god ( 1549 13,2 | Jeremiah, and that he was an infant in arms, when Josiah’s reformation 1550 17,4 | That Daniel circulated in inferior MSS. is shown by the LXX 1551 15,3 | more is known or can be inferred from his prophecies about 1552 11,6 | Jordan is the wild beast infested jungle that fringes the 1553 6,5 | solely or even mainly to infidelity, as has been so often suggested, 1554 4,4 | himself to the rich and influential, to the rulers of the people. 1555 13,2 | duties; there is no definite information on the subject in 1556 13,2 | out of Judah.~ We have no information about his father, Buzi, 1557 7,6 | The last of these, as not infrequently, pictures the Messianic 1558 6,6 | the charge is unnatural ingratitude (vers. 2b, 3) — the ox and 1559 1,8 | so that they shall not be inhabited. Who is the wise man, 1560 1,8 | of Naphtali, and the rest inhabiting the seacoast, and the land 1561 6,6 | eminence in the use of “inheritance,” the difference has be 1562 1,8 | mine eyes, cease from your iniquities, learn to do good, 1563 1,8 | will be merciful to their iniquities, and I will remember 1564 6,1 | Babylon (Isa. 41:25).~ An initial attack on Babylon in 546 1565 11,4 | 18-12:6). The reason was injured family pride (11:21). Ever 1566 3,2 | does not need to be tied to ink and parchment. Decisive 1567 18,7 | could not plead personal innocence, it looks as though 1568 14,1 | suggests that Ezra was no innovator; he was merely giving ex 1569 11,5 | opposition.~ Why Hilkiah inquired of Huldah about the book 1570 6,4 | this we know from his own inscriptions. From those of Darius I, 1571 11,2 | Scripture makes the reader insensible to the Word of the Lord, 1572 18,0 | Testament Bible remains an inseparable part of the heritage of 1573 2,5 | comings of our Lord are inseparably connected, two phases of 1574 17,6 | not sufficient spiritual insight to recognize it as such. 1575 11,7 | speedy return, Jeremiah insisted that there was no hope until 1576 11,0 | knew for certain that the insistent voice of heart and mind 1577 11,2 | was sacrifice. Jeremiah insists that it is obedience (cf. 1578 1,8 | with a wooden saw), really inspire their people with these 1579 1,8 | What is it that especially inspires the prophets with bright 1580 6,8 | answered: yes, I agree. In that instant the Messiah gladly took 1581 11,8 | in stone or teachers to instruct men in it. Here was one 1582 10,3 | Assyrian by his being the instrument of God’s punishing (Isa. 1583 17,2 | grounds had in themselves been insufficient for the adoption of pseudonymity, 1584 10,4 | may refer to these wanton insults and cf. Dan. 5; 2.~ 5. ver. 1585 4,4 | in Israel was either the integrity of the judge or the power 1586 10,3 | but this is faith. The intellect is faced with moral problems 1587 11,5 | Jeremiah must have been intellectually certain all through the 1588 17,4 | problem that must face the intelligent reverent reader is not whether 1589 Intro | many parts are to be really intelligible to him. Then, too, the Church, 1590 13,1 | 12, 14, 17.~ We do not intend to discuss the various identifications 1591 7,7 | propitiated, suggesting an intensification of its sacrificial system ( 1592 14,1 | self-revelation in the past. This was intensified by the post-exilic community’ 1593 11,2 | them beyond the power of intercessory prayer is repeated in 11: 1594 15,3 | through some mere angelic intermediary.~ In the former section 1595 16,3 | old Hebrew there were no intermediate shades, not to elect, not 1596 9,3 | they are to Judah, they interrupt the address to Assyria. 1597 13,9 | mark a merely temporary interruption in the rule of the Davidic 1598 6,8 | with the Egyptian alliance, interspersed with promises of divine 1599 2,4 | only be explained as divine interventions in judgment. Whether or 1600 1,6 | preserved for us. They were so intimately connected with the circumstances 1601 6,0 | in Babylon to which 40-55 introduce us.~ It is not easy to reconcile 1602 7,7 | to disappointment.~ 6:1-8 introduces us to Jehovah’s controversy 1603 13,0 | freeing of the land from intrusive nations (36:1-7), and its 1604 18,3 | endings -u, -nu, -anu, -enu, -inu, -unu no less than 44 times.~ 1605 3,2 | the “kenosis” theory) is invalid, for He who had not the 1606 6,3 | There seems to be an inversion of order in these chapters ( 1607 Intro | mention would have been invidious.~ The way in which this 1608 17,1 | matters, the book seems to invite attack and to make the task 1609 13,0 | s new people must be one inwardly transformed. As in Jeremiah, 1610 6,1 | subdue the Greek cities of Ionia.~ Babylon was attacked in 1611 1,8 | depict the coming of the Saviour of the world. Before us, 1612 2,6 | judgment on Israel (cf. IPet. 4:17), but the reality 1613 15,3 | bodies and later with the new Iranian teaching of Zoroaster with 1614 9,2 | modern Elkush, a village in Iraq about 27 miles north of 1615 6,8 | the law that sin can be ironed out only through a redeeming 1616 10,4 | man. It is part of God’s irony that Babylon fell to Cyrus 1617 17,3 | Temple were conducted very irregularly, and finally, in the Temple, 1618 17,9 | apparently overwhelming and irresistible difficulties and opposition. 1619 18,0 | 1] The order in the LXX irresistibly suggests that this was the 1620 13,2 | taken literally — this is irrespective of whether a fulfilment 1621 4,1 | Inevitable Ruin.~5 — Ch. 5:IS-26. The Day of the Lord.~6 — 1622 16,2 | if it is abbreviated, as is-just possible, “The Messenger 1623 8,6 | the prophets their promises of restoration (cf. p. 34). 1624 5,3 | or Ashtaroth (Babylonian Ishtar, Greek Astarte) or occasionally 1625 15,4 | larger than any man’s optimism (ver. 4) but rather that 1626 6,5 | sense. The effect of this isolation is to make a personal interpretation 1627 15,4 | winds (or spirits) of heaven issue out between the mountains 1628 17,3 | restoration of Jerusalem was issued by the Persian king Artaxerxes 1629 1,8 | they shall not be inhabited. Who is the wise man, that 1630 4,4 | ornaments (Isa. 3:16-23), the ivory couches and the eating of 1631 16,4 | in his eyes…” (Gitting, ix, 10) is a legal argument. 1632 6,9 | Messiah, p. 21ff, and E. J-Young: Studies in Isaiah, chs. 1633 Intro | use of “Jehovah.” Though Jahveh, or Yahweh, whichever you 1634 6,8 | consequence for breaking the law” (Jalkut Chadach, fol. 154, col 4, 1635 5,7 | interpretations of king Jareb of Assyria (5:13; 10:6) 1636 13,7 | image which made Jehovah jealous (ver. 3ff), placed at the 1637 11,0 | but a handful of his subjects. The greater must have been 1638 5,7 | closes with the picture of Jehovah’s love triumphant over 1639 13,4 | over the kings of Judah: Jehoahaz (19:1-4), Jehoiakim-Jehoiachin, 1640 11,2 | in these early years of Jehoiakim’s reign, Jeremiah’s 1641 11,9 | Josiah lived. No sooner had Jehoia-fum settled himself firmly on 1642 13,4 | Judah: Jehoahaz (19:1-4), Jehoiakim-Jehoiachin, probably considered as 1643 2,6 | the fourth century A.D.). Jehoshaphat means “Jehovah judges,” 1644 2,6 | likely that the valley of Jehoshaphat (vers. 2, 12) belongs to 1645 11,1 | from the fourth year of Jehpiakim after the battle of Carchemish, 1646 14,7 | rebuilding. By doing this he jeopardized his official position (cf. 1647 11,8 | partial (Heb. 1:1) and so Jeremiah did not rise to the 1648 13,1 | their approbation to the jerry-built walls of man’s making (see 1649 6,5 | of Israel, the narrower Jeshurun (44:2), the centre Christ ( 1650 16,4 | the better elements in Jewry were always against it. 1651 4,3 | 21 (note that Ahab’s and Jezebel’s judicial murder of Naboth 1652 9,2 | deportations by the Assyrians (cf. JIChron. 30:1, 5f, lOf, 18; 34:6f).~ 1653 2,2 | date early in the reign of Joash of Judah (i.e. shortly after 1654 13,1 | see above on ch. 33). If Josephus is to be trusted, chs. 40- 1655 12,1 | Nebuchadnezzar in 586 II jr. fit the picture, for those 1656 6,5 | from Israel. But with the jubilant call to Israel to leave 1657 6,8 | the Lion of the tribe of Juda” (Rev. 5:5). The following 1658 17,3 | prophecy is this: for the Judaic nation and for the holy 1659 14,1 | Pharisaism and Rabbinic Judaism, was that in the Law as 1660 12,2 | conquered and forcibly Judaized by John Hyrcanus, c. 125 1661 11,5 | discharge its contents over Judali and Jerusalem. The stress 1662 1,2 | by that name, e.g. Enoch (Jude 14), Abraham (Gen. 20:7), 1663 2,2 | prophecy that he lived in Judea. The order of the Minor 1664 17,3 | the tragic fate of many Judeans remaining in the city. The 1665 4,7 | individual, and ultimately His judgments are individual judgments.~ ~ 1666 6,8 | cleansing of the raiments in the juice of the grapes also speak 1667 11,6 | the wild beast infested jungle that fringes the stream) ( 1668 13,0 | though linguistically justifiable, misses the meaning. It 1669 9,1 | situation in Judah hardly justifies our assuming a date earlier 1670 7,2 | sections will be that of later juxtaposition because of spiritual 1671 7,7 | nexion is merely one of juxtaposition. The prophecy ends with 1672 15,7 | satisfactorily explained.~ k) 13:1-6. The cleansing of 1673 3,2 | Phil. 2:7, R.V. — the “kenosis” theory) is invalid, for 1674 9,2 | in the name Capernaum = Kephar Nahum, i.e. Village of Nahum. 1675 1,1 | Neviim (Prophets), and Ketuvim (Writings). The second section, 1676 2,6 | identification with the Kidron valley (though this is at 1677 11,4 | more widespread plot to kill him. The motives are not 1678 11,2 | these early years of Jehoiakim’s reign, Jeremiah’s main 1679 2,4 | 4) are either different kinds of locusts, or more probably 1680 4,6 | ver. 3 is correct.~ The kine of Bashan (4:1) are of course 1681 6,5 | Messianic figure in which kingly, priestly and prophetic 1682 15,2 | Driver, LOT, pp. 348-355; Kirk-patrick, pp. 442-456; for the extreme 1683 1,8 | strong ye hands and palsied knees. Comfort one another, ye 1684 18,2 | in Proverbs:~For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: 1685 1,2 | 7; Jer. 23:18, 22), from knowing God and speaking with Him ( 1686 1,8 | world is filled with the knowledge of the Lord (Is. 11: 1687 11,7 | 22; 37:11-21; 32, 33; 38:l-28a; 39:5-18; 38:28b-39:14.~ 1688 16,1 | By the People.~b) Ch.2:l-9. By the Priests.~2 — Ch. 1689 16,4 | to bribe the people (ver. l0ff). It is prophetic logic 1690 6,8 | His hand. He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied. 1691 9,2 | of Simeon, perhaps near Lachish.~ Sentiment might make us 1692 17,4 | he was taken captive as a lad. This is amply adequate 1693 12,1 | from Ezek. 35, Ps. 137:7; Lam. 4:21f, the Edomites did 1694 1,8 | and He shall gather the lambs with His arm and hold them 1695 1,8 | shall hear. Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and 1696 7,4 | mentioned:~ a. The greedy landowners who covet their poor neighbours’ 1697 4,2 | For a description of the landscape see G. A. Smith, I, p. 74.), 1698 6,5 | then opposition quickly collapsed. An Egyptian army was decisively 1699 6,6 | pleading her regular and large-scale temple worship in her defence, 1700 11,1 | 33 though 46:13-28 may be later-come from the fourth year of 1701 1,1 | Prophets is first found in the Latin Churches, and Augustine 1702 6,8 | verse: “All that see Me laugh Me to scorn,” compare to 1703 9,3 | strong reaction from the lavish textual reconstruction of 1704 1,2 | Moses is not so much the law-giver as the prophet par excellence ( 1705 6,5 | Israel, and at the very Law-Mount they sinned, worshipping 1706 6,8 | depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until 1707 1,8 | full of sins, an evil seed, lawless children... Why should ye 1708 6,1 | disappointments led to religious laxness, and these conditions may 1709 13,3 | symbolic, as indeed was the lay-out of the Temple, and so symbolism 1710 17,9 | contented ourselves with laying down certain general principles 1711 5,7 | better how terrible was their leadership in highway robbery (6:9).~ 1712 18,2 | and metaphorical: Whose leaf also doth not wither, And 1713 11,5 | a huge, boiling cauldron leaning over from the north, ready 1714 15,4 | Zechariah sees a great sheet of leather 30’ by 15’ (the roll was 1715 4,6 | custom. If so the use of leaven on the altar (4:5 mg.) will 1716 4,6 | According to Lev. 7:13 leavened cakes were part of the sacrifice 1717 13,9 | of God had been gradually leaving the defiled temple and city, 1718 6,2 | follows an anonymous collection of prophecies (chs. 40-55 — 1719 15,6 | Jerusalem authorities. This ledd to a series of four prophetic 1720 17,7 | to Palestine.~ Apart from legends of no value, we have no 1721 17,3 | of Jerusalem by the Roman legions, complete chaos ruled this 1722 4,6 | Since by the Deuteronomic legislation the third year was of special 1723 18,1 | former to a higher plane of legitimacy.~ ~ 1724 14,6 | phrase could probably be legitimately translated “since the day 1725 13,4 | has been vigorously challenged, even by conservatives ( 1726 9,1 | They reveal to us the awful lengths that man’s cruelty and wrongdoing 1727 13,7 | is in all respects equivalent to the grave. Those who 1728 6,6 | There was a Jewish temple at Leontopolis from 160 B.C. to A.D. 72, 1729 6,8 | s sovereignty. The dying leper king symbolized to him the 1730 13,1 | Chs. 38, 39). ~ Instead of letting themselves be guided by 1731 13,4 | Ezekiel was of the tribe of Levi, the term Israel was the 1732 3,7 | doubtless a picture to Jonah of Leviathan, the monster lord of chaos, 1733 14,1 | proportionate number of priests, Levites and ecclesiastical persons, 1734 16,4 | marriage of long standing; lf there had been anything 1735 11,8 | longing to be poured out. Ver. lib berins God’s answer — not “ 1736 11,0 | completely and absolutely at liberty (40:4f).~ With the World 1737 Intro | likely to be available in libraries.~ The chapters on the Major 1738 13,4 | view as unfounded, we believe it does furnish a clue to 1739 17,2 | all unless its date was believed to be as early as Ezra” ( 1740 14,1 | that might occur once in a life-time, had outgrown the need for 1741 1,6 | existence already during his lifetime. Isa. 8:16; 30:8 may well 1742 2,6 | teaching in Matt. 25:31-46 lifts this to the highest plane 1743 3,7 | black spirits were slightly lightened by a gourd which grew up 1744 17,9 | Visions. ~ Very few who lightheartedly embark on prophetic speculation 1745 15,4 | kept filled with oil, the lights were not dependent on human 1746 13,7 | should read with the LXX “a likeness as the appearance of a man.” 1747 6,9 | offered Ahaz any sign he likes that he may trust God, but 1748 1,8 | exult, and flower as the lily. And the desert places of 1749 11,9 | Jeremiah stepped into the limelight and stayed there, the best-hated 1750 11,8 | freed from every national limitation, does not mean that we must 1751 2,7 | Cross.~ Joel’s vision is limited to Judah and Jerusalem, 1752 16,4 | spread of Christianity. Linguistically this is entirely 1753 11,3 | story of Jeremiah’s fine linen girdle is told. There is, 1754 13,0 | stick” (ver. 16), though linguistically justifiable, misses the 1755 17,7 | man who was thrown to the lions. Daniel’s age is sufficient 1756 6,8 | people’s worship (“unclean lips”). The Israelite recognized 1757 13,4 | and that he will not be listened to. The Holy Spirit by returning 1758 17,3 | prophecy and warned His listeners, that, when they will see 1759 13,7 | their branch into My face” (lit., nose) — the present Hebrew 1760 13,2 | a unique combination of literalism and symbolism. While the 1761 13,2 | chosen by birth.~ From the literalist side no satisfactory explanation 1762 18,4 | Jerusalem. Then in vers. llc-16, Jerusalem herself speaks 1763 4,7 | fruit = qiats (cf. Jer. 1:llf, and p. 64).~ The sin of 1764 18,5 | is not clear whether ver. llff look back to the horrors 1765 3,3 | looked on Jehovah merely as a localized “tribal deity” has been 1766 12,4 | from our ignorance of the location of Sepharad and why it should 1767 13,0 | Assyria (Isa. 10:5f), and Babylon (Isa. 47:6), he had never 1768 13,4 | prophet, so hated and so lonely.~ ~ 1769 8,3 | superficial). So, as always, the long-suffering of God produced the belief 1770 6,6 | fulfilment of all that Israel had longed to be but never was. It 1771 7,3 | 8-16. This contains the longest sustained play upon words 1772 11,8 | come a burden within him longing to be poured out. Ver. lib 1773 13,2 | prophet’s vision the type loses itself in the fulfilment, 1774 4,4 | Israelite religion, while never losing sight of the individual, 1775 6,8 | garments among them, and cast lots upon My vesture,” compare 1776 18,0 | unshaken: that concerning loving God with all one's heart, 1777 5,4 | when Gomer left him for her lover. Either in sheer love or 1778 18,4 | ver. 7, R.V. Jerusalem’s lovers (vers. 2, 19) are the nations 1779 6,4 | 46:11), he whom Jehovah loves (48:14). But it is to be 1780 3,3 | life but its lord, and “He loveth all He made.”~ The idea 1781 6,5 | clearly, a Pyramid: its lowest basis is the whole of Israel; 1782 3,5 | entirely congruous. Even a landlubber like Jonah knew that this 1783 6,3 | fall of Satan is intended. Lucifer (14:12) means the morning 1784 6,9 | natural and future (See Lukyn Williams: The Hebrew Christian 1785 5,3 | the male gods are normally lumped together under the general 1786 2,4 | they are seen against the lurid background of the Day of 1787 10,4 | 1. ver. 6ff condemn the lust of conquest, which sheds 1788 6,6 | of sacrifice, either absolute or qualified. The end of 1789 11,1 | stirred up the people to lynch Jeremiah, and were only 1790 11,2 | Jeremiah is the greatest lyric poet of them all. Only Hosea 1791 15,2 | putting portions as late as Maccabean times right down to 100 1792 14,1 | circles. It is true that in I Mace. 4:46; 14:41 we have certain 1793 11,5 | nouncing him as a deceiver or madman; at times he was tempted 1794 11,0 | 29). It was the height of madness, ut we may be sure that 1795 15,7 | against superstition and magic arts. It may be in its present 1796 5,3 | at the shrines, designed magically to increase the fertility 1797 6,6 | the very correctness only magnifies the offence. It should be 1798 6,9 | While almah could mean a maiden, it is actually always used 1799 6,7 | probabilities, and the remainder is essentially timeless 1800 13,5 | abnormality m Ezekiel’s make-up.~ The use of dried cow’s 1801 6,5 | transformed by the Servant; her Maker becomes her Husband, and 1802 5,3 | of this religion. All the male gods are normally lumped 1803 7,2 | Moresheth-gath (1:1, 14), as mall country town in the Shephelah, 1804 1,8 | sought Me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked after 1805 11,1 | elders’ evidence. This is manifestly false. It is doubtful whether, 1806 9,3 | discovered only by textual manipulation, and the second eleven only 1807 6,7 | certain circles that the manuscript discoveries at the 1808 9,3 | alphabetic psalm from a manuscript but wrote it down as best 1809 17,8 | have been of Merodach or Marduk, his favourite god. The 1810 5,2 | unusually high number of marginal notes in the R.V. testifies 1811 3,4 | dark as to what kind of marine monster it was.~ ~ 1812 13,8 | universal is shown by the marking of the faithful on their 1813 6,1 | Growth of obduracy in the mass of the people. (Chiefly 1814 6,8 | compassion for us” (tractates (Massektoth), Talmud Babli. In another 1815 3,6 | Diodorus Siculus, who estimated it at about 60 miles (See 1816 11,9 | footnote is only approximately correct. Shorter portions 1817 14,1 | accept this, it would not materially alter our picture of post-exilic 1818 17,9 | that every detailed and dogmatic interpretation should be 1819 13,2 | there is no definite information on the subject in the Talmud 1820 Intro | early took over the rabbinic maxim, “No prophet prophesied 1821 16,4 | offering is the minchah, the meal or gift offering, which 1822 13,0 | in which Ezekiel eats his meals, carefully weighing the 1823 11,8 | nationalistic setting of Jer. 31 as meaningless or spiritualize it into 1824 17,3 | frames of each period are measured in “week” years, i.e. seven-year 1825 13,3 | Hezekiah after burning 300 measures of midnight oil — and because 1826 17,8 | of one’s food, specially meat and wine (cf. I Cor 8; 10: 1827 14,1 | the need for some almost mechanical means for the discovery 1828 6,1 | Alarmed, Astyages king of Media attacked him in 550 B.C., 1829 6,1 | Cyrus had the whole of the Median empire under his control, 1830 16,2 | but this presupposes an immediate slump in the behaviour of 1831 18,2 | And in His law doth he meditate day and night. (Ps. 1:2.).~ 1832 15,4 | west of Palestine is the Mediterranean!) and now give their 1833 3,4 | at the western end of the Mediterranean, the end of the world for 1834 8,3 | humble (2:3; better than “meek,” cf. Mic. 6:8), Isaiah’ 1835 3,7 | monster lord of chaos, who meekly serves Jehovah as need arises.~ ~ ~ 1836 Intro | latest authority, P. van der Meer: The Ancient Chronology 1837 12,1 | than the second view in meeting certain inherent difficulties 1838 18,1 | as the third of the five Megillot, or Rolls (Song of Songs, 1839 15,5 | ever after the order of Melchizedek (Ps. 110:4; Heb. 6:20).~ 1840 5,3 | introduce the worship of Melkart, the Baal of Tyre. Though 1841 4,6 | companied the sacrifices, “the melody of thy viols” the musical 1842 1,5 | might be the more easily remembered. It should be remembered 1843 13,2 | suggestion that they are mere memorial sacrifices looking back 1844 5,2 | represents the treasured memories of his devoted disciples. 1845 4,3 | right?” and in God’s commendation of him (Gen. 18:19). It 1846 17,8 | the wall (5:25); (a) was Mene written once or twice? ( 1847 13,3 | the prophet’s guide and mentor is an angelic being, and 1848 13,7 | drought and heat of summer. So Ezekiel sees him being 1849 13,1 | exegesis, Sheba, Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, so far from 1850 5,5 | loyal love and covenanted mercies.~ Hosea’s marriage was a 1851 1,8 | greatest of them, for I will be merciful to their iniquities, and 1852 5,3 | Eshbaal, Saul’s son, and Meribbaal his grandson (IChron. 8: 1853 11,7 | them by because of their merits, they were told that on 1854 4,2 | expression is used of him and Mesha, king of Moab (IIKings 3: 1855 13,3 | winged figures so common in Mesopotamian temples. While we consider 1856 5,4 | did. Hosea, like all God’s messengers, had to experience his message 1857 13,8 | cynical men, with their metaphor “this city is the caldron, 1858 1,5 | language, but with the vivid metaphors and pictures of poetry as 1859 6,4 | conquerors who have swept meteor-like through the history of mankind, 1860 17,2 | accepted as history must be meticulous in its accuracy; 1861 13,2 | 5:4). Since, however, a meticulous observance of every detail 1862 18,3 | faulty division in the R.V.~ Metrically ch. 3 is the most complicated. 1863 11,8 | partial (Heb. 1:1) and so Jeremiah did not rise to the whole 1864 13,3 | burning 300 measures of midnight oil — and because it seemed 1865 6,8 | Goddarshan writes in the Midrash (the book, interpreting 1866 1,8 | Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty One, the Potentate, the 1867 15,3 | future encouragement. God mil bless, but only a people 1868 13,4 | Such a picture seems to us mildly ridiculous. But we do not 1869 17,3 | of this era by the Roman military leader Titus. During the 1870 16,4 | and the offering is the minchah, the meal or gift offer 1871 15,4 | Zechariah sees Joshua standing ministering, perhaps in the rebuilt 1872 6,7 | goes round as a wandering minstrel at some vintage festival; 1873 13,2 | 40:2; 47:1), it deepens miraculously. No appeal may 1874 Intro | this book ?~ The Prophets mirror their own times with their 1875 16,3 | still. For the situation mirrored here see p. 96.~ “But Esau 1876 6,1 | 56-66. The new Zion and miscellaneous prophecies. ~ ~ 1877 14,1 | 13:2-6 we have the last miserable end of the professional 1878 16,4 | The famous dictum in the Mishnah, “And the School of Hillel 1879 15,4 | ver. 1), which makes us misinterpret the vision. The phrase may 1880 13,4 | himself so badly that men have misinterpreted his prophecy for centuries; 1881 5,6 | follows. In ver. 10 “Yet…” is misleading; it is the simple “And it 1882 14,1 | in Mal. 2:7 (the English misleadingly, though accurately, for 1883 13,1 | prophetic expositors have been misled by the apparent relationship 1884 7,4 | likely that they have been misplaced in transmission.~ ~ 1885 | miss 1886 13,0 | linguistically justifiable, misses the meaning. It is the ruler’ 1887 6,7 | seem to be unnecessary and mistaken. They form part of an address 1888 6,2 | mind. Isaiah deals with the misuse of the latter two.~ As might 1889 11,2 | in 7:21-26. He begins by mockingly calling on his hearers to 1890 10,4 | here it is the prophet that mocks Chaldean idolatry. Nebuchadnezzar 1891 13,5 | siege of Jerusalem with his model (4:1-3) and also for 390 1892 2,2 | approximate chronological order, modified where necessary by spiritual 1893 1,8 | cleansed, nor bandaged, nor mollified with ointment... Though 1894 17,3 | Archaemenidae in 453 BC. This momentous event is described in depth 1895 11,2 | temple and all its ceremonial were doomed to destruction 1896 16,4 | Testament obviously looks on monogamy as the ideal, and we do 1897 6,4 | the nations. Now He summons them, that His honour may 1898 11,5 | have that overpowering, monumental character that seems to 1899 1,8 | I cannot bear your new moons, and your sabbaths, and 1900 6,6 | worship without corresponding morality of life only angers God, 1901 6,9 | the righteous and will be morally satisfied with the results 1902 7,2 | R.V.), was a native of Moresheth-gath (1:1, 14), as mall country 1903 1,8 | bulwarks. I watch in the morning and the night. If you 1904 6,8 | col 4, 29, Tit). The Rabbi Moshe Goddarshan writes in the 1905 9,2 | about 27 miles north of Mosul, which is near the ruins 1906 11,6 | The Moulding of the Prophet. ~ The dual 1907 1,8 | Zion, go up on the high mountains; lift up thy voice 1908 13,7 | So Ezekiel sees him being mourned in August.~ (d) Sun worship ( 1909 6,8 | shall mourn for Him, as one mourneth for his only son... In that 1910 1,5 | the people (5:1-4), the removal of his goods (12:1-16), 1911 6,0 | Merodach-baladan and his movements point in the same 1912 13,3 | Ezekiel Zedekiah’s first moves that were to lead to his 1913 | Mr 1914 13,8 | clear that it is not so mucn the idolatry that brings 1915 13,7 | purely symbolic here.~ (b) A multitude of heathen idols, mostly 1916 4,4 | subordinate him to the community as a whole. It is our familiarity 1917 6,5 | 735 B.C. Pekah, who had murdered Menahem’s son, and Rezin 1918 3,4 | examples in the British Museum). A vivid impression of 1919 13,4 | exiles there.~ As he sits mute among his old surroundings 1920 9,3 | poem should have been so mutilated seems impossible, unless 1921 15,4 | on His horse “among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom.” 1922 13,3 | the Chariot knew all the mysteries of creation, and restricted 1923 6,9 | mentioned in ver. 14 are mythological, but even they could not 1924 6,3 | of the gods in Babylonian mythology.~ ~ 1925 11,4 | the time. The Hebrew word (na’ar) should not have been 1926 12,2 | was in the hands of the Nabateans in 312 B.C., but they may 1927 4,3 | Jezebel’s judicial murder of Naboth was a greater sin than all 1928 6,4 | young man, to at least Sennacherib’s invasion, 701 B.C., and 1929 5,5 | expect. Even so Jehovah nad made a covenant with Israel, 1930 17,8 | them (ch. 1).~ It is rather naive to think that Nebuchadnezzar 1931 6,8 | the death of the Messiah, named in the Holy Scriptures “ 1932 6,8 | Messiah, as does the symbolic naming of Him as the (corner) stone. 1933 6,6 | and the choice of a remnant; looking out over the exile, 1934 1,8 | land of Zebulon, land of Naphtali, and the rest inhabiting 1935 9,1 | can be fixed within fairly narrow limits. It must be after 1936 6,5 | the whole of Israel, the narrower Jeshurun (44:2), the centre 1937 11,8 | that we must dismiss the nationalistic setting of Jer. 31 as meaningless 1938 6,6 | the ass of the traditional Nativity pictures come from here. 1939 13,9 | exile should be changed natures. For “one heart” (ver. 19) 1940 16,4 | justify divorce, it would nave shown itself much earlier; 1941 4,4 | rejection of prophet and Nazirite (2:11f), a pretentious, 1942 15,3 | in the Old Testament, the nearest comparable case being Haggai ( — 1943 17,8 | by Deut. 12:15, 20f). As Nebuchadnezzar was a religious man, 1944 9,3 | diametrically opposite errors connected with the Hebrew text that 1945 6,6 | small as to be virtually negligible; elsewhere “my people” and “ 1946 1,8 | for He did no iniquity, neither is there guile in His 1947 17,3 | nations, living in the regions neighboring Jerusalem, hindered the 1948 6,6 | correct behaviour toward one’s neighbour (cf. I John 4:20).~ This 1949 18,5 | describes the callousness of the neighbouring nations. It is not clear 1950 1,7 | place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea. 1951 18,2 | alliteration and assonance, but nevef rhyme — the few apparent 1952 | Nevertheless 1953 1,1 | divided into the Torah (Law), Neviim (Prophets), and Ketuvim ( 1954 7,7 | grammar suggests that the connexion is merely one of juxtaposition. 1955 17,8 | 12:15, 20f). As Nebuchadnezzar was a religious man, it 1956 4,2 | flock, for the same technical expression is used of him 1957 15,2 | Hebrew and the LXX is a nightmare.~ ~ 1958 | nine 1959 13,8 | Jerusalem fell on the ninth day of the fourth month 1960 Intro | abbreviations and generally recognized ones for the books of the 1961 9,1 | after the sack of Thebes (No-amon; 3:8) by the Assyrians in 1962 11,2 | idolatry was the beginning of a no-longer-post-ponable end (7:16-20) so there was 1963 3,2 | allegorical teaching, however noble.~ Apart from the deep-rooted 1964 18,0 | Old Testament Bible: the nomothetic, historical, didactic and 1965 6,4 | 14:28-32). ~ A logical non sequitur should be avoided 1966 15,3 | a considerable number of non-connected shorter prophecies bound 1967 1,3 | historian would consider non-essentials and the omission of apparent 1968 1,7 | its primary meaning, its non-fulfilment in the prophet’s time cannot 1969 17,1 | scholars have taken the non-historical nature of Daniel for granted.~ 1970 4,4 | Him the capriciousness and non-moral character of the Baalim 1971 Intro | eminent.~ In fairness to my non-technical readers I have given them 1972 1,2 | unchanging significance. But none-the-less we will be better fitted 1973 4,2 | Moab (IIKings 3:4), i.e. noqed.~ Amos otters us no indication 1974 11,4 | about four miles to the north-east of Jerusalem, in the tribal 1975 Intro | very real spiritual connotation that Jehovah has for many 1976 6,8 | the (corner) stone. It is noteworthy that, according to the prophecy, 1977 17,4 | subject, but it is worth noting that Zockler, Wright and 1978 11,4 | resented sharing in his notoriety.~ A couple of years later ( 1979 11,5 | the people against him, denouncing him as a deceiver or madman; 1980 13,2 | At first Ezekiel may have nourished hopes of an early return 1981 14,1 | that we can know God’s will npw through His self-revelation 1982 18,3 | assonances of the endings -u, -nu, -anu, -enu, -inu, -unu 1983 14,6 | dead body of the sanctuary nullifies the effect of the altar ( 1984 6,8 | soul unto death, And He was numbered with the transgressors, 1985 7,2 | book (chs. 6, 7) Micah’s denunciations pass from the leaders to 1986 11,5 | Jeremiah to the problem nvolved (4:10). He was soon to realize 1987 11,3 | made it twice. If so, how obdurate had the people become! A 1988 14,2 | 6:6-12), which was then obeyed by the local authorities ( 1989 15,3 | All-Sovereign.~ Though the object of the first eight chapters 1990 17,3 | time. It will, however, be objected that any such loss of the 1991 11,0 | did not free him from the obligation of seeking God’s face. Note 1992 1,8 | low them? Yes, he makes an oblique reference to this in the 1993 2,7 | does not swallow it up or obliterate it.~ There may be adequate 1994 1,7 | slowly it went down into oblivion.~ If this is so, he would 1995 17,1 | has always been the most obnoxious of Old Testament books to 1996 13,0 | fulfilment to-day.~ The English obscures the fact that the Hebrew 1997 8,6 | represent Jehovah instead of obscuring Him as the earlier judges 1998 1,2 | is derived neither from observation nor intellectual thought, 1999 6,5 | thought is not easy, and observing the main sub-divisions may 2000 6,4 | physical exile, or rather all obstacle to their return has been