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2501 9,2 | Mosul, which is near the ruins of Nineveh. Nahum’s tomb 2502 13,8 | About six months later rumours in Tel-Abib were silenced 2503 13,6 | saw Jerusalem as a great rusty caldron (so R.V). in which 2504 18,1 | or Rolls (Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, 2505 11,2 | seen by his commendation of Sabbath observance (as a proof of 2506 6,2 | the exile, circumcision, Sabbath-keeping, and fasting were among 2507 1,8 | your new moons, and your sabbaths, and the festival assemblies... 2508 9,1 | limits. It must be after the sack of Thebes (No-amon; 3:8) 2509 6,8 | details relating to the sacrament of redemption, but we will 2510 Intro | preference, I should have sacrificed the very real spiritual 2511 18,1 | Old Testament. We are much safer and more reverent in accepting 2512 11,6 | had previously fled for safety.~ The reason for the change 2513 4,7 | his second group of messages he had to give a general 2514 3,4 | Jehovah’s compulsion Jonah sailed for some port at the western 2515 11,7 | ruled for Assyria by the Samaritan settlers.~ This dual meaning 2516 1,8 | children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall 2517 11,8 | 33:14-26 is to make all sane Bible interpretation impossible. 2518 14,3 | God did not respond to the sanguine hopes with which they had 2519 17,3 | come, he will never come!” (Sanhedrin 97b). The severity of this 2520 1,2 | 21f), that does not necessarily establish his credentials ( 2521 14,6 | turning to God was necessary (Zech. 1:2-6). Now on the 2522 9,1 | for the sinner in the deep satisfaction that God’s justice has been 2523 15,7 | in ver. 11 has never been satisfactorily explained.~ k) 13:1-6. The 2524 6,5 | interpretation that really satisfies is Messianic.~ Professor 2525 1,8 | depict the coming of the Saviour of the world. Before 2526 1,8 | the Prophet Isaiah was sawn in two with a wooden saw), 2527 6,5 | the sword is still in the scabbard, the arrow in the quiver. 2528 13,5 | other forms of fuel are scarce.~ ~ 2529 1,8 | snow; and though they be as scarlet, I will make them white 2530 1,5 | the symbolizing of the scattering of the people (5:1-4), the 2531 6,8 | shall rouse him up? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, 2532 Intro | C.B. — Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges.~ Driver LOT — 2533 13,4 | Ezekiel’s message was consciously addressed to the Northern 2534 3,2 | miraculous lies outside the scope of rational argument, and 2535 6,8 | that see Me laugh Me to scorn,” compare to Mark 15:29.~ 2536 6,5 | Judah escaped apparently scot free in 711 B.C. (ch. 20); 2537 11,8 | it, just as He does not scrap this earth but renews it.~ ~ 2538 15,3 | rather than on any definite Scriptural proof. The use of the term 2539 1,5 | 13), his sinking of the scroll against Babylon in the Euphrates ( 2540 9,3 | Isaiah among the Dead Sea scrolls, has supported a middle 2541 11,6 | is quite unsuited to the Scythians, so that those who 2542 11,6 | Chaldeans. It is neither Scythian nor Chaldean that Jeremiah 2543 13,7 | from the time of the Judges ση (see p. 36ff). The making 2544 4,7 | of Sheol (9:2), the great sea-serpent (9:3). The force of the 2545 1,8 | the rest inhabiting the seacoast, and the land beyond Jordan, 2546 15,3 | transliterates Zeba’oth as Sebaoth, but in Zechariah it renders 2547 18,0 | all one's mind, and the second concerning loving one' 2548 11,7 | Israel (2:1-4:4).~ In this seccion we have a number of short, 2549 6,2 | Shebna was virtually Foreign Secretary, 22:15-25 is entirely in 2550 11,1 | suggests that the priests, secure in their knowledge of the 2551 11,6 | used in Exod. 22:16 of the seducing of a girl. It is deliberately 2552 1,8 | One cries to me out of Seir. Guard ye the bulwarks. 2553 18,2 | seldom good poetry and still seldomer a real picture of the Hebrew.~ 2554 15,4 | were at arrogant ease and self-confident peace with no thought of 2555 18,3 | heart, but with polished and self-conscious literature. Jeremiah was 2556 13,5 | interpretation would seem self-contradictory. The obvious interpretation 2557 18,0 | of love to the level of self-denial, of love which is greater 2558 3,2 | The appeal to our Lord’s self-emptying (Phil. 2:7, R.V. — the “ 2559 4,1 | the Lord.~6 — Ch. 6. The Self-satisfied Leaders.~ C. Five Visions 2560 13,9 | took advantage of bad and selfish kingship to oppress the 2561 6,0 | are not due to personal selfishness, content so long as trouble 2562 11,5 | 30f), who were willing to sell themselves for money (6: 2563 14,5 | captivity and were often semi-heathen. But since we cannot date 2564 17,8 | as normally the case in Semitic writing) they will have 2565 6,4 | a young man, to at least Sennacherib’s invasion, 701 2566 12,3 | V. text see IISam. 3:21 (send away), for the R.V. mg. 2567 11,1 | which depicts Jeremiah sending messages to the kings of 2568 11,6 | answer; He shocked him to his senses by His call to conversion ( 2569 13,0 | within their number representatives of all the tribes, yet we 2570 13,7 | Jehovah Himself, and represented that popular Canaanization 2571 9,2 | perhaps near Lachish.~ Sentiment might make us favour either 2572 10,2 | after 2:4. Then 1:2ff represents a complaint against the 2573 14,4 | contradict 2:18. The Hebrew separates it from the preceding, 2574 18,6 | spiritual misery of being separated from God by a sense of guilt 2575 15,2 | great that had they stood separately in the Bible none would 2576 12,4 | ignorance of the location of Sepharad and why it should be specially 2577 Intro | previously cited.~ LXX — The Septuagint; the oldest Greek trans 2578 8,3 | without any very serious consequences for him or his people (but’ 2579 6,4 | 28-32). ~ A logical non sequitur should be avoided here. “ 2580 18,0 | mountain, the Beatitudes of the Sermon on the Mount.~Two ancient 2581 Intro | were useful as pegs to hang sermons on. To take the Prophets 2582 4,5 | possibility of publicly serving God to show his zeal and 2583 11,7 | Assyria by the Samaritan settlers.~ This dual meaning of Israel 2584 17,3 | the starting date of the “sevanty weeks” (490 years).~ ~The 2585 15,4 | 4). ~ The vision is of a seven-branched lampstand, which differed 2586 17,3 | measured in “week” years, i.e. seven-year spans. The Hebrew word for “ 2587 17,3 | the question whether the seventieth week is still future or 2588 2,4 | prophecy was an exceptionally severe invasion of locusts. Interpretations 2589 17,3 | come!” (Sanhedrin 97b). The severity of this ban is understandable. 2590 2,5 | which all barriers of birth, sex and social standing should 2591 3,7 | and gave him a little shade. A worm at its root killed 2592 16,3 | there were no intermediate shades, not to elect, not to love, 2593 15,5 | saw in Zerubbabel the foreshadowing of the Messiah (see note 2594 14,5 | final one. Soon this final “shaking” would come, and then 2595 14,5 | by telling them:~ a) The “shaking” which brought down Babylon 2596 5,7 | also no certainty whether Shalman (10:14) is short for Shalmaneser 2597 1,6 | The Shaping of the Prophetic Book. ~ 2598 11,4 | aristocratic family resented sharing in his notoriety.~ A couple 2599 2,6 | Israel. Immediately the sharp-cut details of vers. 1-8 vanish, 2600 11,4 | 10:36). One of his most shattering experiences was to find 2601 17,3 | Hebrew word for “week” is “shavua” and literally means “seven.” 2602 6,4 | knew the name of his son Shear-jashub (this follows inevitably 2603 6,8 | And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, So He opened 2604 13,1 | Contrary to popular exegesis, Sheba, Dedan, and the merchants 2605 6,2 | in this section, but as Shebna was virtually Foreign Secretary, 2606 10,4 | lust of conquest, which sheds blood for the sheer love 2607 15,4 | Zechariah sees a great sheet of leather 30’ by 15’ (the 2608 Intro | Literature, University of Sheffield, and “Rev. H. F. Stevenson, 2609 17,8 | read the words: a mina, a shekel, and a half mina (or half 2610 8,6 | direct presence except in the Shekinah glory which had already 2611 6,9 | see corruption. Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in 2612 14,3 | points to the latter as shewing his family not to be of 2613 13,4 | foundation of the Law. But he is shifting the operation of the Law 2614 5,3 | For the prophets the worshipping of one’s own conception 2615 1,7 | The question is normally shirked either by referring the 2616 7,7 | cut to a minimum. “From Shittim to Gil-gal” refers to the 2617 11,6 | apparent in God’s answer; He shocked him to his senses by His 2618 18,0 | were dispersed when the Sun shone forth. There are no more 2619 11,8 | was but the last effort to shore up the doomed and collapsing 2620 12,2 | explaining why this, by far the shortest of the prophets, was preserved. 2621 15,3 | difficulties, the message is shot through with that deep moral 2622 1,8 | Whose government is upon His shoulder. And His name is called 2623 17,8 | fobbed off on him. He argued shrewdly that anyone able to tell 2624 5,3 | prostitution (!) at the shrines, designed magically to increase 2625 3,7 | the hot sirocco wind both shriveled it up and threatened Jonah 2626 13,3 | then the words are to be shut up and sealed (Dan. 8:26; 2627 15,7 | the land. There is no possibility of identifying the particular 2628 4,6 | preferable to the past. Siccuth and Chiun (R.V). are generally 2629 1,8 | acquainted with the bearing of sickness … His life is taken away 2630 3,6 | of the city by Diodorus Siculus, who estimated it at about 2631 6,3 | more strikingly when we consider man’s best concepts of God ( 2632 13,3 | from obvious at first consideration.~ If we find Ezekiel’s symbolism 2633 17,1 | been disastrous, for both sides have come to the study of 2634 9,4 | ancient siege warfare as such sieges always were. Nineveh was 2635 1,8 | 31: 33‑34).Thus prophesies Jeremiah.~The same is proclaimed 2636 1,8 | them; pain and sorrow, and sighing have fled away (Is. 35:1‑ 2637 13,8 | rumours in Tel-Abib were silenced by the arrival of one of 2638 5,4 | value fifteen shekels of silver (translate in 3:2, “…even 2639 9,2 | in the tribal portion of Simeon, perhaps near Lachish.~ 2640 6,2 | difference in authorship; the similarities demand some connexion between 2641 17,1 | as the beasts themselves. Similarly in ver. 13 the R.V. is correct 2642 4,7 | basis of Hos. 8:5f it is simpler to assume that a bull image 2643 11,6 | him. The word stresses the simplicity Of the one deceived; it 2644 16,4 | Jehovah accepts all true and sincere worship and sacrifice as 2645 17,8 | twice? (b) was it Peres (sing), or Parsin (plu. — u equals “ 2646 6,8 | the people will occur in a single day. In other words, one 2647 13,0 | can easily see why Edom is singled out (cf. Isa. 34, p. 53). 2648 1,8 | world, and of her the Church sings: “Rejoice, holy Zion, thou 2649 1,7 | 29:14f). Babylon did not sink like a stone in the Euphrates ( 2650 1,5 | s palace (43:8-13), his sinking of the scroll against Babylon 2651 6,5 | the very Law-Mount they sinned, worshipping a calf of gold. 2652 17,4 | makes an immediate admission to the Canon improbable. 2653 3,7 | root killed it and the hot sirocco wind both shriveled it up 2654 14,4 | place. It is entirely consistent with this that while it 2655 16,5 | the people exists and persists (3:13ff), there must be 2656 9,2 | cannot now identify the site of this hamlet with certainty. 2657 14,2 | excuse of external opposition is seen by the fact that 2658 13,4 | the exiles there.~ As he sits mute among his old surroundings 2659 7,7 | failure to get a comprehensive picture of the demands of 2660 15,4 | is Joshua’s complete passivity. The reason probably lies 2661 9,2 | shown to be older than the sixteenth century. Were this tradition 2662 17,3 | the bare possibility of a sixth-century date can be shown.~ But 2663 17,7 | he will have been nearly sixty — or moved to a subordinate 2664 17,4 | vision until he was at least sixty-five. All this makes an immediate 2665 1,1 | it means a difference in size, not in value (De Civitate 2666 16,2 | prose and carefully and skilfully put together.~ His message 2667 5,3 | three, the chief god (a sky god), his wife (an earth 2668 13,8 | cross.~ Then follows the slaying of the unmarked (9:5-11), 2669 6,8 | about who will raise the sleeping Lion, allegorically refers 2670 11,7 | Hast thou seen what backsliding Israel did? She went up … 2671 6,5 | the figure of the Servant slips out of the shadows.~ The 2672 14,6 | have represented it as a slowing down.~ Haggai’s argument 2673 1,7 | Jer. 51:64), but surely, slowly it went down into oblivion.~ 2674 1,8 | people's conscience was still slumbering. These reproofs are incomparable 2675 16,2 | presupposes an immediate slump in the behaviour of the 2676 13,2 | haphazardly. In even the smallest details of life and organization 2677 3,4 | brought the metal ores for smelting; then the places called 2678 6,8 | I gave My back to the smiters, and My cheeks to them that 2679 15,4 | both A.V. carpenters, R.V. smiths are too precise) who frighten 2680 1,8 | shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench; 2681 15,2 | certain; that they were smuggled into both the Hebrew and 2682 Intro | learned readers wilt not sniff at my use of “Jehovah.” 2683 1,8 | will make them white as snow; and though they be as scarlet, 2684 8,6 | but not to mention him snowed how perfectly he would represent 2685 6,5 | widespread recognition that the so-called Servant Songs (42:1-4; 49: 2686 12,2 | prophet prophesying on Judaean soil during the exile, and would 2687 5,4 | treated as a slave, perhaps sold by her paramour, who had 2688 10,3 | which it can find no full solution (see also note on Isa. 45: 2689 10,2 | divided between four different solutions of the difficulty: (See 2690 17,3 | are the variant efforts to solve the chronological problems 2691 11,1 | were sent to them too at a somewhat earlier date.~ ~ ~ ~ 2692 1,8 | in His bosom, and shall soothe them that are with young ( 2693 1,8 | possession of them; pain and sorrow, and sighing have fled away ( 2694 6,8 | looked on his experience as a sort of “second blessing.” There 2695 17,9 | convinced must underlie any sound exposition of the visions 2696 1,8 | to the head there is no soundness in them; a wound, a bruise, 2697 13,4 | in the first place to the Southern Kingdom, unless the context 2698 14,4 | should be translated: Then spake Haggai, The Angel of the 2699 17,3 | years, i.e. seven-year spans. The Hebrew word for “week” 2700 3,7 | God should do (4:2), it spared Israel’s most dangerous 2701 5,7 | commas, for there are three speakers in it:~ ~ ~~~Hosea vers. 2702 6,8 | of His being pierced by a spear, and of the repentance of 2703 7,3 | idolatry Samaria’s sins are not specified. As it now stands the prophecy 2704 13,3 | handle to certain gnostic speculations.).~ ~ ~ ~ 2705 11,7 | promised the exiles a hope of speedy return, Jeremiah insisted 2706 17,7 | before 1400 B.C. His name is spelled Dani’el (or more likely 2707 17,7 | while the hero of our book spells his Daniyye’l, and this 2708 Intro | he is much more likely to spend money on a book to help 2709 6,2 | the differences in these spheres between “Proto-” and “Deutero-Isaiah” 2710 17,4 | books were recognized as inspired within a generation of their 2711 13,9 | for they bear rule as the Spirit-appointed delegates of Jesus Christ, “ 2712 11,5 | from unadulterated, because spirituality is so easily imitated, because 2713 2,7 | hardly justify the complete spiritualization of the Old Testament hope. 2714 11,8 | Jer. 31 as meaningless or spiritualize it into thin air. Rom. 11: 2715 15,7 | unless it is completely spiritualized.~ d) 10:If. A warning against 2716 1,7 | to the Millennium, or by spiritualizing the prophecy and referring 2717 6,8 | not My face from shame and spitting. For the Lord God will help 2718 9,1 | Nahum’s language and the splendour of his descriptions tend 2719 16,4 | divorce her] even if she spoiled a dish for him, for it is 2720 13,1 | be eager to share in the spoils (38:13).~ Ezekiel’s vision 2721 1,2 | words, the prophet is God’s spokesman. Speaking for God may involve 2722 3,3 | unparalleled distress God’s spokesmen had to see clearly that 2723 18,3 | not dealing here with the spontaneous outpourings of a broken 2724 6,6 | Jewish communities that sprang up later in Egypt. There 2725 1,7 | bare rock, a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of 2726 17,8 | that he did not want some spur-of-the-moment priestly explanation fobbed 2727 10,4 | develop the previous woe. The squeezing of the conquered peoples 2728 13,0 | meaning. It is the ruler’s staff or rod that is meant. The 2729 13,6 | in 5:5-17. Note at this stage the vagueness about the 2730 13,0 | that he could not see, and stagger off with his bundle. The 2731 1,8 | hart, and the tongue of the stammerers shall speak plainly; for 2732 13,2 | fulfilment, the shadow in the substance, the earthly in the heavenly. 2733 11,5 | in Jeremiah is only understandable as we grasp that he was 2734 18,1 | Nebuchadnezzar; quite understandably it is read in the Synagogue 2735 6,3 | 14:12) means the morning star. The application of the 2736 4,6 | to refer to the Assyrian star-worship, which was becoming popular. 2737 17,9 | reasonably expect something startlingly new.~ c) The one prophecy 2738 6,5 | 63:7-64:12). ~ The prayer starts with the first person singular, 2739 6,3 | fade away into impotence, starved as he was by the ending 2740 17,2 | allegedly un-historical statements in the book. Those who are 2741 13,2 | to be a prophet,” it is stating a real truth, even though 2742 13,5 | interpretation of ver. 26 is that the statutes referred to human sacrifice ( 2743 1,7 | God has given him Egypt instead (29:17-20). This is re-affirmed 2744 5,5 | man’s love. R.S.V. renders steadfast love.~ Hosea does not merely 2745 1,8 | and commit adultery, and steal, and swear falsely, and 2746 7,5 | of the prophecy even as Stephen (Acts 7:43) adapted Amos 2747 11,9 | the throne than Jeremiah stepped into the limelight and stayed 2748 14,3 | Then with the same simple, stern logic shown by Amos, he 2749 Intro | Sheffield, and “Rev. H. F. Stevenson, Editor of The Life of Faith. 2750 1,8 | Octoechos, Tone 8, Sun. Sticheron on “Lord, I have cried”).~ 2751 13,0 | symbolically. The translation “stick” (ver. 16), though linguistically 2752 8,2 | that were the external stimulus moving Jeremiah to prophesy, 2753 3,3 | so earned for himself the stinging rebuke of the sailors (1: 2754 Intro | interest anyone sufficiently to stir him to further reading, 2755 11,4 | arrested him, put him in the stocks and left him there all night ( 2756 6,8 | son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, 2757 | stop 2758 11,3 | its message to those who stopped their ears to the message 2759 13,3 | stood there he saw a great storm-cloud being borne down on him 2760 6,1 | citadel held out. This was stormed and Belshazzar, Nabonidus’ 2761 11,1 | common artifice in Hebrew story-telling, it should be clear that 2762 Intro | the Prophets simply and straightforwardly and to reap the 2763 6,7 | Deutero-Isaiah” without any straining of probabilities, and the 2764 4,4 | of the widow, orphan and stranger is so often stressed. God 2765 11,7 | hope; no! for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go” ( 2766 18,2 | like a tree planted by the streams of water, That bringeth 2767 13,4 | would not have sought to strengthen the hands of the older prophet, 2768 14,2 | government reaffirmed and strengthened the original edict of Cyrus ( 2769 6,8 | prophecy of Isaiah had for strengthening faith in the power of the 2770 2,7 | transformation in the cosmic stretch of the power of the Cross.~ 2771 1,8 | saith: All day long I have stretched forth My hands to a disobedient 2772 13,3 | Matt. 24:15), but prophecy stretches from a prophet’s concern 2773 6,8 | was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed. All we like 2774 11,4 | at Carchemish, and at one stroke became lord of the lands 2775 13,1 | less does the book contain structural difficulties of the kind 2776 6,8 | hewn down, but the stock or stub left in the earth; from 2777 Intro | possibility in vexed questions of studying the views of others for 2778 1,8 | works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling stone; 2779 1,8 | For they stumbled at that stumbling stone; as it is written, 2780 1,8 | Behold, I lay in Zion a stumblingstone and rock of offense, and 2781 6,6 | could have imagined its stupendous wonder as God and man met 2782 1,1 | Prophets.~ This enumeration and sub-division is not to be found in the 2783 6,5 | and observing the main sub-divisions may make its understanding 2784 6,1 | Cyrus needed three years to subdue the Greek cities of Ionia.~ 2785 18,7 | the note of hope, but of subdued hope. To avoid ending the 2786 17,3 | The rabbi of Gemar even subjected those Hebrews, who would 2787 1,8 | consolation; these are the two subjects of their proclamations and 2788 11,7 | the ruler of God’s choice. Submission was a sign of loyalty to 2789 6,8 | logical order is always subordinated to the spiritual lesson 2790 6,0 | of chronology being made subservient to spiritual ends. Chs. 2791 5,2 | His prophecies themselves substantiate the inference to be 2792 18,8 | He took our place as our substitute. It is therefore entirely 2793 15,5 | prophecy was distorted by substituting Joshua’s name. The plausibility 2794 11,2 | main concern was with the subtly false rather than the grossly 2795 13,6 | been pointed out that if we subtract the forty years from the 2796 4,2 | his heart. Then in rapid succession came the signs of God’s 2797 4,2 | all.~ Though Amos’ great successors could not have echoed his 2798 17,9 | is a guarantee of God’s succour for all who trust Him and 2799 6,8 | throat… and Thy soul shall succumb from anguish and gasping. 2800 17,3 | prayers the Archangel Gabriel suddenly appeared before the prophet 2801 Intro | prophets being the worst sufferers. I do not regret this. The 2802 6,1 | post-exilic community, we have no suggestion that matters ever so 2803 2,4 | however exaggerated, can be suitably applied to locusts.~ The 2804 11,2 | The R.V. should be consulted here. “Circumcised in their 2805 11,4 | entering the temple, presumably as a sequel to 20:1-6. A 2806 13,6 | involved, and that they are summed-up in the defilement of the 2807 13,3 | 21). ~ In the height of summer 592 B.C., Ezekiel was transported 2808 6,9 | eternal King!~ In this way, summing up the contents of this 2809 6,5 | according to the spirit; its summit is the person of the Redeemer. 2810 13,0 | as always in Babylonia of sun-dried bricks), bring out his bundle, 2811 1,8 | became the people's only support.~Comfort ye, comfort 2812 6,9 | and immediate, the other supernatural and future (See 2813 5,3 | though He were merely a super-Baal, with the character, interests 2814 1,2 | source of the message is super-natural, not natural. It is derived 2815 13,2 | any effort to expound the superabundant symbolism impossible. Of 2816 13,2 | is little more than a superintender of the services, and bears 2817 14,1 | and to think himself his superior. It is therefore typical 2818 15,7 | 10:If. A warning against superstition and magic arts. It may be 2819 18,0 | oneself~At the Mystical Supper, the Lord revealed the mystical 2820 11,5 | Egypt. Rather it is the supplementing of the former message by 2821 15,4 | olive trees (vers. 3, 12) supplied the necessary oil to the 2822 15,4 | a bowl above the lamps, supplying oil to the lamps by seven 2823 17,9 | remarkable, too, how seldom the supporter of one view is won over 2824 17,1 | found suitable both by the supporters of the old traditional views 2825 5,3 | As a result Jehovah was supposed to be interested in sacrifice, 2826 7,7 | when the grace of God was supremely realized by Israel, but 2827 6,5 | his mind and demanded the surrender of the city (IIKings 2828 11,6 | unidentified. It is the sureness and terror of the doom that 2829 17,2 | of Darius the Mede, the surer we may be that there is 2830 2,4 | calamities so terrible and so surpassing the limits normally imposed 2831 3,5 | so such echoes are not surprising, especially if Jonah, as 2832 6,1 | of salvation and came to suspect Isaiah of being a Quisling ( 2833 1,7 | obey, while repentance may suspend or reverse a prophecy of 2834 14,1 | priest always tended to be suspicious of the prophet and to think 2835 2,7 | with earth but does not swallow it up or obliterate it.~ 2836 3,4 | that it was a whale that swallowed Jonah, for there are varieties 2837 13,4 | fought against the current or swam with the tide. Their pessimism 2838 5,3 | religion of the North became swamped by the Canaanite outlook. 2839 8,3 | the invasion of the locust swarms, so Zephaniah’s was by the 2840 1,8 | adultery, and steal, and swear falsely, and burn incense 2841 13,2 | Josiah’s reformation was sweeping the outward signs of idolatry 2842 6,5 | material means. So though Cyrus sweeps to his fore-ordained goal, 2843 11,6 | 12:5; the pride — A.V., swelling — of Jordan is the wild 2844 6,5 | fitted for the work, the sword is still in the scabbard, 2845 1,7 | Ezekiel e.g. the use of symbols, the problem of false prophets 2846 11,4 | if any, that he really sympathized with it. It is true that 2847 7,5 | these chapters probably synchronize with chs. 1-3 rather than 2848 8,3 | of which his religious syncretism was largely a result, will 2849 8,3 | light they throw on the syncretistic religion that had grown 2850 4,4 | rule and judged (generally synonymous terms), and so injustice 2851 17,3 | recognized that the words “in the Syrian language” in 2:4 dp not 2852 5,3 | 275, Clarendon Bible, O.T. IV, p. 218.).~ ~ 2853 13,7 | overlooked that this view tacitly attributes to cherub (28: 2854 9,1 | mention the identity of the attackers in itself supports a date 2855 1,8 | go up on the high mountains; lift up thy voice with 2856 15,7 | cleansing of Judah from all taint of sin~and false prophecy.~ 2857 10,3 | reconstruct it with certainty, its main thought is quite 2858 14,1 | 24-27, Joel and the moral tale of Jonah, as well as considerable 2859 15,4 | mention. The ephah and the talent may suggest that commerce 2860 17,3 | 7); while the chronology tallies now, there is nothing in 2861 18,1 | writer. Both the LXX and Talmudic tradition ascribe it to 2862 13,7 | cf. Jer. 7:18; 44:15-19). Tam-muz (the Greek Adonis) was one 2863 17,1 | honour.~6 — Ch. 6. God the Tamer of beasts. ~ B. The Future — 2864 8,6 | I King 8:10f). Any more tangle presence implied a human 2865 16,2 | of the early rabbis, the Targum (the official Jewish translation 2866 6,8 | curses, Thy mouth shall taste bitterness, Thy tongue shall 2867 14,6 | compromised their position with Tattenai by confessing that the 2868 17,3 | Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ taught three and a half years and 2869 13,8 | The Hebrew for “mark” is tav, the name of the last letter 2870 5,5 | explained merely by high taxation; 12:2f, suggest premeditated 2871 4,2 | his flock, for the same technical expression is used 2872 14,6 | is based on a ceremonial technicality, viz. while holiness is 2873 17,9 | unveiled future is a guarantee of God’s succour for all 2874 5,4 | young man just out of his teens. The apparently natural 2875 13,4 | grapes and the children’s teeth are blunted” (Jer. 31:29; 2876 11,7 | Jehoiakim and the exile of Tehoiachin had vindicated his message. 2877 11,5 | rejected in the early years of Tehoiakim, he found the burden of 2878 4,2 | the fortified village of Tekoa (For a description of the 2879 6,6 | condemnation of the Jerusalem temple-worship in vers. 10-17 almost certainly 2880 13,3 | so common in Mesopotamian temples. While we consider the claim 2881 2,7 | depreciation of the material and temporal found Christianity. While 2882 6,7 | and it seems that his contemporaries were not able to grasp his 2883 17,3 | the order of Vespasian, temporarily lifted the siege of the 2884 13,9 | exile do not mark a merely temporary interruption in the rule 2885 13,3 | the whole they carry the tendencies of the closing chapters 2886 5,4 | love of God more dearly and tenderly expressed than in Hosea, 2887 6,5 | with his hands full, contented himself with writing a threatening 2888 15,6 | IIKings 25:25; for that of the tenth IIKings 25:1; Jer. 39:1. 2889 5,6 | The mention of pillar and teraphim in 3:4, objects both condemned 2890 8,3 | mentioned are of great interest to the student of religions 2891 17,1 | fates of the world, of the termination of the existence of the 2892 12,2 | been driven from her old territory (Mal. 1:3f). Already 2893 11,6 | It is the sureness and terror of the doom that God reveals 2894 6,8 | book of Genesis).~ ~These testimonies of orthodox Hebrew experts 2895 5,1 | Strife.~3 — Chs. 6:7-7:7. The Testimony of History.~4 — Chs. 7:8- 2896 11,4 | unrelieved gloom.~ In modern text-books 11:1-8 are generally referred 2897 Intro | remainder, except for occasional texts, which were useful as pegs 2898 10,3 | the first line has been textually corrupted. Though we cannot 2899 3,5 | we grasp that Jonah is thanking God for saving him from 2900 9,1 | must be after the sack of Thebes (No-amon; 3:8) by the Assyrians 2901 15,4 | correct, it means that in the theocracy the light of witness is 2902 18,0 | come” (Octoechos, Dogmatic Theotokion of the 2nd Tone). The prefiguring 2903 1,8 | He did no iniquity, neither is there guile in His mouth ( 2904 | Therein 2905 | thereof 2906 1,2 | Indeed, the alleged antithesis of the Old Testament fore-teller 2907 11,6 | quite unsuited to the Scythians, so that those who hold 2908 1,8 | earth, and there shall be thick darkness upon the nations, 2909 15,4 | came to the house of the thief and perjurer — typical sinners — 2910 1,8 | name is called, a den of thieves in your eyes? (Jer. 7:4; 2911 11,8 | or spiritualize it into thin air. Rom. 11:26 shows that 2912 13,2 | This interpretation of “the thirtieth year” is widely denied, 2913 6,2 | Isaiah is unique. The first thirty-five chapters are attributed 2914 16,4 | of Jehovah’s promises and threats and much open sin (2:17- 2915 6,9 | there is a mention of a three-day resurrection, although the 2916 17,9 | to-day. Though he may get a thrill of awe as he realizes how 2917 6,8 | tongue shall cleave to Thy throat… and Thy soul shall succumb 2918 8,3 | religions for the light they throw on the syncretistic religion 2919 10,2 | prediction, but “the prophet throws himself dramatically into 2920 13,7 | Jehovah (ver. 17), and even “thrust their branch into My face” ( 2921 17,3 | rule of the Roman emperor Tiberius. This coincides with the 2922 13,4 | current or swam with the tide. Their pessimism was summed 2923 15,4 | destruction of the Temple) tie down the vision to the prophet’ 2924 3,6 | understandable. After the small tightly packed Palestinian cities 2925 14,4 | lays chief stress on the timber needed (1:8, cf. 1:4).~ 2926 15,4 | is here that we find the timelessness of the vision. The colours 2927 6,5 | the revolt of the Philistines, Judah escaped apparently 2928 15,4 | probably merely serves to distinguish them one from another and 2929 13,3 | was just as capable of distinguishing between apocalyptic and 2930 4,6 | custom in Bethel, but a continuation of this exaggeration. According 2931 10,2 | 2ff and 1:12-17 form a continuous passage of complaint against 2932 17,9 | of the persecution of Antiochus IV Epiphanes, and of the 2933 1,7 | followed by a lamentation over Tire (ch. 27), its prince (28: 2934 5,4 | by her paramour, who had tired of her. Hosea bought her 2935 14,1 | priests that had returned, the Tirshatha deferred the matter until “ 2936 6,8 | Chadach, fol. 154, col 4, 29, Tit). The Rabbi Moshe Goddarshan 2937 16,1 | 3:7-12. Withholding of Tithes.~ C. God’s Loving Protection 2938 4,6 | of special importance in tithing (Deut. 14:28; 26:12) and 2939 17,3 | the Roman military leader Titus. During the siege of Jerusalem 2940 6,0 | looking forward to the captivity in Babylon to which 40-55 2941 11,5 | Huldah about the book of tnc law is not clear (IIKings 2942 18,0 | sections of Jeremiah and “Pro to-Isaiah” and Ezekiel.~ [2] 3:16; 2943 Intro | reward of so doing is even today so difficult for many that 2944 11,5 | 7) would ever have been tolerated from a professional. How 2945 9,2 | ruins of Nineveh. Nahum’s tomb is shown there, but the 2946 4,2 | there is no place for half tones, for fine distinctions between 2947 11,0 | lying and acting as Baruch’s tool (43:3).~ Though the people 2948 1,1 | It is divided into the Torah (Law), Neviim (Prophets), 2949 6,9 | unto the Lord: for He hath torn, and He will heal us; He 2950 6,8 | Himself all the suffering and torture for the sins of the Israelites. 2951 6,8 | it was written: “He was tortured, but suffered willingly… 2952 12,2 | driven from her old territory (Mal. 1:3f). Already by 2953 6,2 | that the message in its totality only became clear to the 2954 11,0 | them into Egypt (43:6). Tough they were unwilling to believe 2955 7,2 | 1, 14), as mall country town in the Shephelah, the low 2956 4,2 | Amos will have visited the towns of Israel on business, and 2957 7,2 | from the standpoint of the townsman in the capital, Micah shows 2958 15,3 | Testament, p. 297f.). The traditional Christian interpretation 2959 13,3 | of the vision show strong traces of the winged figures so 2960 6,8 | feels compassion for us” (tractates (Massektoth), Talmud Babli. 2961 3,4 | as main ports for the ore trade).~ There seems little point 2962 6,5 | he was to endure “the contradiction of sinners.” In spite of 2963 16,4 | those moderns who tend to be traditionalists look upon it as a prophecy 2964 Intro | has not had a theological training, if many parts are to be 2965 6,7 | prophet is denounced as a traitor, and turns his back on the 2966 6,5 | priestly and prophetic traits are all blended does justice 2967 13,7 | prophecies begins with a long trance-vision (chs. 8-11). The presence 2968 13,5 | hand, the extremely vivid trance-visions may point to some abnormality 2969 6,5 | the cost of the loss of Trans-Jordan and Galilee, whose inhabitants 2970 11,8 | Israel, but in saving it transcends it, just as He does not 2971 17,3 | Daniel would have made the transfer at what seemed the most 2972 5,7 | 7:2, ISam. 13:5). Hosea transfers its name, meaning House-of-vanity, 2973 1,8 | ye be smitten any more, transgressing more and more? The whole 2974 5,4 | fifteen shekels of silver (translate in 3:2, “…even an homer 2975 17,3 | is no difficulty in the translator’s use of words which had 2976 18,2 | but not always, show, the translators have often been afraid of 2977 15,3 | well. Normally it simply transliterates Zeba’oth as Sebaoth, but 2978 5,3 | mean Jehovah. Later scribes transmogrified these names to avoid the 2979 13,7 | form of a hand, for his transportation is by virtue of the spirit. 2980 12,3 | halves of ver. 15 have been transposed, perhaps through an early 2981 7,5 | Judah, Mic. 4:1-5 as a contrast with the present heathen 2982 6,9 | His hand. He shall see the travail of His soul, and shall be 2983 11,4 | his own family (12:6) was treacherously plotting his murder (11: 2984 5,2 | the prophets yield greater treasure. No other prophet comes 2985 5,2 | the book represents the treasured memories of his devoted 2986 16,4 | s table (ver 8), and by treating the whole matter as indifferent 2987 16,4 | Him. This” would suit a treatise on comparative religion 2988 12,1 | Aalders (Aalders: Recent Trends in Old Testament Criticism, 2989 13,2 | No appeal may be made to tributaries, for the whole point is 2990 11,0 | IIKings 23:34), and a heavy tribute. Once again the House of 2991 6,2 | such a view, for the attribution of passages from “Deutero-” 2992 2,5 | now the feast of the Holy Trinity, Acts. 2:16). The coming 2993 6,0 | Trio-Isaiah” (Chs. 56-66). ~ Unlike 2994 11,3 | visionary action. The round trip would be some 800 miles, 2995 6,1 | countries with Lydia formed a triple alliance dominating the 2996 5,7 | in Hosea’s own life love triumphed over sin and degradation, 2997 1,8 | people, her victories and triumphs which they see before them? 2998 5,3 | during the attempt to introduce the worship of Melkart, 2999 14,1 | professional prophets. Nehemiah was troubled by them (Neh. 6:10-14), 3000 11,1 | show the royal attitude to troublesome prophets, and the danger