I am finding so much to mull over in the concise choice of words of this book. The challenge is to find the right words and phrases in my own vocabulary to convey my own thoughts and understanding of the author’s meaning clearly. I hope I can do it justice, I’d love to have fee...
"Ariel' is clearly a mystic name for Jerusalem, parallel to "Sheshach" as a name for Babylon (Jeremiah 25:26) and "'Ir-ha-heres" as a name for Heliopolis (Isaiah 19:18). It is generally explained as equivalent to Art-El, "lion of God;" but Delitzsch suggests the meaning of "...
but one does not thresh it forever;one drives the cart wheel and horses over it, but does not pulverize it.29 This also comes from the Lord of hosts; he is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom. Footnotes Isaiah 28:10 Meaning of Heb of this verse uncertain Isaiah 28:13 Meanin...
The Lord Will Judge Babylon - This is an oracle about Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz saw: On a bare hill raise a signal flag; shout to them, wave
Rather, it was designed to explain to the Jews, who had expected the Messiah when He came to be a conquering king, why instead Yeshua suffered and died, and why there was the resulting postponement of His triumph to His second coming. The gospel of Matthew, with its many quotations from...
Nor should it then be the point of the meaning contribution from a fuller recognition of the activated metaleptic meaning potential in an interpretation.112 Rather, the shared meaning potential of the evoked texts (Deut 32, Deutero-Isaiah, and Dan 12) includes as an overall constellation the ...
The meaning of having more choice was that one enjoyed greater freedom. If there was a Zionist achievement, that was the heart of it. By presenting such an argument Berlin had made a claim that is political as well as philosophical, one that neither extreme Zionists in the 1940s nor ...
Wright argues that the central colon in Isaiah 2:11 actually is out of place and is "secondary" - meaning that it was added later by someone other than the original author. Thus, he feels that the original text in verse 16 and neighboring verses were written in pure bicola and that the...