Unfortunately, this book has a number of problems and weaknesses that render it inferior to the other commentaries on Isaiah currently available to Latter-day Saint readers. There are a number of grammatical errors, misspelled words, and other minor mistakes throughout the book. The writing style...
Melugin, R F 1997. The Book of Isaiah and the Construction of Meaning, in Broyles, C C & Evans, C A (eds), Writing and Reading the Scroll of Isaiah: Studies of Interpretive Tradition, Vol. 1. VTSup 71. Leiden: Brill, 39-55....
Isaiah 43:1-2says, “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall...
The book of Isaiah, written in 760 BC, is one of the most amazing books in the bible, and in fact is a template for the entire bible itself.
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As, however, the position of affairs was not materially changed under the reign of Jotham, we may say that the first chapter was uttered during that reign. The continuation of prophetic authorship, or the writing down of uttered prophecies, depended upon the commencement of new historical ...
and the writing is delivered to him that is not learned, saying: 'Read this, I pray thee'; and he saith: 'I am not learned.'Brenton Septuagint TranslationAnd this book shall be given into the hands of a man that is unlearned, and one shall say to him, Read this; and he shall ...
he chose suchunambiguouslanguage and spoke with so much moral certainty that, as people normally do, his hearers tuned him out; he was foredoomed to speak unheard. A great deal of anguished living intervened between the vision itself and the writing of it. His words “How long, O Lord?”...
all of a sudden, he’s no longer the learned Jewish Christian apologist; he’s just a guy complaining about life. He begins writing in the first person and bemoaning his inability to carry through with his best intentions. It’s like, “Dear Diary, I really screwed up and I don’t ...
in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit." Peter uses the same allegory when writing about the church as a living stone. "BEHOLD I LAY IN ZION A CHOICE STONE, A PRECIOUS CORNER stone, AND HE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM SHALL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED" (1 Pe...