This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...us smooth things, Prophesy deceits: 1 Syr. Vg. Tar. for a witness for ever. advance to be fruitless. Rahab, etc.: these words are very obscure. Almost all that is certain is that Rahab, a mythological monster (Job 9: 13), stands for Egypt (Ps. 87: 4) with her blustering but impotent arrogance. 30:8-17. Isaiah's message ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...us smooth things, Prophesy deceits: 1 Syr. Vg. Tar. for a witness for ever. advance to be fruitless. Rahab, etc.: these words are very obscure. Almost all that is certain is that Rahab, a mythological monster (Job 9: 13), stands for Egypt (Ps. 87: 4) with her blustering but impotent arrogance. 30:8-17. Isaiah's message has been received with mockery (28: 10, 14). He therefore retires to his house, and commits it to writing as an everlasting witness to the unbelief of his people. 8. Now that the message had been spurned (cf. 8:16-18). The it is the message, whether the substance of Chaps. 28-30 or more briefly the fine summary of it in 30: 15 f. Read, with margin, for a witness forever. 9 f. The law of Jehovah is instruction such as Isaiah had given (cf. 1: 10). There were others like-minded with Isaiah, seers and prophets, whose words were also spurned. In vs. 10, as in 28: 15, Isaiah puts his own estimate into the mouth of the people when he makes them say prophesy illusions (or delusions). 11. Get you out of the way, Turn aside out of the path, Cause the Holy One of Israel To cease from before us." 12. Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, "Because ye despise this word, And trust in 1 oppression and perverseness, And stay thereon; 13. Therefore this iniquity Shall be to you As a breach ready to fall, Swelling out in a high wall, Whose breaking cometh suddenly At an instant." 14. And he shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken, Breaking it in pieces without sparing; So that there shall not be found Among the pieces thereof a sherd2 1 Gr. falsehood. 3 SV adds wherewith. 11. Get ye out of the way, i.e. your way of teaching: the people request the prophets to give up their threatening and alarming message, and to trouble them no mor...
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