CHAPTER I
THE ARGUMENT OF THE LORD AND ITS CONCLUSION
Isaiah 1:1 -His General Preface
THE first chapter of the Book of Isaiah owes its position not to its
date, but to its character. It was published late in the prophet's
life. The seventh verse describes the land as overrun by foreign
soldiery, a... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER XIX
AT THE LOWEST EBB
Isaiah 1:1; Isaiah 22:1
IN the drama of Isaiah's life we have now arrived at the final act-a
short and sharp one of a few months. The time is 701 B.C., the
fortieth year of Isaiah's ministry, and about the twenty-sixth of
Hezekiah's reign. The background is the invas... [ Continue Reading ]