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_Professor of Hebrew in the Free Church College, Glasgow_
_IN TWO VOLUMES_ VOL. I.--ISAIAH I.-XXXIX.
_Printed by Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ltd., London and Aylesbury._
_ISAIAH'S PREFACE AND PROPHECIES TO THE DEATH OF AHAZ_, 727 B.C.
I. ISAIAH'S PREFACE--THE ARGUMENT OF THE LORD. 3
ISAIAH vi. 740. WRITTEN 735 OR 727 B.C. (?).
V. THE WORLD IN ISAIAH'S DAY AND ISRAEL'S GOD 91
VI. KING AND MESSIAH; PEOPLE AND CHURCH 103
_PROPHECIES FROM THE ACCESSION OF HEZEKIAH TO THE DEATH OF SARGON_, 727-705 B.C.
IX. ATHEISM OF FORCE AND ATHEISM OF FEAR 168
X. THE SPIRIT OF GOD IN MAN AND THE ANIMALS 179
ISAIAH xx. (711 B.C.); xxi. 1-10 (710 B.C.); xxxviii.; xxxix.
_ORATIONS ON INTRIGUES WITH EGYPT_, _AND ORACLES ON FOREIGN NATIONS_, 705-702 B.C.
XV. A MAN; OR, CHARACTER AND THE CAPACITY TO DISCRIMINATE CHARACTER 248
ISAIAH xiv. 24-xxi.; xxiii. VARIOUS DATES.
XVIII. TYRE; OR, THE MERCENARY SPIRIT 288
XX. THE TURN OF THE TIDE: MORAL EFFECTS OF FORGIVENESS 320
XXII. THE RABSHAKEH; OR, LAST TRIALS OF FAITH 343
XXIII. THIS IS THE VICTORY ... OUR FAITH 352
XXIV. A REVIEW OF ISAIAH'S PREDICTIONS CONCERNING THE DELIVERANCE OF JERUSALEM 368
XXV. AN OLD TESTAMENT BELIEVER'S SICK-BED; OR, THE DIFFERENCE CHRIST HAS MADE 375
XXVI. HAD ISAIAH A GOSPEL FOR THE INDIVIDUAL? 389
_PROPHECIES NOT RELATING TO ISAIAH'S TIME._
XXVIII. THE EFFECT OF SIN ON OUR MATERIAL SURROUNDINGS 416
ISAIAH xxv.-xxvii.; xxxiv.; xxxv. DATES UNKNOWN.
As the following Exposition of the Book of Isaiah does not observe the canonical arrangement of the chapters, a short introduction is necessary upon the plan which has been adopted.
The size and the many obscurities of the Book of Isaiah have limited the common use of it in the English tongue to single conspicuous passages, the very brilliance of which has cast their context and original circumstance into deeper shade. The intensity of the gratitude with which men have seized upon the more evangelical passages of Isaiah, as well as the attention which apologists for Christianity have too partially paid to his intimations of the Messiah, has confirmed the neglect of the rest of the Book. But we might as well expect to receive an adequate conception of a great statesman's policy from the epigrams and perorations of his speeches as to appreciate the message, which God has sent to the world through the Book of Isaiah, from a few lectures on isolated, and often dislocated, texts. No book of the Bible is less susceptible of treatment apart from the history out of which it sprang than the Book of Isaiah; and it may be added, that in the Old Testament at least there is none which, when set in its original circumstance and methodically considered as a whole, appeals with greater power to the modern conscience. Patiently to learn how these great prophecies were suggested by, and first met, the actual occasions of human life, is vividly to hear them speaking home to life still.