Expositor's Bible: The Book of Isaiah

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Author：George Adam Smith
Update：08-15-2023
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Chapter 1
Chapter v., with its appendix, exhibits more grasp and method than its predecessors. Its literary form is finished, its feeling clear. There is a tenderness in the beginning of it, an inexorableness in the end and an eagerness all through, which stamp the chapter as Isaiah"s final appeal to his countrymen at this period of his career.
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Chapter 6
Chapter of the _Acts_. There may be, as well, a carnal confidence upon misunderstood and misapplied precepts, which may be called spiritual drunkenness. There may be a _Covenant_ made with Death and h.e.l.l! I will not say yours was so. But judge if such things have a politic aim: To avoid the overflowing scourge; or, To accomplish worldly interests? And if therein you have confederated with wicked and carnal men, and have respect for them, or otherwise have drawn them in to a.s.sociate with us, Whether this be a covenant of G.o.d and spiritual?
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Chapter 10
Chapter I.) allowed them to make their worship so mechanical and material--for how could they have been satisfied with mere forms if they had but once conceived of G.o.d as having even ordinary intelligence?--and which turned their political life into such a ma.s.s of intrigue, conceit and falsehood, for how could they have dared to suppose that they would get their own way, or have been so sure of their own cleverness, if only they had had a glimpse of the perception, that G.o.d, the Ruler of the world, had also His policy regarding them? They believed He was the Mighty, they believed He was the Merciful, but because they forgot that He was the Wise and the Worker by law, their faith in His might too often turned into superst.i.tious terror, their faith in His mercy oscillated between the sleepy satisfaction that He was an indulgent G.o.d and the fretful impatience that He was an indifferent one. Therefore Isaiah persisted from first to last in this: that G.o.d worked by law; that He had His plan for Judah, as well as these politicians; and, as we shall shortly find him reminding them when intoxicated with their own cleverness, _that He also is wise_ (x.x.xi. 2). Here by the same thought he bids them be at peace, and upon the rushing tides of politics, drawing them to that or the other mad venture, to swing by this anchor: that G.o.d has His own law and time for everything. No man could bring the charge of fatalism against such a policy of quietness. For it thrilled with intelligent appreciation of the Divine method. When Isaiah said, _In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and confidence shall be your strength_, he did not ask his restless countrymen to yield sullenly to an infinite force or to bow in stupidity beneath the inscrutable will of an arbitrary despot, but to bring their conduct into harmony with a reasonable and gracious plan, which might be read in the historical events of the time, and was vindicated by the loftiest religious convictions. Isaiah preached no submission to fate, but reverence for an all-wise Ruler, whose method was plain to every clear-sighted observer of the fortunes of the nations of the world, and whose purpose could only be love and peace to His own people (cf. p.
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Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24