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Excerpt from The Biblical Illustrator, or Anecdotes, Similes, Emblems, Illustrations, Vol. 1: Expository, Scientific, Geographical, Historical, and Homiletic, Gathered From a Wide Range of Home and Foreign Literature, on the Verses of the Bible; Isaiah
Amaziah; and his royal descent has been inferred from his familiarity with successive monarchs of Judah, and his general political influence. A stronger reason than these might be drawn from the presence in his name of Jehovah. Which appears to have been confined at the earlier periods of Israel's history to pro r names of the royal houses. But even this is not conclusive, and one rea y knows nothing of either Isaiah's forefathers or his upbringing. He was married, his wife is called the prophetess (viii. And he had two sons to whom he gave names symbolic of those aspects of the nation's history which be enforced in his prophecies She'ar-yashab, A remnant shall return, who was old enough in 736-735 to be taken by his father when he went to face Kin Ahaz (vii. And Maher-shalal-hash-baz, Spoil-speeds-booty-hastes, who was rn about a year later (viii. 1 The legend that Isaiah was twice married has been deduced from the false inference that the oung woman of marriageable age (vii. 14) was his wife. By this expression t e prophet probably did not mean a definite individual. The most certain and significant fact about Isaiah is that he was a citizen, if not a native, of Jerusalem, and had constant access to the court and presence of the king. Jerusalem is Isaiah's immediate and ultimate regard, the centre and return of all his thoughts, the hinge of the history of his time, the summit of those brilliant hopes with which he fills the future. (prof. G. A. Smith, D.D.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
