Search -
Hebrew Politics in the Times of Sargon and Sennacherib
Hebrew Politics in the Times of Sargon and Sennacherib Author:Edward Strachey General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1874 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. ISAIAH II., III., IV. -- HEBREW GENIUS IMAGINATIVE RATHER THAN LOGICAL. -- PERFECT AND IMPERFECT TENSES IN HEBREW. -- THB LAST DAYS. -- CONTRAST OP THE IDEAL AND ACTUAL STATE OF THE NATION. -- FOREIGN INFLUENCES. -- PRIVATE IDOLATRY. -- POLITICAL MATERIALISM. -- NATIONAL DECAY. -- LAWS OF GOD'S GOVERNMENT OF THE WORLD. -- GOOD AND EVIL OF COMMERCE. HEBREW MATRONS. FEMALE LUXURY. -- ITS PUNISHMENT. -- THE BRANCH OF JEHOVAH. -- THE RESTORED THOUGH HUMBLED NATION. THE next discourse, consisting of chapters ii., iii., iv., is entitled, ' The Word that Isaiah the son of Amos saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.' The propriety of applying the phrase ' saw ' to ' the Word ' is apparent, if we refer ourselves to the mental process which takes place in meditating upon any important truth, especially while the vividness of the first discovery lasts; and still more is it obvious, as we read the discourse itself, and look at its various pictures of military power, maritime commerce, wealth, luxury, pride, selfishness, and irreligion ; of political misgovernment, anarchy, and decay; and of ultimate reform and restoration. No arguments need be added to prove that the prophecy depicts the state of society in the period between the latter end of the reign of Uzziah and the beginning of that of Ahaz, and that we may properly fix the date of its delivery within those limits, and when the prospects of the reign of Ahaz were coming into view. The initial ' And' here, as in chapters vi. 1 ; vii. 1 ; viii. 1 ; and elsewhere, may be among the indications that the book has been revised and edited by the author...« less