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I. Introduction Our purpose is to render a commentary on Isaiah chapter fifty-five. Isaiah’s prophetic ministry was to Judah (and beyond!), and began in the year king Uzziah died (740 BC, Isa 6:1); it lasted through the reigns of Jotham (c. 742-735 BC-W.F. Albright), Ahaz (c. 735-715 BC-W.F. Albright), and Hezekiah (c. 715-686 BC-E. […]
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I. Introduction Our purpose is to render a commentary on Isaiah chapter fifty-four. Isaiah’s prophetic ministry was to Judah (and beyond!), and began in the year king Uzziah died (740 BC, Isa 6:1); it lasted through the reigns of Jotham (c. 742-735 BC-W.F. Albright), Ahaz (c. 735-715 BC-W.F. Albright), and Hezekiah (c. 715-686 BC-E.
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I. Introduction Our purpose is to render a commentary on Isaiah chapter fifty-three. Isaiah’s prophetic ministry was to Judah (and beyond!), and began in the year king Uzziah died (740 BC, Isa 6:1); it lasted through the reigns of Jotham (c. 742-735 BC-W.F. Albright), Ahaz (c. 735-715 BC-W.F. Albright), and Hezekiah (c. 715-686 BC-E.
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Introduction I. The reader may wish to peruse our commentary on Isaiah, chapter fifty-three, as a preparatory introduction to this commentary. This prophetic chapter of Isaiah is a pivotal one. A door on its hinges swings open here, swinging from captivity and dismay and sorrow in chapter fifty-one (Isaiah 51:1ff), through the
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I. Introduction Our purpose is to render a commentary on Isaiah chapter fifty. This chapter finds Isaiah (the Holy Spirit): (1) delineating the Sin which has caused his people’s Misery (iniquities and transgressions, and in no small way rejection of God’s offer to help them, by way of His servants, pull free of their Misery),
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I. Introduction Long before John the Apostle was given a vision of the Terrible End in the first-century AD, Isaiah the Prophet was shown the same in detail some eight centuries earlier[1]. That vision of Isaiah is the subject of this chapter. And what Isaiah saw and relates to us here is exceeding grim,
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I. Introduction Our purpose is to render a commentary on Ecclesiastes chapter three. Who wrote the Book of Ecclesiastes, and when? The verses Ecc 1:1 and Ecc1:12-13 bode very strongly for Solomon as the author, but Ecc 2:9 (the tension lies with the plural “all who preceded me in Jerusalem”), and the language of
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I. Introduction Our purpose is to render a commentary on Colossians chapter one. We will follow this format: Verse of Scripture utilizing the YLT text followed by an NASB mouse-over of that verse. Key words in the YLT text will be footnoted with a link to a word study based on the Greek text,
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I. Introduction Our purpose is to render a commentary on First John chapter one. We will follow this format: Verse of Scripture utilizing the YLT text followed by an NASB mouseover of that verse. Key words in the YLT text will be footnoted with a link to a word study based on the Greek
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