Category: STUDIES IN ISAIAH by F C Jennings
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STUDIES IN ISAIAH, By F. C. Jennings, Chapter 27
Leviathan; its meaning and application. What the close scales stand for.Rome’s scales; Rationalism’s scales. Israel as the fruit-bearing vine ofthe future. The nation, but not the same individuals, restored. This is the closing chapter of this part of Isaiah; the next evidently introduces another sub-division. Whilst the strange mystic language…
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STUDIES IN ISAIAH, By F. C. Jennings, Chapter 26
The Tale of Two Cities. Is Jehovah the Name that is intended for Christians?The resurrection of the nation of the Jews a figure of the personal resurrection. In chapters 25 and 26, as in our prophecy called “Revelation,” we have what might be termed The Tale of Two Cities; the…
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STUDIES IN ISAIAH, By F. C. Jennings, Chapter 25
Song of Israel forgiven and restored. What are the “wines on the lees”?The veil over all flesh. Moab; who is meant? Now we consider, and I trust with some true delight, a wondrously beautiful chapter. The strains of those ancient prophets are for the most part sad rather than joyous,…
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STUDIES IN ISAIAH, By F. C. Jennings, Chapter 24
The whole world comes into judgment. What is the everlasting covenant?The city that becomes “tohu.” The pessimism of prophecy.The song turned to a groan. The earth’s regeneration, precededby judgment on both heavens and earth. So interesting and valuable have I found the writing of Delitzsch on this section, that I…
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STUDIES IN ISAIAH, By F. C. Jennings, Chapter 23
The Burden of Tyre. What Tyre symbolizes. Significance of Tyre distributingcrowns. The strange recovery of Tyre, as still a harlot and yet herhire to be “holiness to the Lord”; explanation of the apparent anomaly. We are now brought to the last “burden” of the series of five. The first was…
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STUDIES IN ISAIAH, By F. C. Jennings, Chapter 22
The burden of the Valley of Vision: the meaning of that term.The merriment of the doomed; preparations for resistance; the visiontold in order that penitence may avert it. Whom does Shebna represent?His deposition; his place taken by Eliakim. Who is thus named?The difficulty of the last verse. The chapter to…
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STUDIES IN ISAIAH, By F. C. Jennings, Chapter 21
The Burdens of countries, known by emblems. Babylon first; why emblemed by “desert of the sea.”The prophets grief at the vision. The watchman and what he sees. Significance of the roar of a lion. The second scene, the return of theexpedition. Babylon fallen. Burden of Dumah: the source and meaningof…
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STUDIES IN ISAIAH, By F. C. Jennings, Chapter 20
Egypt a symbolic nation of vain-confidence. The three years’ sign.The nakedness not the extreme as with us. The discord of evil. In conformity with a plan that frequently governs the prophetic writing, after having taken us down to the end of the ways of God with the earth, as far…
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STUDIES IN ISAIAH, By F. C. Jennings, Chapter 19
The burden of Egypt. Who is the “cruel lord”? The conversion of Egypt.The blow that heals. Jehovah’s threefold blessing. We have found, I trust, something of a “living issue,” as it is termed, in each of the “burdens” that have preceded the one to which we have come, and this…
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STUDIES IN ISAIAH, By F. C. Jennings, Chapter 18
What people are designated as “scattered and peeled”? Which is the “land thatshadows”? What are the vessels of bulrushes? How can rivers spoil a land? We have now come to a chapter, short indeed, but full of thrilling interest to every lover of the Word of God, and especially to…
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STUDIES IN ISAIAH, By F. C. Jennings, Chapter 17
The Burden of Damascus. History ever repeats itself. Once more the rod of the Lord falls, and now it strikes Damascus, the representative city of Syria. But as the ten tribes have joined themselves to Syria, entering into an offensive alliance with it against Judah and the House of David…
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STUDIES IN ISAIAH, By F. C. Jennings, Chapter 16
The Burden of Moab, continued. Pride the cause of sorrow. The burden of Moab is continued, and the chapter, a continuation of its predecessor, begins with the Spirit’s counsel to Moab by the pen of the prophet thus: 1: Send ye the lambs to the Lord of the land,Send them…
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STUDIES IN ISAIAH, By F. C. Jennings, Chapter 15
The Burden of Moab. A picture of the sorrow that workethdeath. One song amid earths groans glorifies God who alonegiveth songs in the night. A balance to this. This chapter continues the “burdens,” and also continues the intensely animated style of its predecessor. We are tempted to pass them by,…
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STUDIES IN ISAIAH, By F. C. Jennings, Chapter 14
A complete revolution; the slave becomes the master, issuing in a song oftriumph over Babylon. Sh’ohl and its shades. Lucifer; for whom does thatword stand? The problem of the existence of evil in the world: whence could itcome, the one Creator being absolute Good? Our foe’s first appellation nowborne by…
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STUDIES IN ISAIAH, By F. C. Jennings, Chapter 13
Burden of Babylon. Force of the word “sanctified.” The strange creaturesthat take up abode in Babylon; why their names are not to be translated. A thorough change now comes over the spirit of our book. Assyria is no longer the prominent oppressor. The stout heart of the Assyrian has been…
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STUDIES IN ISAIAH, By F. C. Jennings, Chapter 12
Israel’s song when Jerusalem’s walls become no longerwailing-places, but resound with joyful praise. It will be noted that, in these later chapters, the past deliverance of Israel from Egypt has provided a pattern of the future and final deliverance from every yoke; and as then, as soon as they had…
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STUDIES IN ISAIAH, By F. C. Jennings, Chapter 11
Israel’s revival in The Branch. His divine qualifications.picture of earth’s happiness under His rule. In what we have just considered, we have seen the Imperial World-power, here termed the Assyrian, in its pride and doom (chapter 10:3-19). Then an assumed picture of the last attack of that World-power on Jerusalem…
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STUDIES IN ISAIAH, By F. C. Jennings, Chapter 10
A corrupt judiciary means the destruction of the basis on which the social structure rests.Who is the Assyrian? Where shall he be found in the last days of Israel’s history? Hispride insures his doom. A picture drawn of an invasion in order that it may be averted. This chapter should…
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STUDIES IN ISAIAH, By F. C. Jennings, Chapter 9
Light appears where least expected. Can these words be applied to Christmas Day?Peace at last! What is in the Name? Growth here suggests growth in heaven.Is Christ’s kingdom everlasting if it be given up? The sad refrain. Dense indeed was the darkness in which the last chapter closed, but as…
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STUDIES IN ISAIAH, By F. C. Jennings, Chapter 8
Hebrew names are divinely intended to teach truths: The refusal of Shiloah: Wherethose waters are still flowing: The invasion of Immanuel’s Land: Counsel as toconsulting the dead: The Rock of the Word: Sorrowful condition of the deluded. The opening words, “Moreover the Lord said,” mark a new subsection of the…
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