141
Chap. xxiii.--The Burden upon Tyre, 146
Chaps. xxiv.-xxvii., 149
Chaps. xxviii.-xxxiii., 154
Chap. xxxv., 158
General Preliminary Remarks on Chaps, xl.-lxvi., 163
Chap. xlii. 1-9, 196
Chap. xlix. 1-9, 226
Chap. 1. 4-11, 246
Chap. li. 16, 256
Chaps. lii. 13-liii. 12, 259
I. History of the Interpretation.
A. With the Jews, 311
B. History of the Interpretation with the Christians, 319
II. The Arguments against the Messianic Interpretation, 327
III. The Arguments in favour of the Messianic
Interpretation, 330
IV. Examination of the Non-Messianic Interpretation, 334
Chap. lv. 1-5, 343
Chap. lxi. 1-3, 351
THE PROPHET ZEPHANIAH, 356
THE PROPHET JEREMIAH.
General Preliminary Remarks, 362
Chap. iii. 14-17, 373
Chap. xxiii. 1-8, 398
Chap. xxxi. 31-40, 424
Chap. xxxiii. 14-26, 459

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THE PROPHET ISAIAH.

GENERAL PRELIMINARY REMARKS.

Isaiah is the principal prophetical figure in the first period of
canonical prophetism, _i.e._, the Assyrian period, just as Jeremiah is
in the second, _i.e._, the Babylonian. With Isaiah are connected in the
kingdom of Judah: Joel, Obadiah, and Micah; in the kingdom of Israel:
Hosea, Amos, and Jonah.

The name "Isaiah" signifies the "Salvation of the Lord." In this name
we have the key-note of his prophecies, just as the name Jeremiah: "The
Lord casts down," indicates the nature of his prophecies, in which the
prevailing element is entirely of a thre