Isaiah
Introduction
Isaiah,
meaning save thou Jehovah or salvation of the Lord, is
believed to have lived c. 740-680 BC, the scope of his writing embracing the
vast epoch from the creation of the heavens and earth to their replacement
by the new heavens and earth foretold in 65:17 “... behold, I create new
heavens and a new earth ....”
The purview
includes the Lord’s birth, ministry, death, resurrection, and coming
glorious reign, the miracle and magnitude of Divine grace running like a
scarlet thread through the fabric of the book.
Relative to
the legitimacy of the book and it’s human author who wrote as God’s
amanuensis, others more capable than I have effectively dealt with such
matters, so they are not discussed in this commentary, it being assumed that
the average reader doesn’t question them.
The study is
presented with the prayer that God will use it for His own glory, and the
blessing of its readers.
