Isaiah a New Translation; With a Preliminary Dissertation and Notes, Critical, Philological, and Explanatory (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1815 Excerpt: ...a woman to bring forth a child; and seems much more properly applicable to this passage of Isaiah, than to any others of the same prophet, to which some interpreters have applied it. St. Matthew therefore in applying this prophecy to the birth of Christ, does it not merely in the way of accommodating the words of the prophet to a suitable case not in the prophet's view; but takes it m its strictest, clearest, and most important sense, and applies it according to the original design and principal intention of the prophet. 17. But jEHovin will bring Houbigant reads vnrt, from LXX.; etwue mt5- i Oi: to mark the transition to a new subject. Ibid. Even the king of Assyria--Houbigant supposes these words to have been a marginal gloss, brought into the text by mistake: and so likewise Archbishop Seeker. Besides their having no force or effect here, tjiey do not join well in construction with the words preceding: as may be seen by the strange manner in which the ancient interpreters have taken them; and they very inelegantly forestall the mention of the king of Assyria, which comes in with great propriety in the 20th verse. I have therefore taken the liberty of omitting them in the translation. 18.--hist the fly See Note on ch. v. 26. Ibid. Egypt and Assyria Senacherib, Esarhaddon, Pharaoh Xecho. and Nebuchadnezzar, who one after another desolated Judea. 19.--caverns So LXX. Syr. Vulg. whence Houbigant supposes the true reading to be cYmrr. 20.--the river That is, the Euphrates;-7nn, so read the LXX. and two MSS. Ibid. Jshovah shall shave by the hired razor--To shave with the hired razor the head, the feet, and the beard, is an expression highly parabolical; to denote the utter devastation of the country from one end to the other, and the plundering of the peo...