(पुराना वसीयतनामा

isaiah's Usage Examples:

Thus Isaiah became in that troubled age the true founder of Messianic prophecy.

The talismanic name Immanuel became the nucleus out of which the later Messianic prophecies of Isaiah grew.

9-10) in the dark days of Ahaz (735-734 B.C.) were among the oracles which God commanded Isaiah " to seal up among his disciples " (verse 16), and that they were quoted once more with effect as the armies of Sennacherib closed around Jerusalem.

The religion of the Hebrew race - properly the Jews - now enters on a new stage, for it should be observed that it was Amos, Isaiah and Micah - prophets of Judah - who laid the actual foundations.

In Isaiah both aspects - divine universal sovereignty and justice, taught by Amos, and divine loving-kindness to Israel and God's claims on His people's allegiance, taught by Hosea - are fully expressed.

In the exile, but probably after 50o B.C., an important section of the Hexateuch, usually called the Priest's Code (P), was drawn up. At various times in the same century are to be placed the book of Job, the post-exilic parts of Isaiah, the books of Joel, Jonah, Malachi and the Song of Songs.

To the same period belong the book of Micah, the earlier parts of the books of Samuel, of Isaiah and of Proverbs, and perhaps some Psalms. In 722 B.C. Samaria was taken and the Northern kingdom ceased to exist.

In addition to these complete commentaries, we have fragments of some others (of that on Isaiah, for example), principally met with in catenae.

Even more insistently does Isaiah present the great truth of God's universal sovereignty.

Unlike Amos and Micah, Isaiah was not only the prophet of denunciation but also the prophet of hope.

isaiah's Meaning':

(Old Testament