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This is a commentary on the first 39 chapters of the Biblical book of Isaiah. It was
written to help ministers with their sermon preparation. Many of the thoughts presented are
condensed from published sermons. The book is a collection of man’s opinions on the
inspired Word of God. The Transcriber does not necessarily agree with every opinion expressed.
Among the disagreements are suggestions that the Church replaces Israel, or is “the true Israel,”
or that human effort has any effect on God’s pacing of future events.
Some of the opinions expressed are unapologetically anti-Roman Catholic or culturally insensitive. The book is a product
of its time and place (late nineteenth century greater London). The U.S. conflict between North and
South is still within memory and neither the great European wars to come, nor England’s loss
of her colonial possessions in India and Africa, nor the establishment of the State of Israel is even foreshadowed.
The page numbers in the first part of the book (“front-matter”) and
the last part of the book (“back-matter”) were modified from unadorned
Arabic numbers to make them unique. In this e-book, front-matter pages are identified
by lower-cased Roman numbers and back-matter pages include the letter “A”
(for “Appendix”) and either an “L” or an “R” to
identify the left or right column. The [Appendix] presents two translations of the
whole book of Isaiah and two additional translations of the fifty-second and fifth-third
chapters.
In the original, the outlines are generally in order by scripture reference and information in the
page headers helps one find an outline related to any desired passage. Due to the length
of the e-book, and the supplemental outlines added toward the end, the Transcriber
has inserted a listing of outlines in sequential order by scripture reference after
the Index of Subjects, Index of Authors, and table of Times, Seasons, and Occasions, and prior to the Introduction.
The footnotes in the text are identified by sequential lower-case Greek letters: α, β, etc.
The Transcriber has changed them to superscript bracketed numbers to comply with current use. In the main
portion of the book, the “footnotes” were set in smaller type at the end of the respective outlines.
In the Appendix, footnotes were set at the bottom of each page. The text and each footnote are hyperlinked both directions.