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COMMENTARY

ON

THE PROPHET ISAIAH.

VOL. I.

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Acting and Editorial Secretary, Robert Pitcairn, F.S.A.Sc. Office, 9, Northumberland Street, Edinburgh.

COMMENTARY

ON THE

BOOK OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH.

BY JOHN CALVIN.

TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL LATIN,

BY THE REV. WILLIAM PRINGLE.

VOLUME FIRST.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR THE CALVIN TRANSLATION SOCIETY.

M.DCCC.L.

BX

9430 A23

1844

1013

[Entered at Stationers' Hall.]

EDINBURGH: PRINTED BY T. CONSTABLE, PRINTER TO HER MAJESTY.

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.

ALL who take delight in the Holy Scriptures are familiarly acquainted with the writings of THE PROPHET ISAIAH. Every variety of taste finds in them its appropriate gratification. Lofty conceptions, illustrated by splendid imagery, and clothed in language usually copious and flowing, sometimes abrupt, but always graceful, leave no room for hesitation to pronounce him, with BISHOP LOWTH, to be "the most. sublime and elegant of the Prophets of the Old Testament." He is regarded with peculiar veneration as an honest, fearless, and able messenger of the Most High GOD, boldly reproving nobles and monarchs, denouncing the judgments of Heaven against all transgressors, and asserting the claims. of the Divine law and government above all human authority. In his Prophecies he takes a wide range, surveys those nations which power or wealth or learning or commerce had raised to the highest celebrity in those remote times, and describes their rise and fall, and wonderful revolutions, so eagerly traced by us in the page of history, as the execution of JEHOVAH'S counsels, and the arrangements of unerring wisdom. But chiefly does he pour out rich instruction concerning the MESSIAH, whose life and sufferings, and death. and glorious reign, he delineates so faithfully, and with such thrilling interest, that he has obtained the appellation. of" THE EVANGELICAL PROPHET." To the devout reader

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