The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary, Isaiah 1-39

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Author

Tucker, Alfred, 1849-1914

Title

The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Books of the Bible, Volume 15 (of 32) The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, Volume I

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Produced by John Hagerson and Mrs. Faith Ball

Language

English

LoC Class

BS: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Christianity: The Bible, Old and New Testament

Subject

Bible. Isaiah -- Commentaries

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Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 58062

Release Date

October 9, 2018

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES. — THE PREACHER’S — COMPLETE HOMILETIC — COMMENTARY — ON THE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE — WITH CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES, INDEXES, ETC., BY VARIOUS AUTHORS
2. 2.The Preacher’s Complete Homiletic — COMMENTARY — Isaiah — Volume I — By the REV. R. A. BERTRAM and The REV. ALFRED TUCKER — FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
3. 3.PREFATORY NOTES.
4. 4.CONTENTS. — INDEX OF SUBJECTS. — INDEX OF AUTHORS. — TIMES, SEASONS, AND OCCASIONS. — TEXTS. — APPENDIX. — ISAIAH. — INTRODUCTION. — FOOTNOTES. — The Prophet of the Lord. — FOOTNOTES. — Prophecy the Voice of God. — An Appeal and an Argument. — FOOTNOTES: — God’s Indictment against Israel. — FOOTNOTES: — Thoughtlessness. — FOOTNOTES: — Inconsiderateness. — FOOTNOTES: — Things to be Considered. — FOOTNOTES: — Religious Consideration. — FOOTNOTES: — Iniquity a Burden. — FOOTNOTES: — Transmitted Depravity. — FOOTNOTES: — Forsaking the Lord. — FOOTNOTES: — Moral Obduracy. — FOOTNOTES: — Needless Stripes. — FOOTNOTES: — Total Depravity. — FOOTNOTES: — God’s Reluctance to Punish. — FOOTNOTES: — The Summons to Jerusalem. — FOOTNOTES: — Rejected Sacrifices. — True and False Religion. — The Possibilities of Public Worship. — FOOTNOTES: — God Oppressed. — FOOTNOTES: — Worthless Husks. — FOOTNOTES: — Reasons for the Rejection of Prayer. — FOOTNOTES: — A Startling Charge. — FOOTNOTES: — Moral Ablution. — FOOTNOTES: — A Plain Command. — FOOTNOTES: — The Great Task. — FOOTNOTES: — The Noblest Art. — FOOTNOTES: — The Oppressed and Their Relief. — FOOTNOTES: — God’s Ideal of Goodness. — FOOTNOTES: — God’s Gracious Invitation to Sinners. — FOOTNOTES: — Cleansing for the Vilest. — FOOTNOTES: — Comfort for the Desponding. — FOOTNOTES: — Sin and Grace. — FOOTNOTES: — Self-scrutiny in God’s Presence. — FOOTNOTES: — Sinners Self-destroyed. — FOOTNOTES: — The Certainty of the Destruction of the Impenitent. — FOOTNOTES: — Moral Declension. — FOOTNOTES: — An Illustrious Inhabitant. — The Possible Degeneracy of Valuable Things. — FOOTNOTES: — A Terrible Resolve. — FOOTNOTES: — The Purpose of Punishment. — FOOTNOTES: — The Divine Idea of Redemption. — FOOTNOTES: — Social Regeneration. — FOOTNOTES: — The Twofold Effect of Divine Judgments. — FOOTNOTES: — Forsaking the Lord. — The Doom of the Apostates. — FOOTNOTES: — The Tow and the Spark. — FOOTNOTES: — Isaiah’s Vision of the Last Days. — The Latter-Day Glory. — FOOTNOTES: — The Future Triumphs of the Gospel. — FOOTNOTES: — The Light of the Lord. — FOOTNOTES: — The Walk of the Soul in the Light of the Lord. — A Terrible Picture. — FOOTNOTES: — God’s People Forsaken. — FOOTNOTES: — Forsaken of God. — FOOTNOTES: — The Material and the Moral. — FOOTNOTES: — The Sinner’s Danger and Refuge. — FOOTNOTES: — The Great Dethronement. — Man’s Insignificance and God’s Supremacy. — Lessons from a National Bereavement. — FOOTNOTES: — The Death of Statesmen. — FOOTNOTES: — National Greatness. — Shameless Sinners. — FOOTNOTES: — Cheering Words and Solemn Warnings. — FOOTNOTES: — The Great Law of Recompense. — The Curse of a Weak Government. — Blind Leaders. — FOOTNOTES: — Oppression of the Poor. — FOOTNOTES: — The Pleader and the Judge. — FOOTNOTES: — Haughtiness. — FOOTNOTES: — Female Pride and Luxury. — FOOTNOTES: — The Desolated and Disorganising Power of War. — FOOTNOTES: — The Divine Ideal of Israel Realised. — FOOTNOTES: — God’s Perpetual Presence with His People. — The Cleansing Spirit. — FOOTNOTES: — The Parable of the Vineyard. — FOOTNOTES: — The Parable of the Vineyard. — Great Privileges. — Divine Disappointments. — FOOTNOTES: — A Sad Canticle. — On the Advantage of Small Allotments of Land to the Poor. — Wild Grapes. — FOOTNOTES: — Covetousness. — FOOTNOTES: — God’s Curse on the Covetous. — FOOTNOTES: — The Miseries of the Drunkard. — FOOTNOTES: — National Ungodliness. — FOOTNOTES: — Sensuality. — FOOTNOTES: — Earthly Amusement. — FOOTNOTES: — Festivity and Forgetfulness. — FOOTNOTES: — The Evils of Ignorance. — FOOTNOTES: — Death and the Grave. — FOOTNOTES: — Cords of Vanity. — Scepticism. — FOOTNOTES: — The Influence of Language on Character. — FOOTNOTES: — The Sin of Confounding Good and Evil. — On the Perversion of Right and Wrong. — The Sin of Using Wrong Names. — Self-Conceit. — FOOTNOTES: — Intellectual Pride. — FOOTNOTES: — The Woe of the Drunkard. — The Woe of the Drunkard. — FOOTNOTES: — Drink and Its Woes. — The Doom of Despisers. — FOOTNOTES: — The Doom of Impenitent Israel. — FOOTNOTES: — Cords and Cart-Ropes. — FOOTNOTES: — The Prophet’s Call. — FOOTNOTES: — The Trinity in Unity. — FOOTNOTES: — Revelations of God. — FOOTNOTES: — Isaiah’s Vision. — FOOTNOTES: — The Seraphim. — FOOTNOTES: — A Glorious Example. — The Seraphim and Their Song. — FOOTNOTES: — A Sight of God and a Sense of Sin. — FOOTNOTES: — Volunteer Service. — FOOTNOTES: — Messengers Wanted. — A Strange and Sad Errand. — FOOTNOTES: — The Rejection of Divine Truth. — FOOTNOTES: — The Duration of the Prophet’s Mission. — FOOTNOTES: — Fears and Comforts. — FOOTNOTES: — Faith’s Impregnable Citadel. — Purpose and Panics. — FOOTNOTES: — Isaiah’s Interview with Ahaz. — FOOTNOTES: — A Threefold Counsel. — FOOTNOTES: — Heedfulness. — Faith, the Condition of Firmness. — Stability through Faith. — Man’s Imagined Independence of God. — Momentous Decisions. — Irreligious Piety. — Trials of the Divine Patience. — FOOTNOTES: — The Virgin’s Son. — FOOTNOTES: — Immanuel. — The Great Object of Child-Training. — FOOTNOTES: — A Sentence of Doom. — Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz. — FOOTNOTES: — The Stream Rejected for the River. — FOOTNOTES: — The Waters of Shiloah. — Threatened, but Safe. — Biblical Politicians. — FOOTNOTES: — “Hallowed be Thy Name!” — FOOTNOTES: — God Our Refuge, or Our Ruin. — FOOTNOTES: — The Stone of Stumbling. — The Duty of Teachers of Truth in Times of National Perversion. — FOOTNOTES: — Waiting on the Lord in Desertion and Gloom. — FOOTNOTES: — Penitential Waiting on God. — Necromancy. — The Law and the Testimony. — FOOTNOTES: — Unsanctified Suffering. — FOOTNOTES: — The Remedy of the World’s Misery. — FOOTNOTES: — The Joy of Harvest. — FOOTNOTES: — The Titles and Government of Christ. — The Government of Christ. — His Name . . . Wonderful. — FOOTNOTES: — Christ our Counsellor. — The Mighty God. — FOOTNOTES: — The Everlasting Father. — The Prince of Peace. — The Empire of Christ. — FOOTNOTES: — The Security for the Fulfilment of God’s Promises. — FOOTNOTES: — The Outstretched Hand of God. — FOOTNOTES: — The Duty of the Afflicted. — FOOTNOTES: — Leadership. [1] — FOOTNOTES: — Two Constant Feelings in the Mind of God. — FOOTNOTES: — Divine Anger. — FOOTNOTES: — The Destructiveness of Sin. — FOOTNOTES: — Legalised Injustice. — FOOTNOTES: — The Day of Visitation. — The Assyrian Invasion of Judah. — The Assyrian. — Man Proposes, God Disposes. — FOOTNOTES: — A Happy Conversion. — The Remnants of Society. — Isaiah’s Vision of the King and of His Kingdom. — FOOTNOTES: — The Spirit of the Lord. — The Righteous Judge. — The Universal Diffusion and Redemptive Power of the Knowledge of God. — FOOTNOTES: — The Ensign of the Nations. — The Reconciler of Men. — FOOTNOTES — A New Song for New Hearts. — Wells of Salvation. — FOOTNOTES: — The Duty of Gladness. — FOOTNOTES: — The Day of the Lord. — The Doom of the Children of Babylon. — The Love of Money. — FOOTNOTES: — Spare the Children. — Sodom and Gomorrah. — The Joy of Salvation. — The Grave and Its Mysteries. — The Contrasts of Death. — The Conqueror Conquered. — FOOTNOTES: — The Seed of Evildoers. — A Memorable Answer. — FOOTNOTES: — God’s Outcasts. — FOOTNOTES: — Fruitless Supplications. [1] — FOOTNOTES: — Diminutions and Changes of Life. — Sanctified Affliction. — FOOTNOTES: — Forgetfulness of God. — The Punishment of the Wicked. — An Altar and a Saviour for Egypt. — FOOTNOTES: — Chastisement. — The Burden of Dumah. — Night and Morning. — The Grievousness of War. — The Irresistibleness of God’s Judgments. — The Glory of the Messiah. — Glorifying God in the Fires. — The Grand Appropriation. — The Gospel Feast. — FOOTNOTES: — The Triumphs of Christ. — A Sorrowless World. — Advent Thoughts and Joys. — FOOTNOTES: — The Protecting Hand. — Days of Deliverance. — Perfect Peace. — FOOTNOTES: — The Righteousness of God and His People. — The Just Man’s Security. — The Way of God’s Judgments. — Trust and Trials. — Night Longings for God. — The Necessity and Profitableness of Chastisement. — The Use and Abuse of the Judgments of God. — FOOTNOTES: — National Peace the Gift of God. — Holiness Accomplished, Peace Ordained. — FOOTNOTES: — Man’s Holiness, God’s Workmanship. — Spiritual Usurpers Renounced. — Prayer in Trouble. — National Revival. — FOOTNOTES: — God’s Invitation to Shelter. — Chambers of Safety. — Religious Retirement. — God’s Goodness to the Church. — FOOTNOTES: — A Solemn Disclaimer. — Taking Hold of God’s Strength. — FOOTNOTES: — The Future Prosperity of Israel. — FOOTNOTES: — The Day of the East Wind. — The Afflictions of God’s People. — FOOTNOTES: — The Discipline of Sin. — The Doom of the Incorrigible. — The Gospel Trumpet. — England’s Crying Sin. — FOOTNOTES: — The Believer’s Dignity and Power. — Early Religious Training. — The Power of Littles. — The Sure Foundation. — FOOTNOTES: — Our Trust and our Test. — A Tested Saviour. — False Refuges. — The Short Bed and the Narrow Covering. — Irreligious Mockery. — The Parable of the Husbandman. — FOOTNOTES: — A Feast for Faith. — Ariel. — Dreaming. — Awakened from the Dream. — The Futility of Fighting against Mount Zion. — Lip-Service instead of Heart-Worship. — The Joy of the Meek. — Religious Joy. — The Origin and the End of Sin. — Strength in Quietness. [1] — FOOTNOTES: — Dislike to Ministerial Fidelity. — Christian Quietness. [1] — FOOTNOTES: — The Vanity of Earthly Help in Time of Trial, and the Profit of Patient Waiting. — Divine Salvation Rejected. — Waiting, Divine and Human. — FOOTNOTES: — Waiting for the Lord. — God’s Readiness to Listen to the Needy. — The Bread of Adversity. — FOOTNOTES: — The Guiding Voice. — Rivers of Waters. — FOOTNOTES: — The Earthly Song and the Heavenly Voice. — Tophet Ordained of Old. — The Only Counsellor. — FOOTNOTES: — The Spirituality of the Divine Nature. — A Call to the Revolted. — The Fiery Ordeal of the Church. — FOOTNOTES: — The Preciousness of Christ. — FOOTNOTES: — The Christian’s Refuge. — Rivers of Water in a Dry Place. — FOOTNOTES: — Comfort in Christ. — Christian Liberality. — A Call to the Careless. — FOOTNOTES: — The Essential Condition of Missionary Success. — FOOTNOTES: — The Moral Wilderness Transformed. — Peace the Work of Righteousness. — FOOTNOTES: — The Peaceful Habitation. — FOOTNOTES: — Spiritual Husbandry. — The Use of Opportunities. — Providence. — FOOTNOTES: — The Saint’s Attitude in the Time of Trouble. — The Importance of Religious Knowledge. — FOOTNOTES: — God Avenging His Own Elect. — A Blessed Life. — The Blessedness of the Servant of God. — The Prospect of the Godly. — The Beauty of Christ’s Character. — Characteristics of the Church of Christ. — FOOTNOTES: — Enriching Rivers. — FOOTNOTES: — A Controlling Fact. — The Atonement; or, Salvation Consistent with the Regal and Judicial Character of God. [1] — FOOTNOTES: — The Disabled Ship. — No Sickness There. — Recovery from Sickness. — The Controversy of Zion. — A Call to Study. — The Book that Will Endure Testing. — The Certainty of God’s Judgments. — Transformation. — FOOTNOTES: — Encouragement for the Timid. — The Healer and Joy-Giver. — The Curse Done Away. — Beautiful Visions Exchanged for Realities. — FOOTNOTES: — The Exiles’ Return. — FOOTNOTES: — The Road to the City. — The Happiness of Heaven. — The Banishment of Sorrow. — Modern Rabshakehs, and Their Attempts to Terrify God’s People into a Humble Surrender. — In Whom Art Thou Trusting? — Hezekiah’s Prudent Silence. — A Foolish King and a Wise One. — A King in Trouble. — A King’s Prayer. — A Christian Prayer. — The Christian Church a Continuation of the Jewish. — Hezekiah’s Prayer. — FOOTNOTE: — Preparation for Death. — FOOTNOTES: — Duties of the Sick and Dying. — FOOTNOTES: — Distress in Prospect of Death. — The Shortening of Human Life. — A Cry for Help. — The Suretyship of Christ. — Hezekiah’s Resolution. — The Restoration of Belief. — A Great Deliverance. — Forgiveness of Sin. — The Song of Hezekiah. — Praise for Preservation. — Hezekiah’s Strength and Weakness. — FOOTNOTES: — Home Life and Influence. — Hezekiah Tried. — Submission Under God’s Rebuke. — FOOTNOTES: — ADDITIONAL OUTLINES. — Instinct Followed—Reason Disregarded. — FOOTNOTES: — The Cessation of War. — FOOTNOTES: — God Exalted in the Great Day. — FOOTNOTES: — The Inexcusability and Hopelessness of Unbelief. — Moral Perversity. — The Service of the Seraphim. — FOOTNOTES: — The Moral History of a Rising Soul. — Sanctuary in God. — Wise Lessons from Wicked Lips. — The Diffusion of the Knowledge of God. — The Proud City Doomed. — True National Greatness. — A Momentous Inquiry. — The Blessings of the Gospel. — Peaceful Keeping. — The Song to the Vineyard. — The Storms of Life. — The Great Trumpet. — Rejecters of the Gospel Admonished. — False Refuges. — Some Aspects of Ministerial Duty. — Growing Light. — Nobility and Security. — Spreading the Letter Before the Lord.
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