Produced by Colin Bell, Julia Neufeld and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Small capital text has been replaced with all capitals. [=a] depicts a macron over "a" as in "d[=a]l" Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been preserved except in obvious cases of typographical error. All advertising has been moved to the end of the book. THE EXPOSITOR'S BIBLE EDITED BY THE REV. SIR W. ROBERTSON NICOLL, M.A., LL.D. _Editor of "The Expositor," etc._ THE BOOK OF ISAIAH BY THE REV. GEORGE ADAM SMITH, M.A. _VOLUME 1._ HODDER AND STOUGHTON LONDON. MCMX THE BOOK OF ISAIAH BY THE REV. GEORGE ADAM SMITH, M.A., D.D. _Professor of Hebrew in the Free Church College, Glasgow_ _IN TWO VOLUMES_ VOL. I.--ISAIAH I.-XXXIX. _TWENTIETH EDITION_ HODDER AND STOUGHTON LONDON. MCMX _Printed by Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ltd., London and Aylesbury._ CONTENTS. PAGE INTRODUCTION ix TABLE OF DATES xvi BOOK I. _ISAIAH'S PREFACE AND PROPHECIES TO THE DEATH OF AHAZ_, 727 B.C. CHAP. I. ISAIAH'S PREFACE--THE ARGUMENT OF THE LORD. 3 ISAIAH i. II. THE THREE JERUSALEMS 19 ISAIAH ii.-iv. 740-735 B.C. III. THE VINEYARD OF THE LORD 35 ISAIAH v.; ix. 8-x. 4. 735 B.C. IV. ISAIAH'S CALL AND CONSECRATION 57 ISAIAH vi. 740. WRITTEN 735 OR 727 B.C. (?). V. THE WORLD IN ISAIAH'S DAY AND ISRAEL'S GOD 91 WITH A MAP. VI. KING AND MESSIAH; PEOPLE AND CHURCH 103 ISAIAH vii.-ix. 1-8. 735-732 B.C. VII. THE MESSIAH 131 BOOK II. _PROPHECIES FROM THE ACCESSION OF HEZEKIAH TO THE DEATH OF SARGON_, 727-705 B.C. VIII. GOD'S COMMONPLACE 151 ISAIAH xxviii. ABOUT 725 B.C. IX. ATHEISM OF FORCE AND ATHEISM OF FEAR 168 ISAIAH x. 5-34. ABOUT 721 B.C. X. THE SPIRIT OF GOD IN MAN AND THE ANIMALS 179 ISAIAH xi.; xii. ABOUT 720 B.C. (?). XI. DRIFTING TO EGYPT, 720-705 B.C. 196 ISAIAH xx. (711 B.C.); xxi. 1-10 (710 B.C.); xxxviii.; xxxix. BOOK III. _ORATIONS ON INTRIGUES WITH EGYPT_, _AND ORACLES ON FOREIGN NATIONS_, 705-702 B.C. XII. ARIEL, ARIEL 209 ISAIAH xxix. ABOUT 703 B.C. XIII. POLITICS AND FAITH 221