A New Translation of Isaiah; With Notes by a Layman. Published by the Society for Promoting the Knowlege [Sic] of the Scriptures

by Michael Dodson

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1790 ... manner, as then taking place, it is, as IV r. Jackson well observes, no objection to this interpretation, that the Lxx have translated in the suture tense tne verbs, which in the Hebrew are in the present. It is sarther to be observed, that although it pleased God to give these N savourable favourable assurances to the house of David and the kingdom of Judah, yet he immediately adds, that in no long time they would again be greatly distressed, and that a great part of their distresses would proceed from the Afiyrians, to whom they had had recourse for assistance. See verses i7--25. viii. 8 &c. and i Jackson 309, &c. Ibid.---is with child The word mn is a participle of the present tense, and signifies is with child, and not barely is conceiving; and it is so understood by the Lxx here and in Gen. xxxviii. 24. 6ee Jackson's note above cited. The meaning of the prophet is; "The young woman is with child, and is even no N bringing forth a son." Ibid. And ye shall call Eusebius in his Commentary insists on it strongly, that x-Xumf is the true reading not only of the Lxx and the three other Greek translators, and of the Hebrew, but also of St. Matthew. See Jackson's note above cited, and his note (3) in p. 86. But as die address is to the house of David, the plural is more proper than the singular, and the present word becomes singular by adding to it the letter ca, which hath been often omitted at the end of words. See Diss. Gen. Sect. 26. and bishop Lowth on v. i. and li. 4. and my note on viii. 23. Justin in p. 223, hath x-Afrit--, which should be xirnt, and the Old Latin hath vocabitis, as we learn from Tertullian, p. i9i. D. Novatian, p. 86. and Lactantius, iv. i2. 4. and Epist. p. ii8. Ibid. his name Immanuel. "Go...

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Published January 1, 2012