Category: Religion/Spirituality
Translator's Preface, 7 Author's Preface, 9 The Messianic Prophecies in the Pentateuch, 11 The Protevangelium, 14 The Blessing of Noah upon Shem and Japheth, Gen. ix. 18-27, 30 The Promise to the Patriarchs, Gen. xii. 1-3, 46 The Blessing of Jacob upon Judah, Gen. xlix. 8-10,...
of heaven." In these words of the Psalm there is a reference to Deut. xi. 21, where the _people_ of the Lord are promised a duration "as the days of heaven and of earth." An abs...
21. i. 7, by showing that the mercy there promised to the inhabitants ofJudah is to be understood relatively only. Such suppositions, indeed, show very plainly how distinctly the future lay before the eyes of the prophet.[5]--With regard, now, to th...
2. ix. 8, and several allusions occurring in the Prophecies of Isaiah(_e.g._, chap. xl. 2 and lxi. 7, which refer to the issue of Job's history, which is here viewed as a prophecy of the future fate of the Church; the peculiar use of צבא in xl. 2...
36. xiv. 9: "And Thou, O Lord, art in the midst of us, and Thy name iscalled upon us." Is. lxiii. 19: "We are those over whom Thou hast not reigned from eternity, and upon whom Thy name has not been called." As regards the use of these words in re...
30. lxxxiv. 7, where the right translation is: "With blessing also theteacher covereth himself"), and never with that of "rain," or "early rain." This is rather the meaning of יורה; and the verb also never occurs in _Hiphil_, as it does in _Kal_,...
23. xvii. 5, we need only to consider these words: "And the man Micah hadan house of God, and made an Ephod and Teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, and he became a priest to him." Afterwards, Micah took a _Levite_ for a priest. But for what re...
44. cii. 28, "Thy years have no end;" and the New Testament frequentlyspeaks in the same way of eternal times. We are, in our thoughts, generally so much bound to time, that we can conceive of eternity only as "time without time." It cannot by any...
10. xlviii. 45, indicates that by the sons of the tumult we are tounderstand not only the Moabites, but the whole _species_ to which they belonged, the whole heathen world, whose nature is restlessness, desire for strife, and the spirit of con...
4. ix. 5, and, viewed in its character of a proper name, is like theTo Shiloh the nations shall adhere. The word יקהה is commonly understood as meaning "obedience."[9] But it does not [Pg 70] denote every kind of obedience, but only that which i...
12. xxviii. 13, Jehovah is contrasted with the angels ascending andIn Gen. xlviii. 15, 16, we read of Jacob: "_And he blessed Joseph, and said, The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, and the God which fed me all my life long...
41. iii. 12, according to which, Zion, the seat of the Davidic dominion, isto be ploughed as a field. This announcement, with the express mention of the king, returns in ver. 9, and, contrasted with It, the announcement of the restoration of the Davidi...
40. iv. 1-7, he describes how Zion is glorified by what the Lord does fromthence; in ver. 8, by the restoration of the dominion of the Davidic race; and in v. 1 ff., by the appearance of the Messiah. It is especially from v. 3 (4), according to which...
1. VOLUME I.Translator's Preface, 7 Author's Preface, 9 The Messianic Prophecies in the Pentateuch, 11 The Protevangelium, 14 The Blessing of Noah upon Shem and Japheth, Gen. ix. 18-27, 30...
45. xxx. 9: בשובכם על יהוה "when ye return to the Lord," properly, "uponthe Lord;" and Mal. iii. 24 (iv. 6): "And he makes return the hearts of the fathers to the sons, על בנים,"--which latter passage has a striking resemblance to the one under revi...
29. iv. 28 may be compared, where, in the view of threatening hostileIn ii. 17, "Give not Thine heritage to reproach, _that the heathen should rule over them_" (למשל־בם גוים), the prophet drops the figure altogether, and allows the reality--the d...
35. viii. 8 is a parallel passage, in which, after the description of theprevailing sin, it is said: "Shall not the earth tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? And it riseth up wholly like the Nile, and is agitated, and sinketh...
42. v. 1 (2), which, again, refers to the sufferings described in the versebefore us. This argument, however, is set aside by the following considerations. 1. The prophet, indeed, designates the misery which was inflicted by those enemies upon the Cove...
22. CHAPTER III."The significant couple returns for a new reference" (_Rückert_). First, in vers. 1-3, the symbolical action is reported. At the command of the Lord, the prophet takes a wife, w...
39. iv. 21, according to which Edom dwells in the land of Uz, which can besought for only in _Arabia Deserta_. We need to think only of that branch of the Midianites who had gone over to _Arabia Deserta_, whilst their chief settlement continued in _Ar...
20. xliv. 5: "One shall say, I am Jehovah's, and another shall call thename of Jacob, and another shall write with his hand. Unto the Lord! and boast of the name of Israel." Such an eager desire of the Gentiles towards the kingdom of God regularly...
31. CHAPTER IX.The chapter opens with a vision. The temple, shaken by the Angel of the Lord in its very foundations, falls down, and buries Judah and Israel under its ruins. Without a figure,-...
9. xxxiii. 22 must, therefore, not be translated, "Dan is a lion's whelpleaping from Bashan"--as if the גור אריה were already active--but thus, "Dan is a lion's whelp; he shall leap (_i.e._, after he shall have grown up) from Bashan." Dan is in that...
13. i. 5 points: Τίνι γὰρ εἶπέ ποτε τῶν ἀγγέλων, Υἱός μου εἶ σὺ, ἐγὼσήμερον γεγέννηκά σε; Καὶ πάλιν· Ἐγὼ ἔσομαι αὐτῷ εἰς πατέρα, καὶ αὐτὸς ἔσται μοι εἰς υἱόν; The depth of meaning which is contained in these words appears plainly from their expa...
43. xix. 7, it is said of the sun: מקצה השמים מוצאו, "from the end of theheaven is his going forth," which is tantamount to--The end of the heaven is the place from which he goes forth. 5. 1 Kings x. 28: ומוצא הסוסים אשר לשלמה ממצרים, which _De Wette...
24. xxviii. 38, used of the devouring of the locusts, and חסיל never occursThe following also may be considered. The description of the ravages of the second brood is, according to _Credner_, to begin in chap. ii. 4. But the suffix in ver. 4 refers dir...
33. iii. 12, the preservation of a small remnant amidst the generaldestruction had been promised. The greater number of interpreters, in order to reconcile this apparent contradiction, assume an hyperbole in vers. 1-4. But this assumption is ce...
6. xxii. 4, where it is remarked that at that time "the Lord gave themrest round about." (See _Bachiene_, _Palestina_ ii. 3, S. 409 ff.) In the subjection of the country,--in the rest which the Lord had given them from all round about, they saw an...
11. xix. 1, on the contrary, we are at once told: "And there came the twoangels." (Compare ver. 15.) The reason why in chap. xviii. the use of the name _angels_ is avoided can only be, because it might easily have led to a misunderstanding, if the An...
8. lxxii. 1-5, where judgment and righteousness appear as the basis of thepeace which the Anointed One shall bring. And _peace_ occupies the background in Ezekiel also. The advent of Him to whom is the judgment, in contrast with the injustice and wick...
34. viii. 17, where he says; "For behold I send against you serpents,basilisks, against which there is no charm, and they bite you, saith the Lord." It is very probable that to this the prophet also alludes in the passage before us.
15. xv. 9: "And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord, as hisfathers had done, and departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who had made Israel to sin." According to the context, we must, in the first place, think of the _...
32. ix. 1 also, the angels stand at the side of the brazen altar, נצב can,of course, never signify "_to be suspended_."--הכפתור is a species of ornament at the top of the pillars; and הספים, "the thresholds," are contrasted with each other, in order t...
16. ii. 10 (οὐκ ἠλεημένη), render the word more accurately than Paul, inRom. ix. 25 (οὐκ ἠγαπημένη). Hence it is never used of man's love to God, but only of the love of God to man,--of His mercy. The only passage which seems to contradict this, Ps....
27. xxiv. 6: "Therefore curse devoureth the land, and they that dwell in itbecome guilty;" and [Pg 314] Hos. xiv. 1.) The word נאנחה, which is never used of beasts, likewise leads us to think of men. "How do the beasts groan," is explained by "All the...
18. x. 13: "Thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mightymen;" Ps. xx. 8; Mic. v. 9 seqq.; and Deut. xxxiii. 29, where the Lord is spoken of as the only true bulwark and armour: "Happy art thou, Israel: who is like unto thee? a people...
19. xxxiii. 22: "As the host of heaven is not numbered, neither the sand ofthe sea measured; so will I multiply the seed of David My servant." Now, the reference here cannot be accidental. It supposes that these promises were at that time generally kno...
25. ii. 5: "And I send fire upon Judah, and it devours the palaces ofThe words in ver. 15--"Woe, for the day, for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as destruction from the Almighty does it come,"--point to something infinitely higher than a mer...
17. xiv. 13), under the latter of whom, the splendour and glory of Israelhad been so greatly increased. But that which prevented this probability from becoming a reality lay altogether beyond the sphere of human calculation, as Hosea himself here so...
38. vi. 1, the mountains also, are called upon only in order to make theFootnote 2: Ver. 6 must be translated thus: _Not shall ye drop_ (prophesy),--_they_ (the false prophets) _drop; if they_ (the individuals addressed, the true prophets) _do not d...
3. xii. 15), lead us from the supposed form to the substantive termination־וֹן which a _liquida_ may drop, and express the remaining vowel ו by ה." (Compare _Ewald_, § 163.) Now that _Shiloh_ is an abbreviation of _Shilon_ is proved, not only by the _...
5. xlix. It is for his people that Judah engages in foreign wars, and theThere can be no doubt that in Shiloh, as the name of a place, there is a reference to Gen. xlix. 10. They who rightly denied that Shiloh could, in that passage, be understood as...
7. xix. 2: "Thy mother was a lioness, who lay down among lionesses, andbrought up her whelps among young lions." The mother is the congregation of Judah. The image of the lion points to the blessing of Jacob, and its fulfilment in history. "Judah o...
26. lvi. 9, the beasts of the field likewise occur as a figurativedesignation of the heathen. In Jer. xiv.--a prophecy which has been distorted by expositors through a too literal interpretation--the image is, in vers. 5, 6, individualized by...
28. xiii. 2-5, where the Lord marches at the head of a great army todestroy the whole earth, may here be compared; and on Joel ii. 10, "Before him the earth quaketh, the heavens tremble, the sun and the moon mourn, and the stars withdraw their s...
37. xxii. 28, the people alone are called upon as witnesses, and that in