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A NEW TRANSLATION;

WITH

A PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION,

AND

NOTES,

CRITICAL, PHILOLOGICAL, AND EXPLANATORY.

BY ROBERT LOWTH, D. D.

F. R. SS. LOND. and GoetT. LORD BISHOP of London.

A NEW EDITION.

VOL. II.

GLASGOW:

Printed at the University Press ;

FOR LONGMAN, HURST, & CO., LACKINGTON, HUGHES,
& CO., G. OFFOR, R. PRIESTLEY, G. & W. B. WHITTAKER,
G. COWIE, & CO., AND G. MACKIE, LONDON; AND BELL &
BRADFUTE, EDINBURGH.

1822.

101. e. 57.

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NOTES

ON

ISAIA H.

ISAIAH exercised the prophetical office during a long period of time, if he lived to the reign of Manasseh; for the lowest computation, beginning from the year in which Uzziah died, when some suppose him to have received his first appointment to that office, brings it to sixty-one years. But the tradition of the Jews, that he was put to death by Manasseh, is very uncertain; and one of their principal Rabbins (Aben Ezra, Com. in Isa. i. 1.) seems rather to think, that he died before Hezekiah; which is indeed more probable. It is however certain, that he lived at least to the fifteenth or sixteenth year of Hezekiah: this makes the least possible term of the duration of his prophetical office about forty-eight years. The time of the delivery of some of his prophecies is either expressly marked, or sufficiently clear from the history, to which they relate that of a few others may with some probability be deduced from internal marks; from expressions, descriptions, and circumstances interwoven. It may therefore be of some use in this respect, and for the better understanding of his prophecies in general, to give here a summary view of the history of his time.

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