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The Expositor's Bible, The Book of Isaiah, Volume 2 (of 2)

Book 4 — INDEX OF SUBJECTS

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(The Arabic numerals refer to pages, the Roman to chapters.)

Anshan or Anzan, 112 f.

Babylon, 55 ff.;

capture of, 146 f., xii.;

compared with Rome,189, 199 f.;

meaning of its name, 191;

its pride, 191;

early history, 192 n.;

cruelty, 201;

yielding to Cyrus, 193;

religion, 193;

in the modern world, 200 ff.;

ruin, 199, 204;

call to leave, 211, 396.

Babylonia, described, 53;

history of, 107 ff., 146 f.

Baudissin, 463.

Belshazzar, 113.

Bredenkamp argues for "Isaianic" elements in Isa. xl.-lxvi., 24, 205, 211.

Briggs, Prof., theory of two different writings in Isa. xl.-lxvi., 18, 315, 336, cf. 234.

Calvin, testimony to exilic authorship of Isa. xl.-lxvi., 14 f.;

fair exegesis, 215;

Commentary, Introduction.

Captivity. See Exile.

Chaldea. See Babylon.

Astrology, 193, 198.

Cheyne, Prof., 19, 121, 211, 435.

Crœsus, 113;

and the oracles, 114;

defeated by Cyrus, 144 f.

Cyropædia, 164, 170.

Cyrus, alleged mention of his name by Isaiah, 7;

not monotheist, 40, 165, 179;

not a prediction but a fulfilment, 9, 11, 66, 111 ff.;

Jehovah's claim on, 130, 166, 144, 162 ff.;

capture of Babylon, 146, 178;

Greek presentation of, compared with Hebrew, 164 f., 169 ff.;

As Messiah: Hebrew objection to, 167 f., 175;

a fulfilment of prediction, 207 f.;

an elect instrument, not the Servant, 253.

Davidson, Prof. A. B., quoted, 15, 17, 306, 317.

See also Introduction, 121.

Delitzsch, 121, 211, etc.

Dillmann, 435, etc.

Driver, Prof., Isaiah: His Life and Times, 14, 18, 121, 435, etc.

Ewald, 121, 269, 336, etc.

Exile, the Babylonian, reason of, 28 ff.;

What Israel took into Exile, iii.;

Israel in Exile, iv.;

the first deportation, number, and quality of exiles, 32 ff.;

second deportation, 35;

march to Babylon, 48 f.;

condition of the exiles, 55 ff.;

social condition of exiles, 57 ff.;

literary efforts, 59 f.;

religious life, 61;

commerce, 62;

spiritual experience, 63;

traces of exile in Jewish literature, 63;

condition of Israel at end of exile, 66.

Ezekiel, compared with Jeremiah, 34, 46;

picture of captivity, 59;

sin-bearer, 352;

and the Messiah, 404.

Face of God, 450 n.

Fasts in the exile, 61, 415.

Fatherhood of God, 453 ff.

Giesebrecht, 210.

God and history, 87 f., 100, 106 ff., 157 ff.

God and the idols, vi., ix. (especially 153).

God, His Omnipotence and Faithfulness, 121 ff., 390.

God the Saviour, 136;

Personality of, 148 f.;

Passion of God, viii.;

spirituality of Jewish conception, 137.

Gospel, or Good News. Meaning in the Exile, 437 f.;

development from then, 439 f.

Grace, proclamation of, characteristic of "Second Isaiah," 78 f.;

to fulfil service, 290.

Herodotus, quotation from, 114 f.

Hahn, 121.

Idolatry, 91, 94 ff., 116, 152 ff., 177 ff.

Incarnation, true O. T. prophecies of, 135 ff., 141.

Individualism, 41 ff.

Isaiah, the Prophet: his prophecies of exile, 23, 29 f.;

his connection with chs. xl.-lxvi., 23, 24;

are there fragments by him in ch. xl.-lxvi.? 24;

his use of the word Righteousness, 216, 218.

Isaiah, Book of: plurality of authors in, 4;

on its own testimony composite book, 4 f.

Isaiah xl.-lxvi.: their date, i.;

do not claim to be by Isaiah, 5;

New Testament quotations from, 6;

speak of exile and Cyrus as actual facts, 8, 9;

use Cyrus as a fulfilment of previous prophecies, 11, 12;

local colour, 13;

language and style, 15;

characteristic doctrine, 16;

unity, 18 f., 21,212, 222, 234, 314 f., 336 ff., 409, 441, 446;

Palestinian and pre-exilic elements, 18-20, 409 ff.;

post-exilic elements, 18, 414, 458, 465.

Isaiah xl.-lxvi.: the double problem of the prophecy, Introduction, 377, 378.

"Isles," or coast-lands, 109 ff.

Israel: sketch of history from Isaiah to exile, ii., iii., iv.;

uniqueness; reason of election by God, xv.;

missionary career, 44 f.;

prominence given to, 236;

elected for service, 237;

qualities of nation, 240 ff.;

Jesus a Jew, 249 f.

Jeremiah, his prediction of exile, 8, 27, 66, 79;

teaching on this contrasted with Isaiah's, 27;

Jeremiah's significance for "Second Isaiah," and foreshadowing of the Servant of the Lord, as suffering for the people, 42, 275, 277;

and for God's Word, 330;

and as sin-bearer, 352, 358;

cf. also 326, 435 n.

Jerusalem or Zion, fall of, 30 ff.;

religious significance of its destruction, 43 ff.;

the exiles take the city's name to themselves, 47, 72;

personification of Israel under name of Zion, 382 ff.;

her restoration, 395, xxiv.;

the Bride of God, 397 ff.;

City of Judgement, 466.

Jesus Christ, and the Passion of God, viii.;

a Jew, 249;

His testimony as to His uniqueness, 283, 369 f.;

His example of service, 284, 285, 305 ff.;

called the Servant of the Lord in the Acts, 286;

so recognised by Peter and Paul, 287;

God's will first with Him, 298;

martyrs for the Word of God, 285, 331;

and the Fifty-third of Isaiah, 366 ff.;

as bringer of good news, 439.

John the Baptist and the Book of Isaiah, 282 f.

Josiah, King, 30.

Krüger, 435, 442.

Love of God, 76 f., viii., 399 f., 451 f.;

sin against it, 467.

Marriage, figure of religious marriage use among the Semites, 398 ff.;

purified and exalted in the Old Testament, 400;

a test of the uniqueness of Hebrew prophecy, 398 f., cf. 76 f.

Media, 107.

Mesopotamia, 51 ff.

Monotheism, 88;

and the imagination, 95 ff.;

of Israel defined, 36 ff., 129, 149 ff.

Nabunahid or Nabonidos, King of Babylon, 65, 113, 193.

Nebuchadrezzar, 32, 34, 54, 107.

New Testament quotations from Isaiah xl.-lxvi., p. 6 and references, 282, 284 f., xvii.

Persia, 111.

Pfleiderer, quoted, 127.

Positivism and the service of man, 294.

Prediction, Jehovah's claim to, 120 ff., 208;

the ri'shonoth, 206;

new things, 206.

Prophecy, in the Exile, its anonymousness, 61;

and appeal to former scriptures, 62;

precedes history as well as interprets it, 100;

uniqueness of Hebrew prophecy, 248, ff., xix., 321 ff.;

and martyrdom, 328.

Redemption of Israel. Political, fulfilled by Cyrus, 271;

spiritual, fulfilled by Servant, 271, 273.

Renan, "Natural Monotheism of the Semites," 149.

Return from exile, promise of, 46;

facts of, 57;

call to 211 ff., 396, 405, etc.

Revelation, conditions of, 73;

method of, 100 f., 148 f.

See Prophecy.

Righteousness, 127 f., xiv.;

root and growth of word, 215 f.;

of Israel, 217;

of Jehovah, 224, cf. 365, 392, 410, 436 f.

Sabbath, 61, 422.

Sacramental character of prophecy, 89 f.

Sayce, 163, 165, 179, 457.

Sin, its effects, 387;

its punishment, 29, 465 ff.;

grounds of forgiveness, 79;

borne by God, viii., 183;

by Jeremiah and Ezekiel, 352;

by the Servant, xx.

Sinim, land of, 383.

Socialism and the service of man, xviii.

Suffering, vicarious, Jeremiah 422, 64;

of the Servant, 272 f., 331.

The Servant of Jehovah, God's commission of, 132 f.;

Christ's relation to, 142;

possibly speaker summing moral meaning of Exile, 210;

passages on, 233;

his character, 254;

as a nation, 236 ff., 256 f.;

as part of a nation, 257 ff.;

as realised by one man—prophet and martyr, 276;

a person, 276, etc.;

a personification, 266;

fulfilled by Christ, 267, 281 ff., 367;

an individual, objections answered to recognising this—

1st, 270,

2nd, 272,

3rd, 274;

cf. xx., 405.

The Servant's office, extended by Paul, 287 f.;

by Peter, 286 f.

The Servant's chief end, 317;

as prophet and martyr, 313 ff.;

as sin-bearer, xx.

Voice, the human, in Isaiah xl.-lxvi., 302, 416.

Wellhausen, 238, 269, 457 n.

Xenophanes, the Eleatic, contemporary of "Second Isaiah," 125.

Xenophon, portrait of Cyrus, 163 f.

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