of all flesh; is there anything

ve I heard this; that power bel

eat power; his understanding

he knoweth what is in the darkness, and th

s works from the beginning

en; he beholdeth all the so

with thy mouth, and teach thee

ar ye indeed, but understand not; and see

ok known as the Prophecies of Isaiah. They assume that all the foremost scholars of the world, and the faith of God's people, have been misled. Our critical advisers profess to have d

e of composition from the thirty-ni

n the first thirty-nine chapters. Hence, it is assumed tha

the book, as the restorer of Jerusalem. Hence, our critics conclude that this part of the book must h

it more accurate and interesting as a literary work. The professor already quoted, a fair representative of the critical school, in his recent lectures, referred to on a preceding page, distinguished the authors of the book as "Isaiah and the Great Unk

s by his Apostle Peter "that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation"; that is, of the prophet's own disclosure. "For prophecy came not of old time by the will of man; but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Spirit." (2 Peter i. 20, 21.) It is, therefore, bold assumption to affirm that God c

owers of the author. A historical statement, a commonplace theme, can be dealt with in a commonplace style, while new and uplifting truth awakens new powers in the writer. Milton's Paradise Lost was entirely different from his ordinary prose composition. Dr

m the prophet when the Holy Spirit opened to his enraptured mind the theme of redempti

glorious purposes. To deny this fact is to deny all prophecy. If God can not foretell future events and the instruments for their accomplishment, there can be no prophecy, and God's omniscience is impeached. Isaiah prophesied in the seventh chapter and fourteenth verse: "Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel." Matthew affirms that this proph

el) shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee." More than three hundred years after this prophecy was given, according to Usher's Chronology, Josiah was born and

nly where he is. But who is to decide how many and what allusions he must make to cu

t, will shortly be wanting customers. The critic who has decided how many and what kind of synchronous events must be

ory or prophecy in the Bible, is contrary to all the treatme

prophet. He speaks of God as "The Holy One of Israel." This title, as applied to God, is used only seven times in the entire Old Testament; once in 2 Kings, three times in the Psalms, twice in the prophec

attests the unity of the authorship of the entire book. Hence the passages ("line upon line, line

n the Lord, they have provoked t

nity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: that say ... let the couns

ay the law of the Lord of hosts, and desp

u inhabitant of Zion; for great is the

n look to his Maker, and his eyes shall

r among man shall rejoice

of Israel to cease from before us." (

f Israel, because ye despise this word ... therefore t

d God, the Holy One of Israel; In re

not unto the Holy One of Is

men of Israel; I will help thee, I will help thee sai

ejoice in the Lord, and shalt g

der, and understand together, that the hand of the Lord h

the Lord thy God, the Holy

rael, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come, concerning

edeemer, the Lord of hosts is hi

ly One of Israel, I am the Lord thy God, which teacheth thee to

arise, princes also shall worship, because of the Lord that is

d of hosts is his name, and thy Redeemer is the Holy One

e, shall run unto thee because of the Lord

bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of

call thee the city of the Lord, t

eth chapter. He uses it ten times before reaching the fortieth chapter, and twelve times in the chapters following, which the critics have assigned to some unknown author or authors. Shall we be asked to conclude that the unknown authors adopted Isaiah's style, his phraseology, from t