A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Habakkuk
Overview
Lange’s Commentary on the Holy Scriptures has served as a standard reference for more than a century. The subtitle “Critical, Doctrinal, and Homiletical” aptly describes the three-pronged approach to the biblical text. This translated version of the German text is often considered by many to be superior to the original.
Top Highlights
“The general point of view, ver. 4, from which it is plain, what he says of the Babylonians, is particularized and enlarged in ver. 5, whilst the crimes of the Babylonian are placed under the light of experience, as it is expressed in a proverb.” (Page 23)
“‘The prophecy of Habakkuk is clothed in a dramatic form, man questioning and complaining, God answering with threatening. It announces as nearest of all, the impending fearful judgment by the instrumentality of the Chaldæans on the theocracy because of its prevailing moral corruption (chap. 1.); and next to this, in a fivefold woe, the downfall of this arrogant, violent, God-forgetting, and idolatrous offender (chap. 2.); and it concludes with the answer of the believing Church to this twofold divine revelation,—that is to say, with a prophetico-lyric echo of the impressions and feelings produced in the prophet’s mind—(1) by these two divine relations when pondered in the light of the Lord’s great doings in times past [ch. 3] (2).’” (Page 3)
“Habakkuk has a right name for his office. For Habakkuk means an embracer, or one who takes another in his arms and presses him to his heart. This he does in his prophecy: he embraces his people and takes them in his arms, i. e., he comforts them and holds them up, as one embraces a weeping child or person, to quiet him with the assurance, that, if God will, he will be better.” (Page 8)
“Finally the words, ‘in your days,’ if spoken in the time of Josiah, would be in direct contradiction to the prophecy of the prophetess Huldah (2 Kings 22:18 ff.), according to which the calamity was not to fall upon Judah in the lifetime of Josiah. Nothing remains, therefore, but to place this prophecy in the reign of Jehoiakim (610–599). So De Wette, Ewald, Umbreit, Hitzig, Bäumlein, Bleck.” (Page 5)
- Title: A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Habakkuk
- Authors: Johann Peter Lange, Philip Schaff, Paul Kleinert, Charles Elliott
- Series: Lange’s Commentary
- Publisher: Faithlife
- Print Publication Date: 2008
- Logos Release Date: 2008
- Era: era:modern
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible. O.T. Habakkuk › Commentaries
- Resource ID: LLS:LANGE35HAB
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-05T17:03:23Z