The Book of Isaiah: Volume 3, Chapters 40-66 (New International Commentary | NIC)
Overview
Edward J. Young’s classic 3-volume commentary engages in a line-by-line exegesis of the Book of Isaiah, setting interpretation firmly in the context of Isaiah’s archaeological, cultural, and intellectual background. Young allows the prophet to speak for himself and to expound his message for the present age. Written primarily for the minister, Sunday school teacher and general layperson, the theologically conservative commentary provides very few Hebrew words in the main body of the text. However, in order to serve those pastors, teachers and students who do know the Hebrew language, Young has provided technical material in the footnotes or in special notes.
Volume 3 surveys chapters 40-66.
The Book of Isaiah: vol. 3, Chapters 40-66 was an inauguratory volume of the New International Commentary Series on the Old Testament!
Top Highlights
“The people belong to God, for He has chosen them. Hence, even though they may forsake Him, He will not abandon them. It was necessary that He punish them through the judgment of the exile, for Israel must learn humility. At the same time God does not forsake His own.” (Page 19)
“The unbelief that Isaiah here depicts is the same unbelief found all about us today. Men say pleasant and complimentary things about the Lord of Glory. They will praise His ethics, His teaching, declare that He was a good man and a great prophet, the only one who has answers to the social problems that today confront the world. They will not, however, acknowledge that they are sinners, deserving of everlasting punishment, and that the death of Christ was a vicarious sacrifice, designed to satisfy the justice of God and to reconcile an offended God to the sinner. Men will not receive what God says concerning His Son. Today also, the Servant is despised and rejected of men, and men do not esteem Him.” (Page 344)
“The language is evidently designed to point out that the water, wine, and milk are obtained not by human purchase but by divine grace, the free gifts of God.” (Page 375)
“Indeed, there was a price paid that man might have water, wine, and milk; and that price consisted in the fact that the chastisement of our peace was upon the Servant of the Lord. As a result of that transaction one may eat and his soul will be filled.” (Page 375)
“As his exaltation and glorification were of the highest, so his degradation will be of the deepest.” (Page 337)
The first really significant example of a thoroughly scholarly conservative commentary since Keil and Delitzsch
—Moody Monthly
The special value of this book lies in the fullness and depth of the exposition and the erudition of the footnotes…These alone justify its purchase by the layman, the minister, and the student.
—The Evangelical Quarterly
- Title: The Book of Isaiah: vol. 3, Chapters 40-66
- Author: Edward J. Young
- Publisher: Eerdmans
- Publication Date: 1972
- Pages: 578