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Prophets and Kings
As a teil tree, and as an oak,
Whose substance is in them, when they cast
their leaves:
So the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.”
Verse 13
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This assurance of the final fulfillment of God’s purpose brought
courage to the heart of Isaiah. What though earthly powers array
themselves against Judah? What though the Lord’s messenger meet
with opposition and resistance? Isaiah had seen the King, the Lord
of hosts; he had heard the song of the seraphim, “The whole earth is
full of His glory;” he had the promise that the messages of Jehovah to
backsliding Judah would be accompanied by the convicting power of
the Holy Spirit; and the prophet was nerved for the work before him.
Verse 3
. Throughout his long and arduous mission he carried with him
the memory of this vision. For sixty years or more he stood before the
children of Judah as a prophet of hope, waxing bolder and still bolder
in his predictions of the future triumph of the church.
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