Excerpt from The Book of Isaiah Chronologically Arranged: An Amended Version With Historical and Critical Introductions and Explanatory Notes The present work is a fragment of a much larger one planned by the editor several years ago. He was induced to abridge his scheme by the urgent necessity which appeared to exist for works of moderate size and accurate information on the most important books of the Old Testament. He trusts, therefore, that teachers of theology may find this attempt a convenient substratum for their own more extended instruction, and at the same time ventures to hope that the independent researches, which have accompanied the writing of every part of it, will recommend it to the attention of professional scholars. The object of this edition is not in the least connected with the recent movement for a revision of the Authorized Version: - it is simply to restore the probable meaning of Isaiah, so far as this can be expressed in appropriate English. The basis of the version is naturally the revised translation of 1611, but no scruple has been felt in introducing alterations, wherever the true sense of the prophecies appeared to require it. These might indeed have been largely increased, but the affectionate reverence with which the Authorized Version is so justly regarded, appeared to demand that changes should not be made for any but comparatively grave reasons. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.