Excerpt from The Book of Prophet Isaiah God1 - topics which are just touched on in xl. - xlviii. (x1. 9, xli. Xliv. 26 ff., xlv. But are here the central and all-absorbing interest. We observe further that the appeal is now addressed to individual Israelites rather than to the nation as a whole, as if the great hindrance to the emancipation of Israel was no longer political, but lay in the selfishness and timidity of the mass of the people (1: Only a few writers2 have thought that these differences amount to a proof of dual authorship. How far they are to be explained by a change of situation is a question which must be deferred till we have examined the possibilities that lie in the historical background of the prophecies (p. Xxxix f The discourses of which this section is composed are even less closely articulated than those of xl. - xlviii. They are mostly Of three kinds, which alternate with each other, without any discoverable principle of arrangement. 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.