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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE BOOK OF OBADIAH. EXPOSITION. Vere. 1?16.?rart I. The Desteuction Op Edom, And The Cause Thereof. Vere. 1?9.? 1. Tlte heatlten nations are summoned to take vengeance on Edom. In spite of her impregnable position, they shall bring her low and strip her of her wealth, being aided and encouraged by her own allies. Ver. 1.?The vision of Obadiah. This is the title of the book, declaring from whom and through whom the revelation comes (Isa. i. 1). Under the word vision in prophetic language is included, not only what the seer saw, the mental picture presented to his inner senses, but also all that he is commissioned to disclose or enunciate. Thus saith the Lord God concerning Edom. The prophet declares that God speaks through him. One might have expected that the actual words of Jehovah would follow here instead of tidings heard from him. And this difficulty has led some to suppose these introductory words spurious or the insertion of a later hand, others to include them and the rest of the verse in a parenthesis, go as to begin the vision with God's words in ver. 2. But these suggestions are unnecessary. The prophet, as the mouthpiece of God, calls his own words the message of the Lord?signifies that what had been revealed to his mind he was bound to communicate to others as a direct warning from God. The Edomites were the descendants of Esau, and bound by ties of blood to the Israelites; but they had always been their most bitter enemies (Amos i. 11). They are regarded as a type of the powers of the world hostile to true religion, whose end is destruction. We have heard. We?I myself and other prophets; or the Judcoans, tlio prophet identifying himself with Ms countrymen. Septuagint, I heard; so Jer. xlix. 14; Ambio, OBADIAH. ye have heard. A rumour;...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217163903 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217163904 |
| Weight | 0.61 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.42 In |
| List Price | $46.31 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 182 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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