The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Books of the Bible, Volume 15 (of 32) The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, Volume I

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES.

• Technical note: This book makes heavy use of small caps formatting.You may need to experiment with fonts and browsers until you see the words“small caps” formatted in small caps.
• This is a commentary on the first 39 chapters of the Biblical book of Isaiah. It waswritten to help ministers with their sermon preparation. Many of the thoughts presented arecondensed from published sermons. The book is a collection of man’s opinions on theinspired Word of God. The Transcriber does not necessarily agree with every opinion expressed.Among the disagreements are suggestions that the Church replaces Israel, or is “the true Israel,”or that human effort has any effect on God’s pacing of future events.Some of the opinions expressed are unapologetically anti-Roman Catholic or culturally insensitive. The book is a productof its time and place (late nineteenth century greater London). The U.S. conflict between North andSouth is still within memory and neither the great European wars to come, nor England’s lossof her colonial possessions in India and Africa, nor the establishment of the State of Israel is even foreshadowed.
• The page numbers in the first part of the book (“front-matter”) andthe last part of the book (“back-matter”) were modified from unadornedArabic numbers to make them unique. In this e-book, front-matter pages are identifiedby lower-cased Roman numbers and back-matter pages include the letter “A”(for “Appendix”) and either an “L” or an “R” toidentify the left or right column. The Appendix presents two translations of thewhole book of Isaiah and two additional translations of the fifty-second and fifth-thirdchapters.
• In the original, the outlines are generally in order by scripture reference and information in thepage headers helps one find an outline related to any desired passage. Due to the lengthof the e-book, and the supplemental outlines added toward the end, the Transcriberhas inserted a listing of outlines in sequential order by scripture reference afterthe Index of Subjects, Index of Authors, and table of Times, Seasons, and Occasions, and prior to the Introduction.
• The footnotes in the text are identified by sequential lower-case Greek letters: α, β, etc.The Transcriber has changed them to superscript bracketed numbers to comply with current use. In the mainportion of the book, the “footnotes” were set in smaller type at the end of the respective outlines.In the Appendix, footnotes were set at the bottom of each page. The text and each footnote are hyperlinked both directions.
• Certain long outlines (The Virgin’s Son, The Burden of Dumah)and the Appendix were set almost entirely in footnote type to save page count.
• The detailed list of Transcriber’s changes is at the foot of the document. Link to detailed changes.