Proverbs-Isaiah by Tremper Longman Iii & David E. Garland & Allen P. Ross & Jerry E. Shepherd & George Schwab & Rev. Geoffrey W. Grogan

Author:Tremper Longman Iii & David E. Garland & Allen P. Ross & Jerry E. Shepherd & George Schwab & Rev. Geoffrey W. Grogan [Longman, Tremper Iii & Garland, David E. & Ross, Allen P. & Shepherd, Jerry E. & Schwab, George & Grogan, Rev. Geoffrey W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christian Books & Bibles, Bible Study & Reference, Commentaries, Old Testament, Reference, Religion & Spirituality, book, ebook
ISBN: 0310234980
Amazon: B0015DPXA8
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2009-10-05T16:00:00+00:00

Approaches to Interpretation

The book of Isaiah, like other OT prophetic Scriptures, has been understood in more than one way as far as its eschatology is concerned. Clearly, a high doctrine of Scripture requires us to take the teaching of its every part with great seriousness, and it also requires that we consider the way the NT writers understood it.

Some writers hold to the principle that every prophecy that can be taken literally should be so taken. This does not mean that there is no recognition of figurative language or the wide range of physical analogies used by the writers. It does mean, however, that Jerusalem is taken to be a geographical location, not a symbol for the church, that the wolf and the lamb lie down together in the Messiah’s kingdom as literal animals, and so on.