The grammar of prophecy; a systematic guide to Biblical prophecy
by Robert Baker Girdlestone
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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: Judah's sin, the prophet says, Zion shall be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the House as the high places of the forest. Did this definite threat produce any effect on the people ? We know that it did. A century later we find the matter referred to ly the elders of the show more land, who say that the effect was that Hezekiah feared the Lord and besought the Lord, and the Lord repented Him of the evil which He had pronounced against them. See Jer. 26. 17-19. 7. Another remarkable feature of prophetic diction is that Hyperbole r r of fru its language at first sight looks extremely exaggerated. It is in truth thoroughly oriental, and if the Bible had been originally written in English and by Englishmen, it would doubtless have been worded very differently. Even in such a sober book as the Epistle to the Colossians (1. 23), we are told that the Gospel had been preached to every creature under heaven, as if the injunction of Mark 16. 15 had already been earned out. A hundred times destruction is threatened in the most terrible forms against Israel and against other nations, and yet it arrives in a very reduced form. It is evident that neither desolation nor destruction were final or complete. Look, for example, at Isai. 24. 18-20: - He who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; And he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken n the snare; For the windows from on high are open, And the foundations of the earth do shake. The earth is utterly broken down; The earth is clean dissolved. The earth is moved exceedingly; The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, And shall be removed like a cottage; And the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; And it shall fall and not rise ag... show lessTags
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R. B. Girdlestone (b.1836) was head of the translation department of the British and Foreign Bible Society, principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, and minister of St. John's Downshire Hall, Hampstead.
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