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File Name: Alexander, Joseph A. - The Prophecies of Isaiah

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File Submitted: 02 Feb 2016

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Author: Dr. Joseph Addison Alexander
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HD (iPad) / LT (iPhone) version of the Commentary Titled "The Prophecies of Isaiah", an exhaustive and comprehensive verse-by-verse commentary on the entire Book of Isaiah, authored by Dr. Joseph Addison Alexander (1809 - 1860).
He is also the author of an excellent commentary on Psalms; and the following poem:

“There is a Line”

There is a time, I know not when -

A place, I know not where,

Which marks the destiny of men -

To heaven or despair.

There is a line, by us not seen -

Which crosses every path;

The hidden boundary between –

God's patience and God's wrath.

To cross that limit is to die -

To die as if by stealth.

It may not pale the beaming eye,

Nor quench the glowing health.

The conscience may be still at ease;

The spirit light and gay.

That which is pleasing still may please,

And care be thrust away.

But on that forehead God hath set -

Indelibly a mark,

By man unseen, for man as yet,

Is blind and in the dark.

And still the doomed man's path below -

May bloom as Eden bloomed.

He did not, does not, will not know,

Nor feel, that he is doomed.

He feels, he says, that all is well;

His every fear is calmed.

He lives; he dies; he wakes in hell -

Not only doomed, but damned.

Oh, where is that mysterious bourne

By which each path is crossed?

Beyond which God, Himself, hath sworn -

That he who goes is lost?

How long may man go on in sin;

How long will God forbear?

Where does hope end, and where begin -

The confines of despair?

One answer from the skies is sent:

Ye who from God depart -

While it is yet today, repent;

And harden not your heart.

This poem is also titled “The Hidden Line” and “The Doomed Man”. The first line of the last verse is sometimes given as: “An answer from the skies repeats”, which neither improves nor rhymes. That is the only line that perhaps merits change. Perhaps a better rendering would be: “One answer from God’s word is lent:”.

Following an extensive introduction to the book of Isaiah, Joseph Addison Alexander offers critical commentary on the original text. Offering both synoptic annotation and semantic inquiry into the text, Alexander elucidates of the literal and figurative prose. Volume 2 covers chapters 32 through 66.

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