Hebrew Prophet The Modern Pr

Author : George R. Noyes
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330376744
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book A New Translation of the Hebrew Prophets, Vol. 1 written by George R. Noyes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A New Translation of the Hebrew Prophets, Vol. 1: With an Introduction and Notes In order to understand the prophetic writings, it is of the highest importance that one enter upon the study of them with just views of the nature of the prophetic office. An incidental part of the work of the Hebrew prophet, that of predicting the future, has occupied so important a place in Christian theology, that his general office and the main business of his mission have been kept out of view. Within a few hundred years the very terms prophet and prophecy have acquired a new meaning. When Jeremy Taylor wrote his treatise called " The Liberty of Prophesying," the terra prophesying was understood in a much wider sense than it is at the present time. In his day prophets denoted public religious teachers, and by the liberty of prophesying, he understood the liberty of giving public religious instruction by speech or writing without annoyance from the civil power, or from any other source. Undoubtedly this general sense of the terms prophet and prophesying is the true one. No term by which the Hebrew prophet is denoted in the Old Testament means predicter. lie is called inspired speaker, seer, watchman, but never predicter, or foreteller of future events. His office was to proclaim the whole will of Jehovah to the Hebrew people. By public speech, by written history, and by various forms of poetic composition, lie aimed to bring the rulers and people of Israel to a right state of feeling and conduct in relation to Jehovah, their supreme national king and moral governor, and to keep them in it. In other words, his office was to make and keep the rulers and people what they ought to be in political, moral, and religious respects. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.