The International critical commentary on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments Volume 24 - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...enemies is not weighty in view of Jb. 9" and the bitterness and wrath that Job attributes to his 'opponent' who is none less than ' himself, the source of all Job's sufferings.--njo $ X«Xi)rptiTo( rc; hence Schw. p To. Schw. objects to A on the ground that in its seven other occurrences njo always means 'make clear,' 'prepare,' a meaning not suitable here. But ft 0 B approve the meaning 'remove,' 'take away'; this is a legitimate and natural development of the primary meaning, 'turn'; and it is not so certain that this is not the meaning required in Ps. 8o'0.--13'k Rd. Y-'., with many mss. of Kenn. A CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL COMMENTARY ON NAHUM INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOK OF NAHUM. § i. THE BOOK OF NAHUM. Its Contents. The first section of the book of Nahum as it now stands sets forth the avenging wrath of Yahweh (i2"10). Though manifested with reluctance, yet its exhibition against the ungodly is inevitable. Its outpouring throws the physical universe into convulsions, but Yahweh furnishes shelter from his wrath to those that trust in him. Those that oppose him are irrevocably destroyed. The second section (iu-2s) alternates between words of reproach or threatening against some unnamed foe (supposedly Nineveh) and promises of comfort and deliverance to Judah. The remainder of the book deals with one subject, viz. the approaching destruction of Nineveh. The material, however, divides itself into two sections, viz. 24"14 and 31"18. The former of these begins so abruptly as to suggest that the original beginning of the section is either lost or else embodied in i"-2s. The section as a whole gives a vivid picture of the attack upon Nineveh, the capture, the weeping of the women, the flight of the defenders and the plunder of the ...
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