Introduction
This book
of the Bible is called, in the New Testament, the book of the words of
Esaias the prophet, in Luke 3:4 with Esaias transliterated from the Greek rendering
of Isaiah, sometimes only as, Esaias the prophet, or, the prophet
Esaias, in Acts 8: 28,30, and the book of the prophet Esaias in Luke
4:17. John Gill wrote that it was listed first of the prophets even
though it was written in time after some of the later prophets because Isaiah
was the most important of the prophets as the early church “father”, Jerome,
noted that Isaiah did not only the work of a prophet but of an evangelist. Jerome
noted that Isaiah prophesied often of Christ. Others have noted Isaiah’s
looking forward to the millennial reign of Christ and eternity itself. Eusebius
called him the greatest of prophets. Wolfgang Musculus noted that, outside of
the Psalms, Isaiah was the most quoted book of the Old Testament in the New. There
are more direct prophecies of Christ here than anywhere else in the Old
Testament, or at least more clearly expressed.
Isaiah prophesied,
authorities say, in the 7th and 8th centuries for a
period of 64 years. I am dismissing the modernist, and I might add skeptic’s,
view that there were two Isaiahs or that Isaiah was penned by two people, as
being simply an expression of contempt for the Bible. One person, the prophet
Isaiah, wrote Isaiah. I’ll explain why I believe that later. Certain tradition
has it that he was executed by being placed in a tree log and sawn in half at
the order of King Manasseh. We really have no idea what happened to him but we
will see him in eternity.
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