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A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Isaiah 1–27 is unavailable, but you can change that!

For over one hundred years, the International Critical Commentary series has held a special place among works on the Bible. It has sought to bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis—linguistic and textual no less than archaeological, historical, literary and theological—with a level of comprehension and quality of scholarship unmatched by any other series. No attempt has been made to...

must be a miracle: “Signum autem a Deo, nisi novitas aliqua monstruosa fuisset, signum non videretur” (Tert. Adv. Jud. 9); but the argument rests on a misconception of what the term אות, sign, necessarily implies, and of the purpose of the particular sign here contemplated; Yahweh had been willing to do a miracle to convince Ahaz, but a very ordinary event may serve to remind him, when the time comes, that what His prophet predicted has come true. The miracle here, so far as there is a miracle, may
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