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Leupold Old Testament Commentaries: Isaiah is unavailable, but you can change that!

Originally published in two volumes, Leupold’s commentary begins with a nearly fifty page introduction covering topics as diverse as the historical situation at the time of Isaiah, biographical information on the prophet, a discussion of the current thoughts on authorship, Isaiah’s theology, and Isaiah’s prophecies in the light of the Dead Sea Scrolls. It is in the area of illuminating the...

by the fact that it is said: “the government shall be upon his shoulder.” “Shoulder” may here involve a reference to the golden chain that hangs around the neck of, and lies upon the shoulder of, the great ruler as a symbol of authority. And now come the four famous names. The parallelism requires that they be four compounds, as it were, compound names because the unique dignity of this deliverer cannot be covered by single names; and four of them because no one name can comprehend the multitude
Volume 1, Page 185