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As in the other volumes of the New International Version Application Commentary, this book, a Silver Medallion award winner, helps the reader not only to understand accurately what the text of Isaiah says, but also what it means and how that meaning can apply to living in the twenty-first century. Isaiah wrestles with the realities of people who are not convicted by the truth but actually...

is fire that touches Isaiah’s lips. It is not merely that sin must be consumed in his life and that the instrument he would use to declare God’s Word must have the dross burned out of it. Rather, it is an encounter with the very person of God himself. Thus too, it is not at all surprising that Isaiah later asks, “Who of us can dwell with everlasting burning?” (Isa. 33:14; see also 10:16; 30:27). Apparently it was not a major issue to Isaiah which altar the coal came from. It may have been the incense
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