Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: serve how many exegetical embarrassments arise from the attempt to confine the application of the passage to the period of the exile or to any other not particularly indicated. The exhortation not to fear does not imply that there was danger in making the announcement, but that there might be doubt and hesitation as to its fulfilment.—Barnes thinks it necessary to prevent abuse of this text by affirming that it ' will not justify boisterous preaching, or a loud and unnatural tone of voice, alike offensive to good taste, injurious to health, and destructive of the life of the preacher.' He also infers from it that ' the glad tidings of salvation should be delivered in an animated and ardent manner; the future punishment of the wicked in a tone serious, solemn, subdued, awful.' V. 10. IjO, the Lord Jehovah will come (or is coming) in (the person of) a strong one, and his arm (is) ruling for him. Lo, his hire is with him and his wages before him. The double nsn represents the object as already appearing or in sight. Of the phrase pjn? there are several interpretations. All the ancient versions make it mean with strength; but this abstract sense of the adjective is not sustained by usage, and the same objection lies, with still greater force, against Ewald's version, in victory. Aben Ezra and Kimchi supply i; (with a strong hand); but wherever the entire phrase occurs, the noun is construed as a feminine. Jarchi makes it mean against the strong one, which Vitringa adopts and applies the phrase to Satan. But usage requires that sea, when it has this sense, should be construed with its object, either directly, or by means of the prepositions bs, bx, or b. De Dieu regards the a as pleonastic or a beth essentiee, corresponding to the French construction en roi, in (the character or per...