The Fundamentals - 1917: Vol.1

248 The Fundamentals tegration of the Book of Isaiah. Only a few examples need be given by way of illustration. (1) To one, "the conversion of the heathen" lay quite q b u ey en on tl d y t I h s e a. h 2 o : r 2 iz -4 on an o d f a a l n l y si e m ig il h a t r h- p c a e s n s t a u g r e y s p s r h o o p u h ld et, be an r d ele c g o a n t s e e d to a subsequent age. (2) To another, "the picture of universal peace" in Isa. 11 :1-9 is a symptom of late date, and therefore this section, and kindred ones must be deleted. (3) To another, the thought of "universal judgment" upon "the whole earth" in chapter 14 :26 quite transcends Isaiah's range of thought. v te a r i s l ( e (5) Even to those who are considered moderates the poetic character of a passage like chapter 12 and the references to a return from captivity as in 1 1 :11-16, and the promises and consolations such as are found in chapter 33, are cited as grounds for assi ing these and kindred passages to a much later age. Radicals gn deny in toto the existence of Messianic passages among Isaiah's own predictions. But, to deny to Isaiah of the eighth century all catholicity of grace, all universalism of salvation or judgment, every highly developed Messianic ideal, every rich note of promise and comfort, all sublime faith in the sacrosanct character of Zion, as some do, is unwarrantably to create a new Isaiah of greatly reduced proportions, a mere preacher of righteousness, a statesman of not very optimistic vein, and the exponent of a s c a o g ld es et w h h ic i a c l h r a e r li e gi a o c n tu w al i l t y ho a u s t cr t i h b e ed w t a o rm th t e h p a r n o d p g h l e o t w of of th t e he ei m gh e t s h century. THE WRITER'S PERSONAL ATTITUDE men M ta o l re po a s n tu d la m te o s re of th m e u w ch rit c e r r it i i s cis p m ers a u r a e de u d ns t o h u a n t d t , h a e n f d un th da a t 4 2 d 4 ) i - n 27 T Is o r r e a p s e t r l i e l o l s n e a n ly n t s o a t a f h t e e p r r , h a E t s h z e e i f p el

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