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Your current browser may not support copying via this button. Jewish Studies. Table of Contents. The story of him who "by vileness made the great refusal" to apply Dante's well-known words , who might have led his people to social and personal reformation, by the wise counsel of the prophet, is recorded in ch. Isaiah was no statesman, and yet the advice which he gave the king was as good from a political as from a religious point of view. For why should Ahaz pay Assyria for doing work whichan enlightened regard for its own interest would certainly impel it to perform?
Why should he take the silver and gold in the Temple and in the palace, and send it as tribute to the Assyrian king? It is to be noted that in ch. Isaiah's wife is called "the prophetess. His children, too, are "signs and omens" of divine appointment; and one may conjecture that if Isaiah ever pictured the worst disaster coming to Jerusalem, he saw himself and his family, like Lot of old, departing in safety for some work reserved for them by God from the doomed city. From ch. No more can be said of Isaiah from direct documentary information.
His words are his true biography. In them is seen the stern, unbending nature of the man, who loved his people much, but his God more. Isaiah has all the characteristics of a classic writer—terseness, picturesqueness, and originality. But was he also a poet? It is hard to think so. Could such a man condescend to the arts necessary to the very existence of poetry? But the narration in which it is placed is thought by many critics to be late, and the phraseology of the poem itself seems to point away from Isaiah.
On the late tradition of the martyrdom of Isaiah in the reign of Manasseh see Isaiah, Ascension of. His father was a prophet and the brother of King Amaziah Meg.
While Isaiah, says the Midrash, was walking up and down in his study he heard God saying, "Whom shall I send? Isaiah accepted the mission, and was the most forbearing, as well as the most ardent patriot, among the Prophets, always defending Israel and imploring forgiveness for its sins. He was therefore distinguished from all other prophets in that he received his communications directly from God and not through an intermediary ib. When Isaiah said, "I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips" vi.
In the order of greatness Isaiah is placed immediately after Moses by the Rabbis; in some respects Isaiah surpasses even Moses, for he reduced the commandments to six: honesty in dealing; sincerity in speech; refusal of illicit gain; absence of corruption; aversion for bloody deeds; contempt for evil Mak.
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