Excerpt from Isaiah, a New Translation, Vol. 2: With a Preliminary Dissertation, and Notes Critical, Philological, and Explanatory Isaiah exercifed the Pro'phetical Office during along peried of time, if he lived to the reign of Manafieh; for the loweit computation, beginning from the year in which Uzziah died, When fome fuppofe him to have received his firft appointment to that office, brings it to 61 years. But the Tra dition of the Jews, that he was put to death by Ma naffeh, is very uncertain; and one of theixj principal Rabbins (aben Ezra, Com. In If; 1; feerhs ra ther to think, that he died before Hezekiah; Which is indeed more probable. It is however certain, that he lived at leaf't to the 15th or 16th year of Heze' kiah: this makes the leafi pofiible term of the dura tion of his prophetical othee about years; The time of the delivery of fome of his Prophecies is either expreflly marked, or fufficiently clear from the hif tory, to which they relate that of a few others may With fome probability be deduced from internal marks; from exprefiions, defcriptions, and circum fiances interwoven. It may therefore be of fame ufe in this refpeet, and for the better underftanding of his Prophecies in general, to give here a fummary View of the hiftory of his time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.