Post by Lee on Jun 14, 2014 3:30:23 GMT
Isa 37:29 Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
The allusion to the hook in the nose is illustrated from Assyrian sculptures of captives thus dishonoured. The fulfilment of the prophecy is notorious. An angel destroyed the Assyrian army in a night, and Sennacherib returned to Nineveh, where his own sons slew him in the presence of his god. Rationalising critics exhaust their ingenuity in the attempt to explain the military disaster on natural principles.; but it is a failure. A candid confession of unbelief and refraining from meddling, would be infinitely more dignified and respectable than perverting the record of a miracle into that of an “old wives’ fable.”
Robert Roberts, & Walker, C. C. (1907). The Ministry of the Prophets: Isaiah p520–521
There will be another nation soon to have a hook in his nose, pulling it down to a similar battle, in which we hopefully will be first hand witnesses!
The allusion to the hook in the nose is illustrated from Assyrian sculptures of captives thus dishonoured. The fulfilment of the prophecy is notorious. An angel destroyed the Assyrian army in a night, and Sennacherib returned to Nineveh, where his own sons slew him in the presence of his god. Rationalising critics exhaust their ingenuity in the attempt to explain the military disaster on natural principles.; but it is a failure. A candid confession of unbelief and refraining from meddling, would be infinitely more dignified and respectable than perverting the record of a miracle into that of an “old wives’ fable.”
Robert Roberts, & Walker, C. C. (1907). The Ministry of the Prophets: Isaiah p520–521
There will be another nation soon to have a hook in his nose, pulling it down to a similar battle, in which we hopefully will be first hand witnesses!