Introduction
Sec. 4. WOE ON IDOLATERS, Isaiah 56:1 to Isaiah 57:21.
This section of prophecy reaches to the end of chapter 59. The earlier prophecies concerned Isaiah’s times from Uzziah’s last years until Hezekiah’s recovery, when the prophet apparently retires from public action, and surrenders himself to the study of the prospects of the great future. His discourses on future times concern different sections of the future, though their scope of subjects extends vaguely to the latest cycles of time. These, however, are outlooks, sometimes for the occasion indefinite, but oftener limited, and developed in detail. The outlook of the preceding chapter advanced far into the gospel ages, covering generally the whole Messianic future. The prophet here (in chap. lvi) resumes an earlier section with a starting-point, as it were, in the age of John the Baptist, and specifically enjoins internal preparation for the gospel kingdom now opening.
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