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Isaiah's conception of Jehovah, for instance, is itself a poetic image, the work of man's brain; and the innocent worship of it would not be idolatry, if that conception represented something friendly to human happiness and to human art. The question merely is whether the sculptor's image or the prophet's stands for the greater interest and is a more adequate symbol for the good.
Of course, I do not mean popular achievement achievement as men usually count achievement, or success as men ordinarily rate success. So measured, every great man's life has been a dismal failure. Paul's life was not a popular success, nor was Isaiah's, nor was Augustine's, nor was Savanarola's, nor was Socrates', nor was Christ's life a popular success.
We have here the closing words of Isaiah's prophecy. It has been steadily rising, and now it has reached the summit.
The parable distinctly alludes to Isaiah's words, and almost reproduces them. Matthew's version enlarges on details of the appliances provided by the owner, which makes the parallel with Isaiah still more noticeable. But Luke summarises these into the simple 'planted. That covers the whole ground.
I've got business with the children of Israel." The Fieldmouse money was beginning to pour into the ring, and the block men were busy with their erasers. Each time the mare's price went down, Isaiah's price went up a little. Old Man Curry drew out a tattered roll of currency and went from booth to booth, betting on his horse at four to one. "Think you've got a chance to-day, old man?"
Her looks attracted Barbara's attention and the young lady asked if she were not feeling well. Mary replied that she was not, and although it was not serious please might she be permitted to go home at once? She was sent home in the automobile and when she reached her own room her first act was to find and open Isaiah's letter which had arrived that afternoon.
I wish I could believe, wholly and unreservedly, that this class, always preponderant in the world, could be changed, diminished done away with in a brighter future! I can, at least, sympathize with Isaiah's wrath. "What you said of the longing, the yearning which exists to-day amongst the inarticulate millions moved me most and of the place of art in religion, to express that yearning.
The doer of iniquity is 'laden with iniquity. Notice, too, how the awful entail of evil from parents to children is adduced shall we say as aggravating, or as lessening, the guilt of each generation? Isaiah's contemporaries are 'a seed of evil-doers, spring from such, and in their turn are 'children that are corrupters. The fatal bias becomes stronger as it passes down.
His first reported word after that break was, "I was afraid." That sense of fear a horrid, haunting, nightmare thing has affected all his thinking and planning and every-day speech. No phrase is oftener on man's tongue than "I'm afraid." Isaiah's classic utterance about ears and eyes has a counterpart equally classic from Paul's pen, about the effect of sin upon man's mental processes.
How, then, is the evangelist justified in regarding them as prophetic, and in looking on Christ's flight as their fulfilment? The answer is to be found in that analogy between the national and the personal Israel which runs through all the Old Testament, and reaches its greatest clearness in the second part of Isaiah's prophecies.
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