Robert Govett on Isaiah- or Isaiah Unfulfilled

Robert Govett

Hard cover; 467 pgs.

This exposition includes Govett’s new translation of the Hebrew text of Isaiah. It is interesting to note that he considered the Septuagint (Greek text) of the Old Testament as more trustworthy than the Hebrew, because the latter had been passed down by Jewish rabbis after the rejection of Christ.

The full title of this exposition reflects Govett’s battle against the centuries of spiritualizing or allegorizing of the prophets by the post millenialists, who interpreted much prophecy as symbolic and fulfilled already. Govett warns in his preface that the Church ought to “turn with zealously inquiring eye to the sure word of prophecy, that in the sifting that shall take place our faith fail not”, and “that his people be found wakeful and patient” awaiting the cry “The bridegroom cometh.”

Of note in the exposition itself, Govett identifies innumerable prophecies of New Testament matters, events and revelations, in nearly every chapter of Isaiah. For example, the Trinity is declared in chapter 6.

Also of special interest is his included dissertation on the "Sons of God" and "Giants" of Rephaim in Genesis 6.