The Book of Isaiah - CCS by Robert Govett and published by Classics.
It was Govett primarily intention of this book to put forth a new commentary with notes critical and explanatory; but finding that so many had anticipated him in this, and that though the text should be perfect as it came from the prophet's pen, it might still leave his oracles little understood, giving full scope to the work of an interpreter, he was induced to offer an Exposition.
To this he was led by the belief that ancient and modern writers had combined to furnish him with a key to its just explanation.
Certain it is that the Exposition now offered does not wittingly omit to face any difficulty, and the reader is requested to compare the Commentary with the text chapter by chapter as he proceeds.
The author urges that the reader should not be startled or throw aside the book if he finds interpretations given which differ greatly from those of modern commentators, but suffer the whole of its bearings to be seen.
For if the author be not mistaken, he has kept throughout to the principles laid down in the commencement; the chief of which is that the true key of Scripture prophecy is LITERALLY of interpretation, restrained, by common sense from running into absurdity, such as attributing passions to inanimate things.
