Isaiah 65:20 Explained by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Aug 9, 1883

Isaiah 65:20 Explained

By Editor

"PLEASE explain Isa. 65:20. B. R. N."

We cannot undertake to do it, because we do not think we understand it. It is confessedly an obscure passage. "The Age-to-Come" believers used to claim it as proof on some phases of their theory; but after a long and very close examination of it, Eld. D. P. Hall, the most critical advocate of that theory with whom we ever met, confessed to us that he could not use it as he had been accustomed to use it.

We have seen several pretended "translations" of the text, made to relieve it of its obscurity, but by an examination of the original we found they were not translations at all, but rather free renderings; they but give the opinions of the writers as to what it means, not the exact translation of what the Hebrew says. If any of our correspondents have light on it we shall be glad to receive it.