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Explanation of Isaiah’s Prophecy of the Virgin’s Childbearing and of Psalm 21

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

This book is in French.

Three letters on Isaiah’s prophecy (“Behold, a virgin shall conceive”) against the Jewish and Socinian interpretation, and the literal explanation of Psalm 21 on the Passion and the abandonment of Christ, with a translation from the Hebrew and the Septuagint. Lachat edition (1862).

Contents

Source: Typed transcription of volume II, pages 001, 003, 004. The transcription loses the œ ligature; it is restored by a dictionary pass (ambiguous forms such as sœur/sur, mœurs/murs, vœu/vu decided from the Lachat OCR). Page-bottom notes of the Lachat edition are kept as footnotes.