Flat WaterFE | The Vision Of Isaiah @FlatWaterFE | Uploaded October 2016 | Updated October 2024, 28 minutes ago.
A prophecy of the end times, the destruction or folding down of the tent of the firmamental tabernacle and the angelic forces that maintain the works of the earth. This text has incredible prophecy in it about the end times.
The text exists as a whole in three Ge'ez manuscripts of around the 15th-18th centuries, but fragments have also survived in Greek, Coptic, Latin, and Old Church Slavonic. All three component texts appear to have been in Greek, and it is possible that the "Martyrdom of Isaiah" derives from a Hebrew or Aramaic original. Comparison of the various translations suggests that two different recensions of the Greek original must have existed; one on which the Ethiopic and one of the Latin versions were based, and the other on which the Slavonic and the other Latin version were based. Fragments of both Greek versions have survived. The work's current title is derived from the title used in the Ethiopic manuscripts ('Ergata Īsāyèyās – "The Ascension of Isaiah"). In antiquity, Epiphanius also referred to it by this title (in Greek: Τὸ Αναβατικὸν Ἡσαΐου), as did Jerome (in Latin: Ascensio Isaiæ).
According to the theory of R. H. Charles, the text incorporates three distinct sections, each once a separate work that is a single compilation here. Of these, one, the first, appears to have been written by a Jewish author, and the other two by Christians. According to this author, The Martyrdom consists of:
Ch. i. 1-2a, 6b-13a; ii. 1-iii. 12; v. 1b-14.
Ch. iii. 13b-iv. 18 are to be counted as a separate work, added by the first editor of the entire work, probably before the "Greek Legend" and the Latin translation were written.
The Vision comprises ch. vi. 1-xi. 40, ch. xi. 2-22 being thus an integral part of this section.
Editorial additions are: ch. i. 2b-6a, 13b; ii. 9; iii. 13a; iv. 1a, 19-22; v. 1a, 15-16; xi. 41-43.
E. Norelli suggests on the contrary that the whole text, even if written in different times, is the expression of a docetic Christian prophetic group related with the group attacked by Ignatius of Antioch in his letters to the Smyrnaeans and to the Trallians. According to this scholar chapters 6-11 (the Vision) are older than chapters 1-5 (which represent a later pessimistic introduction to the original Vision), the date of composition is the end of the 1st century AD, and the narrative of Mary's pregnancy (AI 11:2-5) is independent from the Gospel of Matthew. Recently, other scholars have rejected characterizing the Ascension of Isaiah as a docetic text.
Times are tough enough, and we all have to deal with the U.N., so I just haven’t felt right asking viewers for money to support the channel. If you can afford it and really want to help, here is my paypal acct: paypal.me/FWFE
If that is in anyway a problem, but you’d still like to help out, all you have to do is let one of the ads run. That’s how yt operates, if you don’t let ads play we receive no compensation.
Thank you 🙏🏼! Don’t forget to hit the like button and subscribe!
God bless you.
A prophecy of the end times, the destruction or folding down of the tent of the firmamental tabernacle and the angelic forces that maintain the works of the earth. This text has incredible prophecy in it about the end times.
The text exists as a whole in three Ge'ez manuscripts of around the 15th-18th centuries, but fragments have also survived in Greek, Coptic, Latin, and Old Church Slavonic. All three component texts appear to have been in Greek, and it is possible that the "Martyrdom of Isaiah" derives from a Hebrew or Aramaic original. Comparison of the various translations suggests that two different recensions of the Greek original must have existed; one on which the Ethiopic and one of the Latin versions were based, and the other on which the Slavonic and the other Latin version were based. Fragments of both Greek versions have survived. The work's current title is derived from the title used in the Ethiopic manuscripts ('Ergata Īsāyèyās – "The Ascension of Isaiah"). In antiquity, Epiphanius also referred to it by this title (in Greek: Τὸ Αναβατικὸν Ἡσαΐου), as did Jerome (in Latin: Ascensio Isaiæ).
According to the theory of R. H. Charles, the text incorporates three distinct sections, each once a separate work that is a single compilation here. Of these, one, the first, appears to have been written by a Jewish author, and the other two by Christians. According to this author, The Martyrdom consists of:
Ch. i. 1-2a, 6b-13a; ii. 1-iii. 12; v. 1b-14.
Ch. iii. 13b-iv. 18 are to be counted as a separate work, added by the first editor of the entire work, probably before the "Greek Legend" and the Latin translation were written.
The Vision comprises ch. vi. 1-xi. 40, ch. xi. 2-22 being thus an integral part of this section.
Editorial additions are: ch. i. 2b-6a, 13b; ii. 9; iii. 13a; iv. 1a, 19-22; v. 1a, 15-16; xi. 41-43.
E. Norelli suggests on the contrary that the whole text, even if written in different times, is the expression of a docetic Christian prophetic group related with the group attacked by Ignatius of Antioch in his letters to the Smyrnaeans and to the Trallians. According to this scholar chapters 6-11 (the Vision) are older than chapters 1-5 (which represent a later pessimistic introduction to the original Vision), the date of composition is the end of the 1st century AD, and the narrative of Mary's pregnancy (AI 11:2-5) is independent from the Gospel of Matthew. Recently, other scholars have rejected characterizing the Ascension of Isaiah as a docetic text.
Times are tough enough, and we all have to deal with the U.N., so I just haven’t felt right asking viewers for money to support the channel. If you can afford it and really want to help, here is my paypal acct: paypal.me/FWFE
If that is in anyway a problem, but you’d still like to help out, all you have to do is let one of the ads run. That’s how yt operates, if you don’t let ads play we receive no compensation.
Thank you 🙏🏼! Don’t forget to hit the like button and subscribe!
God bless you.
