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SEPTEMBER 19
The best interpretation views 2 Corinthians as a unified letter, with chapters 1–9 addressed to
the repentant majority (2:6) and chapters 10–13 to the minority still influenced by the false teach-
ers.The support for this view is that: 1) there is no historical evidence (from Greek manuscripts, the
writings of the church fathers, or early translations) that chapters 10–13 ever circulated as a sepa-
rate letter—all Greek manuscripts have them following chapters 1–9; 2) the differences in tone
between chapters 10–13 and 1–9 have been exaggerated (11:11; 12:14 with 6:11; 7:2); and 3) chap-
ters 10–13 form the logical conclusion to chapters 1–9, as Paul prepared the Corinthians for his
promised visit (1:15,16; 2:1–3).

Or as when a thirsty man dreams,
September 19 And look—he drinks;
But he awakes, and indeed he is faint,
And his soul still craves:
So the multitude of all the nations
Isaiah 29:1–24
shall be,
29 “Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city Who fight against Mount Zion.”
where David dwelt!
9 Pause and wonder!
Add year to year; Blind yourselves and be blind!
Let feasts come around.
2 Yet I will distress Ariel; They are drunk, but not with wine;
There shall be heaviness and sorrow, They stagger, but not with intoxicating
drink.
And it shall be to Me as Ariel.
10 For the LORD has poured out on you
3 I will encamp against you all around,
I will lay siege against you with a The spirit of deep sleep,
And has closed your eyes, namely, the
mound,
prophets;
And I will raise siegeworks against And He has covered your heads,
you.
4 You shall be brought down, namely, the seers.
You shall speak out of the ground;
Your speech shall be low, out of the
dust;
Your voice shall be like a medium’s, out 29:10 spirit of deep sleep. Because Israel
of the ground; refused to hear her true prophets initially,their
And your speech shall whisper out of ability to hear has been impaired. God gave
the dust. them up judicially to their own hardness of
heart.Paul applied this verse specifically to the
5 “Moreover the multitude of your foes general condition of Israel’s blindness during
Shall be like fine dust, the age of the church (Rom.11:8).prophets…
And the multitude of the terrible ones seers. False prophets and seers have blinded
Like chaff that passes away; their listeners with their false prophecies.
Yes, it shall be in an instant, suddenly.
6 You will be punished by the LORD of 29:13 hearts far from Me. Empty ritualism
hosts does not bring closeness to God. Jesus used
this verse to describe the Judaism of His day
With thunder and earthquake and (Matt. 15:7–9; Mark 7:6,7).
great noise,
With storm and tempest
11 The whole vision has become to you like
And the flame of devouring fire.
7 the words of a book that is sealed, which men
The multitude of all the nations who
fight against Ariel, deliver to one who is literate, saying, “Read
Even all who fight against her and her this, please.”
fortress, And he says, “I cannot, for it is sealed.”
12 Then the book is delivered to one who is
And distress her,
Shall be as a dream of a night vision. illiterate, saying, “Read this, please.”
8 It shall even be as when a hungry man And he says, “I am not literate.”
13 Therefore the Lord said:
dreams,
And look—he eats; “Inasmuch as these people draw near
But he awakes, and his soul is still empty; with their mouths
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