02.23. The Prophet Isaiah

23. THE PROPHET ISAIAH uttered some of the most comprehensive and glorious of all the statements of this doctrine ever framed by human lips or pen.

"He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces" (Isaiah 25:8).

If we have any doubt whether this teaches universal deliverance from death and sorrow, in other words, whether the prophet inculcates universal life, and happiness, we have but to turn to 1 Corinthians 15:1-58, where Paul quotes it, and applies it to the final resurrection, so that if Paul has not made a mistake, Isaiah, in this language teaches the restitution of all things to God.