The Ascension of Isaiah: English Translation

by Robert Henry Charles

Publisher:

A & C Black

, 1900

Overview

The Ascension of Isaiah is a composite work of both Jewish and Christian origin. This volume was translated from the Ethiopic version, the Greek fragment, the Latin versions, and the Latin translation of the Slavonic version. R. H. Charles mainly focuses on the vision of Isaiah and the testament of Hezekiah. This text reveals the first-century beliefs of the doctrines of Trinity, of Incarnation, and of the Seven Heavens.

Contents

Top Highlights

“*I* was (again) transformed and became like an angel” (Page 66)

“These garments many from that world will receive, believing in the words of That One, ⸢who shall be named⸣ as I told thee, ⸢and they will observe those things, and believe in them, and believe in His cross: for them are *these* laid up⸣.’” (Page 65)

“And thou wilt return into thy garment (of the flesh) until thy days are completed” (Page 81)

“which we see has been upon Him from the sixth heaven” (Page 79)

“For above all the heavens and their angels has thy throne been placed, and thy garments and thy crown which thou shalt see.’” (Page 51)

Product Details

• Title: The Ascension of Isaiah: English Translation
• Author: Robert Henry Charles
• Publisher: A & C Black
• Print Publication Date: 1900
• Logos Release Date: 2018
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Ascension of Isaiah › English Translation; Isaiah (Biblical prophet)
• Resource ID: LLS:ASCENSIONISAENGTRANS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-12-19T23:39:25Z

About Robert Henry Charles

R. H. Charles (1865–1943) is recognized as one of the leading figures in Enoch scholarship, and his masterly translation remains the standard edition of the text in English. An authority on apocalyptic literature, he became canon at Westminster Abbey in 1913 and an archdeacon in 1919. Charles is also the author of A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Revelation of St. John, vols. 1 and 2, and The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament.