Proof of Meter DEBATE (and scholar intransigence): Robert Lowth
Channel: Brain Outy
Date: 2016-12-25

Watch in HD.  Way back in the 1700's, there was a 'bishop' named Robert Lowth.  He was certain that Bible meter was used even in PROPHECY (duh), but the hoary heads who deemed it unscholarly to count syllables, disagreed.. then and ever since.

So this video is on how Lowth, instead of actually COUNTING the syllables to prove his point for Isaiah 53, where it demonstrably is intended to be prophetic.. he fizzles out under pressure to the hoary heads.

Oh well.

It's his Isaiah to Malachi book, which is on Disk 2 of the '250 Rare Bibles' CD you can buy from gdixierose, http://www.ebay.com/usr/gdixierose?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2754

I don't know if you can get it online, downloadable.  I can't find it.  Closest is a 1836 edition, https://books.google.com/books?id=dSZdAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA103&lpg=PA103
Book doesn't say when Lowth contributed.  He died in 1787.  If you download the pdf, its page 422 has notes for the translation.  Not helpful, really, but shows he didn't really pay attention to syllable counts, thereby shooting down the most important proof he was right.

Oh well.  He's vindicated now. Witness God's definition of 'poetry': symmetrically ORCHESTRATING THE TIME from 1st to Last David, a 'map' of Isaiah 53's meter: http://www.brainout.net/Isa53Map.pdf

Awesome how those paragraphs (which Isaiah halved from Psalm 90, lol).. pair up.  MATING, get it?  Now note how the CONTENT of the paired paragraphs interrelates antiphonally.  Yeah, that's a whole lot more sophisticated than spondees and strophes, huh.

To see what a difference it makes to count the syllables, here's a whole channel I made on Isaiah 53, https://vimeo.com/channels/isaiah53

Perfection of its meter is shown briefly then more at leisure, starting here: https://vimeo.com/channels/isaiah53/79997259

Next video will have a copy of the longer video showing the ANNUAL PROPHECY of Christ's Birth to the EXACT YEAR He was born and was SCHEDULED to die.  He ends up dying seven years early, which is why CHURCH was inserted, and we cannot predict our Rapture, as the video's end, will show (next video after this one).

That was the first passage in which I found the meter.  Didn't know of Lowth, back then.  Found out about the debate on mater afterwards, which is summed up here with links to the scholars then and now debating, http://www.brainout.net/BibleHebrewMeter.htm#Debate

How I learned the meter is the theme of the Isaiah 53 Meter playlist, only here in Youtube (very boring videos, took me several years to learn the meter, videos originally were in bliptv then Google video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfM1vmYIG2U&list=PL8523934356BE4BDC&index=2