ISAIAH, THE ASCENSION OF

ISAIAH, THE ASCENSION OF
   an apocryphal book giving an incoherent account of the martyrdom of Isaiah, and a vision he had under the reign of Hezekiah, apparently the origin of the tradition in Heb. xi. 37, about the prophet having been "sawn asunder."

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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