... As for Isaiah, the question is indifferent to the issue whether some of Isaiah´s words are prophecies ex eventu (spoken after the event). The answer sought is whether the writer wanted to apply the words to the future (if he wrote them after the event, he formed them as if they were written before the event). Thus, the time of writing is irrelevant for the answer.Rolf, you seem to accept that an author can write an ex eventu prophecy as if it were future when in fact the events are past, in other words from a past deictic viewpoint, thus cancelling the uncancellable future semantic meaning components of future tenses. Do you not accept that an author can write genuiine predictive prophecy, or forecasts or speculation about the future, in the past tense from a future deictic viewpoint, thus cancelling the past semantic meaning components of past tenses?
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