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-THE BOOK OF ISAIAH-
Old Testament Studies
Isaiah and Us
We do not come as strangers
to the prophecy of Isaiah. One of the best-known and most-loved
books of the Bible. Passages sung in Handel's Messiah: 40:1-5,
(the whole chapter was an early inspiration to me), 7:14,
40:9, 60:2-3, 9:2, 6, 35:56, 53:3-6, 8, 52:7. Other passages
that have been significant to me: 55, 49:5-6, 28:23-29, 62:6-7.
Isaiah and Jesus
Apart from Isaiah being
one of the most quoted books in the New Testament, there
is a most significant statement in John 12:37-41. This refers
not just to Isaiah's vision in ch. 6, but to the whole book.
Hence Isaiah has been called 'the Old Testament evangel (gospel
or good tidings)'. |
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