The Book of Isaiah prophesied the Messiah would be a man of sorrows. “Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows” (Isaiah 53:4a). Jesus was burdened by the grief of others. Though He knew everything was about to change for the better, He cried and mourned with others be...
than Athens the Virgin. And whenMatthewapplied Isaiah's prophesy toMaryofNazareth(Matthew 1:23), by using Athena's familiar epithetπαρθενος(parthenos), nobody in his original audience would have missed the obvious call for a re-examination of the possible virtues of Greek tradition...
(nasar), meaning to be green, would at first glance tie Matthew's Nazarean prophecy to the various "branch" prophesies of the Old Testament (Isaiah 11:1, 53:2, Zechariah 3:8, 6:12), but read our article on the name Nazareth for a discussion of the problems of this particular ...
John the Baptist (the last Old Testament prophet) referred to Jesus as “The Lamb of God” (John 1:29,36).Lamb of Godis an Old Testament phrase referring to the sacrifices (Leviticus 4:32-35.Isaiah 53:4-12). Sin is a separator between man and our holy God, and in the Old Testam...
This cannot be reproduced exactly in English, which has a very different alphabet of twenty-six letters.55 Another example is the formal verbal play in Isaiah 5:7, where the prophet says that God looked for "justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard cries of distress" (NIV)...
The seraphim were also thought of as winged, and in Isaiah's vision they were stationed above the Lord's throne (6:1-2). They seemed to possess a human figure, and had voices, faces, and feet. According to the vision their task was to participate in singing God's praises antiphonally...
The essays in this volume focused on Jeremiah, Ruth, Susanna and the Elders, and family identity in Isaiah, Ruth, Esther, Judith, and Ezekiel. I think the fact that the essays were together in a volume representing women’s exilic experiences in the Hebrew Bible was as important as the ...