Isaiah Chapter 61 Notes
Posted by lehunt on March 7, 2015
Chapter Sixty-one:
v. 1: Compare this servant of God with the one described in 42:3.
Pronoun references and verb tenses are often fluid in Isaiah, and this chapter is a good example of the fluid pronoun references. “I” here is distinct from “the LORD God” and refers to an anointed person (i.e., to a prophet, priest, king or someone who holds a combination of these three offices), but in v. 8 “I” refers to God. The speakers also address the Jews sometimes in the second person (vs. 5-6) and sometimes they refer to them in the third person (vs. 1-4).
As for who the servant, the anointed one of vs. 1-4 is, I believe it is Jesus based on the testimony of Jesus himself (Luke 4:21). Even if one believes Jesus was mistaken in applying the passage to himself, it seems as though the Jewish community of Jesus’s day accepted this passage as a reference to the Messiah; otherwise, they would not have been amazed at him for applying it to himself.
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Isaiah Chapter 61 Notes
Posted by lehunt on March 7, 2015
Chapter Sixty-one:
v. 1: Compare this servant of God with the one described in 42:3.
Pronoun references and verb tenses are often fluid in Isaiah, and this chapter is a good example of the fluid pronoun references. “I” here is distinct from “the LORD God” and refers to an anointed person (i.e., to a prophet, priest, king or someone who holds a combination of these three offices), but in v. 8 “I” refers to God. The speakers also address the Jews sometimes in the second person (vs. 5-6) and sometimes they refer to them in the third person (vs. 1-4).
As for who the servant, the anointed one of vs. 1-4 is, I believe it is Jesus based on the testimony of Jesus himself (Luke 4:21). Even if one believes Jesus was mistaken in applying the passage to himself, it seems as though the Jewish community of Jesus’s day accepted this passage as a reference to the Messiah; otherwise, they would not have been amazed at him for applying it to himself.
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This entry was posted on March 7, 2015 at 6:11 pm and is filed under Bible, Isaiah, Old Testament. Tagged: Bible study, Christ, Christianity, Commentary on Isaiah 61, God, Israel, Jesus, Larry Hunt, Larry Hunt Bible Commentary, Messiah in Isaiah, Online Bible commentary, the Messiah. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.