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“Isaiah 40–55 contains some of the best-known, most-cherished, and theologically significant texts in the Bible … Isaiah 40–55 provides us with the vocabulary and conceptual framework to understand the nature and purpose of the Father’s mission in and through his Son, Jesus, with the Spirit” (from the introduction). Dr. Lessing’s scholarly expertise and decades of service as a seminary professor...

acted as a blindfold to Yahweh’s “new thing” (43:19). The Judeans enshrined the past to the point that it limited what they thought Yahweh could do in the future. The former days can instruct, but they can also enslave. If faith becomes ossified, it does little good. “Remembrance can serve hope, but it [also] can replace it.”51 The goal is for Israel not merely to confess, “As surely as Yahweh lives, who brought us out of Egypt” but also, “As surely as Yahweh lives, who brought the descendants of
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