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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...

king. Thus through the Servant, who is himself the “covenant for the people” (49:8; cf. 42:6), repentant believers become “servants” endowed with “righteousness” (54:17). God adds grace upon grace by incorporating them into the everlasting covenant established by David’s greater Son.15 At the Last Supper, when Jesus says to his disciples in the Upper Room that he will not drink wine again until he drinks it anew in the Father’s kingdom (Mt 26:29), he may be referring to the
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