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The prophet Isaiah’s words in Isaiah 53 are so valued that Martin Luther once said that they “ought to be written on parchment of gold and lettered in diamonds.” Timothy J. E. Cross’s The Gospel According to Isaiah: A Devotional Commentary on Isaiah 53 will help you understand why. Written more than 800 years before the birth of Christ, Isaiah 53 actually contains one of the clearest views of the...

So will He sprinkle many nations … (Isaiah 52:15 KJV). Whilst the translation of the above verse as ‘sprinkle’ is disputed, it is not illegitimate. Indeed, the New Bible Commentary Revised states ‘Sprinkle’ … is not indefensible … (but) would also suit the context well with its implications of sacrificial cleansing …’ (p. 618). ‘Sprinkle’ then, in the context of Isaiah’s famous fifty third chapter, refers to a sacrificial cleansing of the sinner—a cleansing which makes us fit for
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