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The Lord is Savior: Faith in National Crisis: A Commentary on the Book of Isaiah 1–39 is unavailable, but you can change that!

This commentary presents an Indonesian theologian’s contemporary interpretation of Isaiah 1-39. According to S. H. Widyapranawa, in Isaiah we see the dynamics of faith in a turbulent world and we hear the prophetic admonition to uphold faith in the Lord and to oppose secularism, false prophecies, and sinful cultic practices. Indeed, this teaching from the eighth century B.C. is of paramount...

(2) The divine nature of the son is clearly expressed in the title Mighty God. He is pictured as a victorious hero, defeating all enemies. This aspect of his person is inseparable from the preceding one through a correlation of wisdom, courage, and power. He has a tremendous task to face and a fierce battle to fight. But the term “mighty God” needs adjustment to our picturing of him in English. Throughout the OT Israel’s God is known as elohim, a plural term. What we have here, however, is el, a
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