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Servant Theology: A Commentary on the Book of Isaiah 40–55 is unavailable, but you can change that!

“George Knight has produced a very fluent and readable commentary on these important chapters of the book of Isaiah, which, more than any other part of the Old Testament, anticipate the Cross of Christ. By concentrating on the theological issues that are raised and by adopting a non-technical style of presentation, Knight introduces the reader to some of the leading motifs of biblical theology…...

DI now expresses this new and astonishing truth in another fine poetic line. In it he brings to a head his promise to tell us about the ‘new thing’ that God was going to do in and through his servant people. Literally he says ‘From the travail of his soul, his nephesh, he shall see—he shall be satisfied’. The LXX and the DSSI both help us here. They have both preserved the word ‘light’ after ‘see’. Thus they have given us a still greater insight into the meaning of the new thing. Right in the
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