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The New Israel: A Commentary on the Book of Isaiah 56–66 is unavailable, but you can change that!

“ ‘Isaiah’ provides us with a picture,” writes George A.F. Knight, “a pattern of revelation, hewn out of the facts of history.” In this book, which serves as a sequel to the author’s Servant Theology (the International Theological Commentary on Isaiah 40-55, with appropriate attention to significant critical issues. Emphasizing Israel as “a light to the nations,” Knight is concerned throughout...

But TI goes further than this in his theological reasoning. He sees the Return to be of eschatological significance—that is, as an event rooted, not first of all in history, but primarily in eternity. Because of this order of thought, TI sees this moment in history as revelation of what is in the heart of the living God. He sees the ‘resurrection’ of Israel as a historical moment from which God reveals to Israel an aspect of his purpose and plan as Saviour. Stanley Brice Frost would express this
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