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The Servant of the Lord and His Servant People: Tracing a Biblical Theme through the Canon is unavailable, but you can change that!

It is often recognized that the title ‘servant’ is applied to key figures throughout the Bible, culminating in Jesus Christ. Matthew Harmon carefully traces this theme from Genesis to Revelation with the intention of seeing how earlier ‘servants’ point forward to the ultimate Servant. While this servant theme certainly is significant in its own right throughout redemptive history, it also plays a...

recalls Yahweh’s actions to deliver Israel from Egypt with a mighty hand (e.g. Exod. 3:20–21; 7:4–5; 13:3, 9, 14; 32:11; Deut. 3:24; 4:34; 5:15; 6:21; 7:8; 9:26; 26:8). At Sinai the Lord made a covenant with his people to be a kingdom of priests to display his glory to the nations (Exod. 19:5–6); here Yahweh makes the servant a covenant for the people and a light to the nations. Central to the exodus that formed Israel into a nation was God’s intention to display his glorious name and demonstrate
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