in the new things. The continuity between chapters 1–39 and 40ff. does not lie in the historical persona of Isaiah—in this Seitz is right—but rather in the word of God, faithfully proclaimed by Isaiah, which extends into the future and fulfills itself in the new things of which Isaiah had also spoken. The strongest evidence for the continuity of chapter 40 with First Isaiah is the ongoing description of the “new” in terms of an intertextual reference to the earlier corpus of his prophecy.
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