history with his people. Chapter 6 is, above all, about a wholly different dimension of history: God’s time as it enters into Israel’s life according to a divine purpose. Chapters 2–4 had highlighted two different understandings of the administration of the world—the one controlled by human activity, the other according to God’s rule. Chapter 6 now offers a massive, new theological grounding for this sharp polarity. Isaiah “saw the Lord.” The description of what then follows shows clearly the use
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