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Drawing on a lifetime of study and teaching the book, J. Alec Motyer presents a landmark, single-volume commentary on the prophecy of Isaiah. He emphasizes the grammatical, historical, structural, literary, and theological dimensions of the text, and pays particular attention to three central and recurring themes: the messianic hope, the motif of the city, and the theology of the Holy One of...

1. Theme A single theme binds the first thirty-seven chapters of Isaiah: the king who reigns in Zion. It is a complex theme, full of tensions. Sometimes the king is the Lord himself (6:1, 5), sometimes he is the current king of the house of David (7:1–2) and sometimes he is the king who is yet to come (9:6–7). On the whole, however, the future dominates the present, yet even here the tension continues, for at one time the vision is of the Lord’s coming reign (24:23) and at another it is of a king
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