is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.’ As we saw in Chapter 5, the problem with using Isaiah 52:5 in this way is that the original text was not condemning Israel for her sin but expressing compassion for her piteous state. For Berkley, the solution is that Isaiah 52:5 is not a ‘reference text’ in the way that the above passages are. It is Ezekiel 36 that tells Paul that God’s name is being profaned because of Jewish sin, and the verbal connections with the Jeremiah passages complete his